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" &amp;quot;Move over, Casanova. Step aside, Don Juan. Out of the way, Mr. Big. Meet Ian Kerner.&amp;quot; --New York Post   Ian Kerner, Ph.D., FAACS, is the author of the upcoming DSI: Date Scene Investigation: The Diagnostic Manual of Dating Disorders; She Comes First: The Thinking Man&amp;#039;s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman, which was selected by Amazon.com and Borders as a &amp;quot;Best of 2004&amp;quot; nonfiction title and has been translated into numerous languages around the world; its companion book, He Comes Next: The Thinking Woman&amp;#039;s Guide to Pleasuring a Man; and the New York Times best-seller Be Honest, You&amp;#039;re Not That Into Him Either (ReganBooks). He has also contributed a chapter on how to have a satisfying sex life for the Experts Guide to Life at Home (Random House).   Ian&amp;#039;s journey to counseling professionally grew out of his own personal battle with sexual dysfunction and his desire to help others. With so many relationships often disintegrating within the first five years of marriage or cohabitation, Ian frequently works with young couples in their 20s and 30s to address issues that are common to the American bedroom but nonetheless lead to lives of quiet desperation.   Ian has appeared frequently on the Today Show and has been seen on Good Morning America, CNN&amp;#039;s Anderson Cooper 360 and Paula Zahn Now, NBC Dateline, FOX News, MSNBC, and Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, among others.   He is currently cohosting a television series for the Discovery Health Channel entitled Love on the Rocks, as well as appearing as a guest life coach on NBC&amp;#039;s Starting Over. Ian has been read in the pages of Cosmo, Men&amp;#039;s Health, O Magazine and the New York Times, to name a few, and has been heard on Howard Stern, the Laura Berman Show, and the Wendy Williams Experience. Ian is a relationship expert for Lifetime Television, and he also contributes sex-advice regularly to eDiets.com.  In addition to meeting regularly with patients, Ian lectures nationally on a variety of subjects related to sex and relationships. Recent appearances have included the Organization of Women Leaders at Princeton University, human sexuality classes at Indiana University, the W Hotel&amp;#039;s Wonderland Series, the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and Sex Week at Yale University (upcoming).   Ian is certified to counsel patients by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is a Diplomate in Sex Therapy of the American Board of Sexology. Ian is also a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the International Society for the Study of Women&amp;#039;s Sexual Health, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSIS), in addition to being on the faculty of the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists.   Ian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University and holds advanced degrees from New York University and the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists. He is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow and a recipient of the Erwin J. Haberle Award in Clinical Sexology.   Ian was born and raised in New York City, where he resides with his wife, Lisa Rubisch, a commercial and music-video director; their son, Owen; and a Jack Russell terrier named Houdini. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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