Dr. Eli Sheff is an Educational Consultant and Expert Witness Serving Sexual and Gender Minorities.
Image: Logo for Center for Positive Sexuality, words written in purple on white background Volunteer Opportunity: Director of Research The Center for Positive Sexuality (Los Angeles) is seeking a new Director of Research. This position counts as very high quality academic service to the profession and therefore may be of particular interest to a full-time... Continue Reading →
Image: O.school logo with blue O and black .school Amanda Sherker with O.school recently interviewed me about the many different ways people define and do monogamy - check it out if you are interested https://www.o.school/article/monogamous-definition Image: Two people kissing, appear to be a Black man and a Latino man.
Logo for 4th NonMonogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Econference #eNMCI2021 Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies goes online 24-26 September 2021 http://www.nmciconference.com Due to the changes and uncertainties created by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the original plan, laid out in 2019, to have the 4th NMCI in Chile was postponed, but not abandoned. In the meantime, there have... Continue Reading →
Logo reading Center for Positive Sexuality The folks at the Center for Positive Sexuality are calling for funding proposals for research on race and positive sexuality -- see details below! Image: color photo of stack of 100 dollar bills The Center for Positive Sexuality has announced a call for proposals for research on race and positive sexuality. Proposals are due September 8, 2021. Each award is for $1000.... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled to announce that the first book in the series that I (Dr. Eli Sheff) am co-editing with Dr. Richard Sprott has come out! Those of you interested in a fascinating discussion of how relationships have been evolving and what could happen next simply must read Dr. Jorge Ferrer's new book Love and... Continue Reading →
Image: Black and white photo of shadowed nude body appears female This blog comes from Pearl Arouser -- check it out! Phone sex has been around for several decades, and yet culturally, we still consider aspects of it as taboo. Strangely, people continue to stigmatize a safe, healthy way to express sexuality, but that’s the... Continue Reading →
Image: Color photo of three people who appear female, wearing backpacks and standing together outside on grassy hill with arms around each other. My colleague Dr. Justin Mogilski has collected a team of experts (including me, Dr. Eli) to study how people in polyamorous and other consensually nonmonogamous relationship mantain their multiple-partner relationships. So far... Continue Reading →
The Secure Poly Immersion, a 3-hour workshop with Jessica Fern, author of Polysecure, and Derek Hart, America’s Relationship Rebuilder, along with Lea Aella, creator of the Secure Poly Toolkit Learn more at:www.LeveledUpLove.com/WORKSHOP
Image: abstract figure seated at desk with computer with text bubble The Multi-partner Relationship Maintenance Study is seeking participants! An international team led by Dr. Justin Mogilski (and including me, Dr. Eli) is conducting research on how people sustain their multiple-partner relationships. If you are currently in one (or more) romantic and/or sexual relationship(s), please... Continue Reading →
Image: New Yorker logo in white against black background Andrew Solomon recently interviewed me for his piece in the New Yorker he entitled The Shape of Love. You can find it here http://andrewsolomon.com/articles/the-shape-of-love
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.
