Leonore Tiefer

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Leonore Tiefer is affiliated with the following schools: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University, University of Illinois Chicago

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#394

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According to Wikipedia, Leonore Tiefer is an American educator, researcher, therapist, and activist specializing in sexuality, and is a public critic of disease mongering as it applies to sexual life and problems. Education and career Beginning with an Experimental Psychology Ph.D. on hormones and hamsters at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, Tiefer went on to hold an academic position in physiological psychology at Colorado State University from 1969 to 1977. Responding to the challenge of the feminist movement, she left Colorado and returned to her home state of New York, where her career in New York City sexology included positions at Downstate Medical Center , Beth Israel Medical Center , and Montefiore Medical Center . Fifteen years after her Ph.D. she returned to graduate school to respecialize as a clinical psychologist with a focus on human sexuality. She completed an American Psychological Association -approved postdoctoral respecialization in clinical psychology at New York University in 1988 with a focus on sex and gender problems. While at Montefiore, she held an appointment with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Tiefer was also a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine from 1981 to 2017.

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Published Works

Sex Is Not A Natural Act And Other Essays (1994) (390)
Arriving at a “New View” of Women's Sexual Problems (2002) (188)
A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now? (2001) (177)
Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance (2006) (168)
Sexual Scripts (1979) (152)
Gonadal hormones and mating behavior in the adult golden hamster (1970) (141)
The Medicalization of Sexuality: Conceptual, Normative, and Professional Issues (2012) (117)
Beyond Dysfunction: A New View of Women's Sexual Problems (2002) (113)
In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis (1986) (108)
The Viagra Phenomenon (2006) (103)
Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Freakish or Inevitable? Analysis from Medical Marketing, Bioethics, and Feminist Theory (2008) (92)
Sexology and the pharmaceutical industry: The threat of co‐optation (2000) (91)
Historical, Scientific, Clinical and Feminist Criticisms of “The Human Sexual Response Cycle” Model (2012) (77)
THE MEDICALIZATION OF IMPOTENCE (1994) (76)
Beyond the medical model of women's sexual problems: A campaign to resist the promotion of 'female sexual dysfunction' (2002) (70)
Evaluation of first 406 patients in urology department based Center for Male Sexual Dysfunction. (1989) (66)
Accuracy of the initial history and physical examination to establish the etiology of erectile dysfunction. (1995) (60)
Why Medicalization? Introduction to the Special Issue on the Medicalization of Sex (2012) (45)
Psychological issues in diagnosis and treatment of erectile disorders. (1995) (43)
Sex is not a natural act (1994) (42)
The 'designer vagina' and the pathologisation of female genital diversity: interventions for change (2010) (42)
Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies (2012) (42)
Followup observations of operated male-to-female transsexuals. (1990) (39)
A Survey of College Women's Experiences with and Attitudes toward Pelvic Examinations (1980) (37)
Interview of wives: A necessary adjunct in the evaluation of impotence (1983) (36)
Sexual preferences in neonatally castrated male golden hamsters. (1972) (36)
Sex therapy as a humanistic enterprise (2006) (35)
Psychosocial follow-up of penile prosthesis implant patients and partners. (1988) (35)
A Brief History of the Association for Women in Psychology: 1969–1991 (1991) (32)
Evaluation of patients and partners 1 to 4 years after penile prosthesis surgery. (1988) (30)
Methods of motivating the practice of breast self-examination: a randomized trial. (1985) (29)
Three crises facing sexology (1994) (28)
A Feminist Critique of the Sexual Dysfunction Nomenclature (1988) (27)
The Emerging Global Discourse of Sexual Rights (2002) (27)
Beneath the Veneer: The Troubled Past and Future of Sexual Medicine (2007) (27)
The social construction and social effects of sex research: The sexological model of sexuality. (2000) (26)
Masturbation: Beyond caution, complacency and contradiction (1998) (26)
Copulatory behaviour of male Rattus norvegicus in a multiple-female exhaustion test. (1969) (25)
Female sexual behaviour in male golden hamsters. (1971) (23)
Taking a Biological Turn: The Push for a "Female Viagra" and the Medicalization of Women's Sexual Problems (2003) (21)
Enhancing Sexuality, A Problem-Solving Approach. Therapist Guide, by John Wincze and David Barlow (896 pages, $30.50). Client Workbook, by John Wincze and David Barlow (134 pages, $28.50). San Antonio, TX: Gray-wind Publications. (1999) (21)
Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy (1996) (20)
Prognosis: More Pharmasex (2008) (19)
Still resisting after all these years: an update on sexuo-medicalization and on the New View Campaign to challenge the medicalization of women's sexuality (2010) (17)
The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality (2005) (17)
Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation (2002) (17)
Mating in castrated male rats during combined treatment with estradiol benzoate and fluoxymesterone. (1974) (17)
Commentary on the Status of Sex Research: Feminism, Sexuality and Sexology (1992) (15)
Psychological aspects of gifts from drug companies. (2003) (15)
Missed Opportunities in the Patient-Focused Drug Development Public Meeting and Scientific Workshop on Female Sexual Dysfunction Held at the FDA, October 2014 (2015) (14)
The medicalization of women's sexuality. (2000) (14)
Female sexual dysfunction (FSD): witnessing social construction in action 1 (2003) (13)
Activism on the medicalization of sex and female genital cosmetic surgery by the New View Campaign in the United States (2010) (13)
Might Premature Ejaculation Be Organic? The Perfect Penis Takes a Giant Step Forward (1994) (13)
The New View in Activism and Academics 10 Years On (2008) (13)
The Context and Consequences of Contemporary Sex Research: A Feminist Perspective (1978) (12)
Beyond the medical model of women's sexual problems: a campaign to resist the promotion of ‘female sexual dysfunction’ (2010) (11)
Neonatal androstenedione and adult sexual behavior in golden hamsters. (1975) (11)
Critique of the DSM-III-R nosology of sexual dysfunctions. (1992) (11)
Follow-up of patients and partners experiencing penile prosthesis malfunction and corrective surgery. (1991) (11)
Restorative effect of various androgens on copulatory behavior of the male golden hamster (1973) (10)
New perspectives in sexology: From rigor (mortis) to richness 1 (1991) (10)
Gender and the organization of sexual behavior. (1995) (9)
Medicine, Morality, and the Public Management of Sexual Matters (1997) (8)
Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships (2020) (8)
Psychological Aspects of Gifts From Drug Companies—Reply (2003) (7)
Follow-up of vacuum and nonvacuum constriction devices as treatments for erectile dysfunction. (1995) (7)
VI. Biological Politics (Read: Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology (2004) (7)
Dyspareunia Is the Only Valid Sexual Dysfunction and Certainly the Only Important One (2005) (7)
II. Agreeing to Disagree: Multiple Views on Gender Laws and Transsex (2000) (6)
Apples and Oranges: “Sexual Medicine” and the Effort to Deny That Counting and Classifying Are Political Acts (2017) (6)
Problematic Endorsement of Models Describing Sexual Response of Men and Women with a Sexual Partner. (2015) (5)
Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality (2018) (5)
Misconstruing Sex Therapy’s Dilemmas: The Need for Sexualwissenschaft, Sex Education, and Primary Prevention (2009) (5)
Empirically Supported Incentive Model of Sexual Response Ignored. (2017) (4)
Viewpoint: The Medicalization of Women's Sexuality (2000) (4)
Bremelanotide and flibanserin for low sexual desire in women: the fallacy of regulatory precedent (2021) (4)
Omissions, biases, and nondisclosed conflicts of interest: is there a hidden agenda in the NAMS position statement? (2005) (4)
Introduction (2006) (4)
Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health (1994) (4)
Medicine, sexual norms, and the role of the DSM. (2014) (4)
Pleasure, Medicalization, and the Tyranny of the Natural (2018) (4)
Qualitative health research and sexual dysfunction (2004) (3)
A call to challenge the “Selling of Sickness” (2013) (3)
Feminist Activism to Challenge the New Industry of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (2019) (3)
Female sexual dysfunction is being medicalized by the pharmaceutical industry: Pro (2004) (3)
Human Sexuality: Feelings And Functions (1979) (3)
Sexual Excitement/Sexual Peace: The Place of Masturbation in Adult Relationships (1983) (2)
Response to testosterone injection study and fisher's concerns (1997) (2)
Challenging sexual naturalism, the shibboleth of sex research and popular sexology. (1998) (2)
The Mcdonaldization of Sex (2018) (2)
"Am I Normal?" The Question of Sex (2018) (2)
Doing What Comes Socio-Culturally (1995) (2)
Exposé of Pinkwashing: Couldn’t be Timelier (2013) (2)
More about sexualities activisms please, we need it! (2018) (2)
The Pink Viagra Story: We have the Drug, but What's the Disease? (2018) (1)
The Viagra AdVenture: Masculinity, media, and the performance of sexual health (2007) (1)
IV. Ahead of its Time - Even Now - Kitzinger as Cassandra: A Commentary on The Social Construction of Lesbianism (2004) (1)
Sexual Biology and the Symbolism of the Natural (2018) (1)
A Review of “The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World” (2012) (1)
In Touch. The Ladder to Sexual Satisfaction, by Beryl and Avinoam Chernik. London, Ontario: Sound Feelings, 1997, 169 pages, $16.95. (1999) (1)
My Cautionary Breast Cancer Tale (2014) (1)
DOING THE VIAGRA TANGO : DIE SEX-PILLE ALS SYMBOL UND ALS SUBSTANZ (1998) (1)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
Reply to Ira Reiss' letter: no revolution here. Response to Tiefer's commentary on the status of sex research' (1992) (0)
The Capacity for Outrage: Feminism, Humor, and Sex (2018) (0)
Six Months at the Daily News (2018) (0)
Personal narratives of Surgery: Preparation and Recovery (2012) (0)
Unpacking the popularity of a paper on feigning sexual pleasure: Consider both sexual politics and 21st-century profits (2017) (0)
In Memoriam: Frank A. Beach (1911-1988) (1989) (0)
Book Review: A New Sexual World—Not! (2018) (0)
Insights into Social Construction from Toilets, Radio Shows and Muslim Headscarves (1999) (0)
The Sexual Brain (1994) (0)
"Female Sexual Dysfunction" Alert: A New Disorder Invented for Women (2018) (0)
Sexuopharmacology:: A Fateful New Element in Sexual Scripts (2020) (0)
Sex and disease-mongering: a special case? (2006) (0)
Psychiatry Course Discussion Groups and Human Sexuality (1980) (0)
ARTICLES IN THE SPECIAL ISSUE Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies (2012) (0)
Introduction: Schover and Leiblum Call for Reform (1994) (0)
G spot on the spot (2008) (0)
Feminism, Sexism, and Sexual Harassment in Sexology (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol and Substance (2018) (0)
Book reviews (1987) (0)
Free to Be or Free to Buy (1994) (0)
Handbook of sex therapy: By Joseph LoPiccolo and Leslie LoPiccolo, Editors. New York, Plenum Press, 1978. $29.50 (1979) (0)
RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM (2002) (0)
An Activist in Sexology (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Timely encouragement for art therapists to deal frankly with sexuality. (2017) (0)
In honor of him (1988) (0)
From Niagara to Viagra: Why it is so Hard to Just Talk About Sex (2018) (0)
Still Guilty after All These Years (1994) (0)
The Bliss of Solitude (1996) (0)
Feminism, Sexism, and Sexual Harassment in Sexology (2019) (0)
Letter to the Editor (2002) (0)
Some Harms to Women of Restrictions on Sexually Related Expression (2018) (0)
You Say You Want A Revolution (1996) (0)
Letters to the editor (2001) (0)
Gender and Meaning in the Nomenclature of Sexual Dysfunctions (2018) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Long Term Follow-Up of Men with a Penile Prosthesis and Their Sexual Partners (1987) (0)
A Bibliography of 34 Counter-Narrative Sources Prepared for the FDA ‘Patient-Focused Drug Development Public Meeting and Scientific workshop on Female Sexual Dysfunction’ October 27-28, 2014 (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Book Review: Transgender children and young people: Born in your own body (2018) (0)
Book Review: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl.By John Colapinto. HarperCollins, New York, 2000, 279 pp., $35.00 (2002) (0)
Exposé of Pinkwashing: Couldn’t be Timelier (2012) (0)
Biological Politics (Read: Propaganda) is Alive and Well in Sexology (2018) (0)
Conclusion: We Need Theory, we Need Politics (2018) (0)
Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional (2008) (0)
A Review of “Sexuality, Health and Human Rights” (2010) (0)
Sexism in Sex Therapy: Whose Idea is "Sensate Focus"? (2018) (0)
Under the Double Standard (1995) (0)
Psychological aspects of gifts from drug companies. Authors' reply (2003) (0)
Book Review:Love and Love Sickness: The Science of Sex, Gender Difference, and Pair-Bonding John Money (1982) (0)

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