Elaine Sandra Byers FRSC (born November 9, 1951) is a Canadian psychologist, sex researcher, educator and therapist.
[6] She later became the founding director of the University's Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence and co-edited "Sexual Coercion in Dating Relationships.
[8] In 2004, Byers and S. Andrea Miller conducted a study published in the Journal of Sex Research that concluded men in heterosexual relationships were often dissatisfied with the length of foreplay and intercourse.
[8] Later, Byers, Kaitlyn Goldsmith and Amanda Miller concluded that out of 107 men and 102 women, only 30 percent would choose to live life as the opposite gender.
[11] In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[12] and recognized by the Canadian Sexual Research Forum with an Outstanding Contribution Award.