Marty Klein

Dr. Marty Klein is an American sex therapist, author, educator, and public policy analyst. Born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, he has dedicated his career to supporting healthy sexual expression for individuals and couples. Klein is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified sex therapist, with over 35 years of experience in Palo Alto, California.

He is known for his critical views on censorship, the concepts of sex addiction and porn addiction, and the anti-pornography movement. Klein advocates for public policies related to sexuality to be driven by scientific data rather than emotion or tradition. He has participated in various state, federal, and international court cases dealing with the First Amendment, obscenity, censorship, and "harmful to minors" laws.

As an author, Klein has written seven books on sexuality, including "America's War on Sex" and "His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America's Porn Panic with Honest Talk about Sex." He has also published over 100 articles and frequently appears in media outlets such as The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The New Yorker.

He also spoke out against unscientific stereotypes and unfair policies in relation to MAPs.

"The federal government now insists that if two college students get drunk and agree to have sex, one can call it rape and try to have the other expelled from school. At the ensuing hearing, the accused student will not be allowed a lawyer, nor will he be allowed to cross-examine his accuser. This destruction of due process is supposed to be "progress.""

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"The federal government and various states spend tens of millions of dollars to plant detectives in adult chatrooms. They role-play being teens; when chatroom visitors role-play with them, assuming that the person claiming to be a teen is in fact an adult, the visitor is arrested and accused of thinking he was texting with a real teen, which is a felony."

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"In a perfect expression of ambivalence, Americans are more sexually adventurous in their own bedrooms, but increasingly supportive of restrictions on other people's sexual expression. Fear of sexual violence (which has steadily declined for years, but is regularly whipped up by both the Left and the Right) is one explanation. Fear for their children's safety (although in many ways kids have never been safer) is another. And confusion and anxiety about the rapid pace of social change is surely a factor, too.

More information hasn't necessarily helped: myths about predators, child porn users, pedophiles, swingers, age-role-players, and "perverts" such as nudists and cross-dressers have proliferated as public awareness of such people has grown without corresponding facts and insight about them."