Dr. Beverly Whipple, a certified sex educator, certified sex counselor, certified sex researcher, and certified sexologist, is the co-author of the international best-seller, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality, which has been translated into 19 languages. Her most recent book is Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex.

Dr. Whipple has appeared on over 200 radio and TV programs. She has been featured in articles in magazines including Time, Glamour, Self and Readers Digest. She has delivered more than 300 professional talks, presentations and keynote speeches and published more than 80 journal articles and book chapters. In 1982 and 1983, Bev has lived up to the prediction byThe Philadelphia Magazine that she is "one of the People to Watch." Dr. Whipple is the recipient of the Hugo G. Beigel Research Award for research excellence and the best article published in The Journal of Sex Research, the New Jersey State Nurses' Association Award for Excellence in Nursing Research and the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS). She is also a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Whipple is a Professor of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of NJ in Newark, New Jersey. She received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from Wagner College, a Masters Degree in Counseling and a Masters Degree in Nursing from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Psychobiology, with a major in neurophysiology, from Rutgers University. Her concern with women's health derives naturally from her over thirty years of helping women to feel better about themselves, first as a nurse, more recently as a nurse educator and researcher. Her research focuses mainly on women's health issues and the sexual physiology of women.

In addition, Dr. Whipple is listed in the World Who's Who of Women, International Who's Who in Sexology, Who's Who in American Nursing, and in Contemporary Authors. She is a member of a number of honor societies and received the Alumni Achievement Award from Wagner College in 1983. She belongs to more than a dozen professional organizations and has been a member of the Board of Directors of SSSS, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She is currently the President of AASECT (1998-2000) and on the Executive Committee and the Scientific Committee of the World Association for Sexology (1997-2001).

Dr. Whipple lives in Medford, New Jersey with Jim, her husband of 37 years. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.