Anne Hooper (born 1941) is a British sex therapist and author, who pioneered

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groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.

Books

Since beginning a career as an author in the late 1970s she has written over 40 titles on the subject of sex therapy and sexual enhancement. These include ''The Ultimate Sex Guide'' and ''21st Century

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''. Her book ''Hot, Hot, Hot: The Body Electric'' has been described as “a seminal work” and has been in print for over 30 years while ''Divorce and Your Children'' was the first UK based book on the subject and has also been in print for over 30 years. She is author of the popular psychology book ''

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for Beginners'' and an innovative work on the links between

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and sexual function in Sex: the Manual aka How Was It For You?

Counseling

Hooper is a marital

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, a sex therapist (BASRT). She founded the Women's Sexuality Workshop in the late 1970s, is a UK listed

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, a former council member of the Adlerian Society for Individual Psychology of Great Britain, and Founding Editor of the Adlerian Yearbook

Journalism and radio

Hooper was a regular columnist on the ''

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'', introducing sexual subject matter to its readers in the early 1990s and also had columns in ''

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'', ''First Magazine'', ''Best'', and ''Bella''. As a reforming feminist, she ensured that her writing was non-sexist at a time when others had not yet adapted their attitudes. She was a long-term radio presenter of the Counselling Programme on LBC in London and the first

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for the first national cable television station in the UK (Wire TV). Currently she is consultant to Amora – the Academy of Sex and Relationships. She has been a trustee for the Post Abortion Counselling Service (PACS) a regional committee member of the Family Planning Association and is presently assisting Ataxia UK.

Film work

Hooper is the founder of the Tetbury Film Society and now works with the British Federation of Film Societies – South West to further film viewing in remote regions of South West England.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20181017173928/http://www.annehooper.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Anne Living people 1941 births British sex columnists British women columnists British relationships and sexuality writers Sex therapists