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William J. Taverner, MA, is the editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education and the director of the Center for Family Life Education (CFLE). He has co-authored numerous sexuality education manuals, including All Together Now: Teaching about Contraception and Safer Sex, Making Sense of Abstinence: Lessons for Comprehensive Sex Education, Positive Images: Teaching Abstinence, Contraception, and Sexual Health, Streetwise to Sex-Wise: Sexuality Education for High-Risk Youth, and Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter.

As a trainer, Taverner presents such topics as “Unequal Partners,” and "Making sense of abstinence," training thousands of educators, counselors, social workers, nurses, therapists, and other professionals. He frequently trains early-childhood professionals, helping them respond to young children’s sexual questions and behaviors, And in 2008, he gave an address at a congressional briefing advocating for sex education.

Before joining the CFLE in 1998, Taverner served as the sexuality educator and trainer for Phoenix House, where he developed Sexuality and Substance Abuse, a comprehensive sexuality education program (for people in recovery from substance abuse) and training program (for their counseling staff). Prior to Phoenix House, he worked with people with developmental disabilities, and co-authored the Verbal Informed Sexual Consent Assessment Tool, to help measure an individual’s capacity to give informed sexual consent.

Taverner is the editor of the eighth, ninth, and tenth editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality, and co-authored the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eleventh editions of this college reader. He served as a contributing author to the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Taverner's latest publications are Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter and the Eleventh Edition of Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality.

Taverner was the first recipient of the “AASECT Founder’s Award” in 2005. Other awards he has received include the 2006 "Golden Apple Award," given by the Association for Planned Parenthood Leaders in Education (APPLE), and a 2006 national award given by the online journal "Sexual Intelligence".

An adjunct professor of human sexuality at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Taverner received his Master of Arts degree in human sexuality from New York University.

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Total Books: 4
Taking Sides Clashing Views in Human Sexuality
2007 - Taking Sides Clashing VIews in Human Sexuality [Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780073397191
ISBN-10: 0073397199
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Nonfiction
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Taking Sides Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality
2004 - Taking Sides Clashing VIews on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality [Taking Sides] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780072917116
ISBN-10: 0072917113
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Nonfiction
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Taking Sides  Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality
2002 - Taking Sides Clashing VIews on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality [Taking Sides] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780072480627
ISBN-10: 0072480629
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Nonfiction
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Taking Sides Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality
2000 - Taking Sides Clashing VIews on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780072371314
ISBN-10: 0072371315
Genre: Nonfiction
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