Christopher Ryan (author)

Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a BA in English and American literature in 1984 and an MA and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco,^[1] CA twenty years later. He spent the intervening decades traveling around the world working odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). His masters thesis examined difference in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public.^[2] His doctoral dissertation analyzes the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist, Stanley Krippner,^[3] a humanistic psychologist, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jürgen W. Kremer.^[4]

Ryan gave a TED talk^[5] in February, 2013, contributes to Psychology Today^[6] and has an interview podcast called Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan.^[7]

He is married to his sometime collaborator and co-author of Sex at Dawn, Cacilda Jethá.^[8]

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