Katherine Frank

Katherine Frank is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Duke University, 1999) and sex researcher. She is the author of Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex (2013) and G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire (2002), and a co-editor of Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance (2006).

Frank has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals—Archives of Sex Research, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, Qualitative Inquiry, and Sexualities, for example—and her writing on strip clubs, marriage and monogamy, infidelity, reality television, swinging, sex tourism, eating disorders, and feminism appears in numerous anthologies. She has also published short fiction and non-fiction in magazines ranging from the prestigious Harvard Business Review to Spread Magazine (a publication for and by sex workers).