Marlene Wasserman (founder of the Dr Eve brand) is a clinical sexologist, couples and sex therapist and sexual medicine consultant in private practice who specialises in cyber-infidelity. She is an award-winning author. Wasserman teaches at the UCT Medical School, and publishes in and reviews academic journals. As an international sexual rights activist, she is the regional secretary for Africa at the World Association of Sexual Health. Wasserman is a temporary adviser to the World Health Organisation. Her latest book, Cyber Infidelity: The New Seduction (Human & Rousseau), was launched on Saturday.
I feel as if I’m being asked to get naked as sharing my reading list feels quite exposing.
Top of my pile are always academic journals relating to sexual medicine, sex and relationship therapy.
My current clinical interest lies in treating trauma in people with intimacy difficulties, so I’ve just completed reading Bessel van der Kolk’s brilliant The Body Keeps the Score, as well as the life-changing Steven C Hayes’ Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I am now reading SexSmart – How Your Childhood Shaped Your Sexual Life and What to Do About It, by Aline P Zoldbrod. Because of my love affair with #sextech, I am reading It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd – which dispels myths and simply gives evidence-based facts. A must for every parent.
And then my guilty, very delicious reading pleasure is Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six autobiographical books as they appear. The journals and notebooks of Susan Sontag had the most impact on me last year.