Dr. Eli Sheff is an Educational Consultant and Expert Witness Serving Sexual and Gender Minorities.
Image: two stick figures with a conversation bubble between them with an image of them in bed together My most recent blog on Psychology Today explains the importance of consent in kinky and polyamorous relationships, and how kinksters have taken the lead in creating clear guidelines for consent. It is the first time one of... Continue Reading →
Image: Screen shot of red heart surrounded by words Honesty, Trust, Respect with arrows leading in a circle My newest post on Psychology Today is the second in a series on the overlap between polyamory/consensual nonmonogamies and BDSM. It got promoted to an Essential Topic -- wahoo! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202108/3-things-kinksters-and-polyamorists-value-highly
Image: Color photograph of two people (one appears Black male and other appears white female) seated on the floor, bound back to back with rope, and a third person (appears white female) crouched before the bound male-appearing person and flogging him with a leather flogger. My new blog on Psychology Today is the first in... Continue Reading →
Image: Woman with dark braids outside looking through binoculars In the first of a two-part series, my newest blog on Psychology Today explores the foibles of unicorn hunting for heteroflexible couples who want to date women. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202009/unicorn-hunting-heteroflexible-threesomes
Image: Four pink, red, and white candy filled hearts nested inside each other. My newest blog on Psychology Today provides six tips from experts on how to maintain a happy and healthy polyamorous relationship during the ongoing pandemic.
Image: Silhouetted people with rainbow heart In my newest Psychology Today blog, the first in a series on polyamory and COVID-19, I explore the advantages and disadvantages of being polyamorous during a pandemic.
Image: Yellow flowers in the shape of the numeral four My most recent blog on Psychology Today provides four tips for people who are considering opening their monogamous relationships to additional partners. This blog is the second in a series of three for heteroflexible couples who are considering consensual nonmonogamy. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201912/when-can-opening-heteroflex-monogamous-relationship-work#_=_
Image is dark outline of butterfly filled with glowing lights In my newest blog on Psychology Today I explore the ways in which some people cultivate personal growth through consensually non-monogamous relationships.
My new post on Psychology Today looks at the ways polyamorous and other consensually non-monogamous relationships can have various kinds of fidelity -- it's not all about the sex! #article #fidelity #love #cheating #sexuality Image is of a smiling person with dark hair wearing a white t-shirt and denim shorts jumping high with outstretched arms... Continue Reading →
In my newest blog on Psychology Today, Against Compulsory (Non)Monogamy, I critique both compulsory monogamy and the new mandate in some social circles that everyone should be non-monogamous. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201812/against-compulsory-nonmonogamy. Image is black and white photo of an adult foot wearing a white sock trying to squish itself into a tiny white baby shoe with laces... Continue Reading →
Sheff’s television appearances include CNN, and the National Geographic, and she has given more than 20 radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from Radio Slovenia to National Public Radio, the Sunday London Times to the Boston Globe and Newsweek.
