Academic Career:

1989 - 96      Studied Cultural Anthropology, German Literature and Linguistics, European History at the University of Regensburg
1997              M.A., University of Regensburg
1998 - 00      Visiting Scholar at Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1999 Feb.      Visiting Scholar at Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco
2000 - 03       Studied Education at Humboldt University, Berlin
2003               Dr. phil., Humboldt University, Berlin
2000 - 03       Research Associate at Archive for Sexology, Berlin
2001 - 03       Deputy Director (for Director on Sick Leave)
2001 -            Lecturer at Baden-Wuerttemberg State Centre for Civic Education
2003               Diplomate in Educational Sexology, American Board of Sexology
2003 -            Adjunct Assistant Professor at American Academy of Clinical Sexologists, Maimonides University, FL
2003               Lecturer in Education, Humboldt University, Berlin
2004 -            Lecturer in Sexual Health, Postgraduate Course Public Health and Epidemiology of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2007 -            Clinical Associate Professor at American Academy of Clinical Sexologists (AACS), Orlando, FL

Publications:

Guest Editor: The Legacy of Alfred Charles Kinsey. Sexuality and Culture 10th Anniversary Issue (1/2006).

“Alfred C. Kinsey: A Much Discussed Scientist of Our Time.” Sexuality and Culture 10th Anniversary Issues (1/2006), pp. 5-14

Robert T. Francoeur, Ray J. Noonan, and Jakob Pastoetter, “Female Sexuality and Health Today: Challenges to Cultural Repression.” CrossCurrents (A quarterly devoted to science, culture and religion; CrossCurrents Forum, Columbia University, New York), 54 (3/2004).

Associate Editor: “The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality”, New York and London: Continuum International 2004.

“Germany.“ In: Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan, ed., The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality. New York and London: Continuum International 2004, S. 450-466 (together with Rüdiger Lautmann and Kurt Starke).

“Germans.” In: Carol R. and Melvin Ember, ed., Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Men and Women in the World’s Cultures vol. I. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum 2004, S. 400-407.

“Needle to p6.” Sexualmedizin 25 (12/2003), p. 257.

“Erotic Home Entertainment and the Civilising Process. Analysis of the Postindustrial Phenomenon Hardcore Pornography.” Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag 2003.

“Love and Eroticism: Addition or Contradiction?” Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 28 (3/2002): pp. 280 – 282.

“Vietnam.“ In: Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, vol. IV, pp. 639–691. New York and London: Continuum International 2001.

“Tourism and Sex: Conceptualising of Foreign Countries as (S)exotic.” Sexuality and Culture 5 (2/2001): pp. 107–110.

“Pornography as Academic Field of Research. American and German Approaches Towards the Problematic Field of Research Pornography.” Sexualmedizin 22 (9/2000): pp. 247-250.

"Pornography - a Men’s Culture?" In: Stadt Burglengenfeld, ed., Männer-Kulturen (pp. 143-152). Burglengenfeld 1995.

Papers Presented (Selection):

"The Sex Traffic." XVIIth DGSS Conference, Lüneburg (24.9.2006)
“True Love – Sexuality in Media.” Adult Education Center Olching (3.5.2005).
“Construction of Sexuality in Islamic Countries.” XVIth DGSS Conference, Lüneburg (27.6.2004).
"Trafficking and Political Reactions in the USA and Europe." Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, München (8.3.2004).
"The Postindustrial Phenomenon of Erotic Home Entertainment¹ and the Civilizing Process." XVth DGSS Conference, Lüneburg (22.6.2002).
"Socioeconomic Functions of Pornography, or: Why Business with Taboo is Booming?" XVth World Congress of Sexology, Paris (26.6.2001).
"The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction: Agendas, History, Relationship." Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN (24.3.1999).
"Differing Perceptions of Sexuality in Europe and the USA: Conception, Construction, Consumption." Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN (14.12.1998).


Professional Positions:

Associate Editor: 'Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality' at the Kinsey Institute; New York: Continuum.
Book Review Editor: Sexuality & Culture, An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Transaction, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Memberships in Professional Societies:

President of German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS)
Member of American Board of Sexology (ABS)
Member of International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
Member of American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors & Therapists (AASECT)