May 10, 2019
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Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.
A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.
Even before co-authoring
the New York
Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We
Stray, and What it Means for Modern
Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with
his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a
wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature
in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world,
pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly 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). In his mid-30s,
Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology.
Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused
on distinguishing the human from
the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and
ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered
states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and
later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on
sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary
investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by
the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook
Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA.
Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.
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