Sex expert.
That’s how Leighann McCoy referred to me on her blog (I love to read Leighann’s thoughts. Check her out at http://sisterpastor.blogspot.com). I guess others see me the same way. That’s why national TV and radio programs invite me on the air. I talk about sex. More than that, the intriguing aspect to the media is that I do so as a Christian. As Brian Alexander wrote about me on MSNBC, I’m a book, chapter, and verse guy.
For the last couple years I’ve been doing research to earn a PhD from the University of Sydney, regularly listed as one of the top fifty universities in the world. The department is Biomedical Science. The area of study is sexology. April 2007 I attended the World Congress for Sexual Health in Sydney. It’s held in some major world city every couple years. There were several tracks running at the same time so I had to pick and choose what was of most interest to me. Tracks included things such as Gay & Lesbian Studies, Premature Ejaculation (apparently the most studied area of sexology in the world right now), Sex & The Internet, etc. As with most conventions, there were also plenary sessions where we all came to together to hear various experts or researchers.
The day after the congress ended, there was a special one-day conference for Christians who study or work in sexology. A handful of us. That’s all. We talked about sexual problems facing Christians in the world. Turns out that many Evangelical Christians in other parts of the world deal with some pretty intense situations. At one point the moderator turned to me and asked, “How do American Evangelicals deal with the problem we’re discussing?” My response, “I’ve never even heard of this problem. I had no idea it existed.”
So much for appearing to be an expert to that international group.
However, I am considered by many in the USA to be just that. A sexologist who is also a conservative Christian. Oxymoron? Nah. Just not as common as it should be.
That’s why we will soon have a Q&A section on www.JoeBeam.com where people may write any sexual question they wish to have answered. I won’t shy away from a topic because it might be politically incorrect. Neither will I use childish euphemisms when referring to anatomy, so don’t expect to find many references to “Mr. Happy” like I found in one Christian book about sex.
If you wish to comment on my answers, even disagree, that will be fine as well. The idea is not for me to force what I believe on you, nor you on me. It is to find the way for those of us who are the people of God to enjoy sex with our spouses.
Without inhibition.