Dr. Susan Stiritz, chair of the Sexual Health and Education in the Master of Social Work program, has been conducting sex research and teaching sexuality courses for more than twenty years. Stiritz designs and teaches Brown School courses to help students fulfill the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) certification requirements. Her research centers on holistic sexuality education and developmental sexuality.

Stiritz has published papers in various peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Previously, Stiritz founded and ran a Model Cities Day Care Center, and worked as Director of Education and Training at the St. Louis Family Planning Council.

Currently, Stiritz serves on Planned Parenthood of St. Louis's Board of Directors and is a board member and president-elect of AASECT. She is also a Certified Sexuality Educator and a Certified Sexuality Education Supervisor, and she serves on faculty of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

In 2002, Stiritz was named a Washington University Distinguished Alumna. In 2013, she was honored as the AASECT Sexuality Educator of the Year. Stiritz has served as a member of Washington University's LGBT Advisory Board and was awarded Holobaugh Honors for service to and advocacy for the LGBT community in 2014.

Her many professional articles include:

"Cultural Cliteracy: The Contexts of Women's Not Coming"
"Dancing In Class: Choreographing Gendered Sexuality"
"Teaching Men's Anal Pleasure: Challenging Gender Norms With "Prostage" Education"
"Relaxing the Straight Male Anus: Decreasing Homohysteria Around Anal Eroticism"
"Sex Therapy in the Age of Viagra"
"The Joy of Sex Bureaucracy"
"Going Wild: Law and Literature and Sex"
"Celebrating Masters & Johnson's Human Sexual Response: A Washington University
Legacy in Limbo"

Contact Dr. Stiritz at sstiritz@gmail.com to access her Sex Chats and articles.