
About Dr. Elisabeth Sheff
With more than 25 years researching consensual nonmonogamies, Dr. Eli Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children.
Dr. Eli has a PhD in sociology and is a Certified Sexuality Educator who has written four books and 30+ academic articles on CNM and BDSM/kinky sex. She serves as a relationship coach, educator, and expert witness.
CNM is certainly not for everyone, and Dr. Eli can help people understand how it can work and why, and when it is a bad idea.
She has appeared on hundreds of podcasts, television shows, and media interviews with outlets from NPR, National Geographic, and the New York Times to Cosmopolitan and Savage Love. Dr. Eli blogs for Psychology Today and always wants to make friends with dogs.
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About
One of a handful of global experts on polyamory and the foremost international expert on children in polyamorous families, Dr. Elisabeth Sheff has studied sex and gender minority families for over 30 years.
Sheff’s television appearances include CNN, and the National Geographic, and she has given hundreds of radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from Vouge and BuzzFeed to the New York Times and National Public Radio.

