Pepper Schwartz

Pepper Schwartz
Schwartz speaks at TEDx Rainier on "The Next Sexual Revolution" in 2011.
Born (1945-05-11) May 11, 1945
Chicago, Illinois, United States
EducationWashington University in St. Louis
Yale University
OccupationSociologist
Known forPublications and television appearances

Pepper Schwartz (born May 11, 1945) is an American sexologist and sociologist teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, magazines, and website columns, and is a television personality on the subject of sexuality.

Schwartz is notable for her work in the 1970s and early 1980s that culminated in the book American Couples: Money-Work-Sex, which was co-written with Philip Blumstein and surveyed lesbian couples, gay male couples and heterosexual couples.

Schwartz also serves as the Love & Relationship Expert & Ambassador for AARP and writes the column The Naked Truth.