William J. Taverner

[3] As a trainer, Taverner presents such topics as “Unequal Partners,” and "Making sense of abstinence,"[4] training thousands of educators, counselors, social workers, nurses, therapists, and other professionals.

[4] He frequently trains early-childhood professionals, helping them respond to young children’s sexual questions and behaviors,[5] And in 2008, he gave an address at a congressional briefing advocating for sex education.

Prior to Phoenix House, he worked with people with developmental disabilities, and co-authored the Verbal Informed Sexual Consent Assessment Tool, to help measure an individual’s capacity to give informed sexual consent.

[8] Taverner is the editor of the eighth, ninth, and tenth editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality, and co-authored the fifth through seventh, and eleventh through thirteenth editions of this college reader.

[9] He served as a contributing author to the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, co-author of Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter[3] and his newest publications include the fourth edition of Positive Images: Teaching about Contraception and Sexual Health[10] and the two-volume third edition of Teaching Safer Sex,[11] which won the 2013 AASECT Book Award.