By Dr. Justin Lehmiller
What is a day in the life of a sex researcher like? In this interview series, I talk to some of the world’s foremost authorities on sex in order to answer this question, but also to provide a glimpse into what they’re currently working on, what the media gets wrong about sex, and what they think about some of the most pressing issues facing the field of sex research today.
For this interview, I spoke with Dr. Meredith Chivers, a psychologist at Queen’s University in Canada who specializes in research on female sexual arousal and desire. Below is the transcript of our email conversation.
Lehmiller: As a sex researcher, one of the most common questions you get asked is how you got into this line of work in the first place. So let’s start there—what is it that drew you to this field of study? What’s the story behind how you became a sex researcher?
Chivers: It all started in an undergrad course on human sexuality. (more…)