Simon Sheppard (1948 – February 12, 2021) was a writer of gay erotica and a sex-advice columnist from San Francisco.

Sheppard's work is wide-ranging, often combining history, philosophy, and culture — high and low — with hardcore sex.

He also co-curated and co-hosted, with Carol Queen and Lori Selke, the San Francisco performance series Perverts Put Out!

[1] Sheppard was openly gay and kinky,[2] and was active in the queer artistic, political and AIDS-activist communities.

Sheppard died of kidney cancer on February 12, 2021, aged 72 in San Francisco, California.