Anne Semans lives in San Francisco with her 5-year-old daughter. She has co-authored several books with Cathy Winks, including The Mother's Guide to Sex (Random, 2001); The Woman's Guide to Sex on the Web (Harper San Francisco, 1999); and The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex (Cleis,1997).
Her interest in accurate sex education was sparked by the nun who taught eighth-grade religion class and counseled her students to "think of a hamburger when you find your thoughts straying to the impure -- it will distract you." Suspecting that God really didn't intend for us to choose between two things as wonderful as sex and food, she made a point of learning as much about sex as she could. She's spent the last 15 years educating herself and others about the wonders of sex, primarily through writing and working with two women's sex toy stores, Libida.com and Good Vibrations.
Semans believes that all people, including children, deserve information about their sexuality in order to lead more fulfilling lives, which is what inspired her newest book, The Mother's Guide to Sex.
