Lindsey Takara Doe (born ) is a sexology, sex education, and host of Sexplanations on YouTube.
Personal life
Lindsey Takara Doe
was born in .
she had three children.
In 2015, when one of her daughters complained about a boy who would not stop pestering her for a date, Doe took the opportunity and published a video addressing such harassment from boys; the video received international attention, spirited debate, and over 76,000 views in ten days.
In 2010, Doe's photograph was featured alongside a personal statement as part of The Strong Women Project, exhibited at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library in Missoula, Montana. She was originally photographed "in a pressed collared shirt, slacks and matching jewelry", but felt she was misrepresenting herself; Doe returned to the shoot hours later, stripped to her underwear, and slathered herself in homemade mud to retake the photos.
In 2022, Doe posted to Twitter that she had moved to Slovenia.
Education
For her Master of Science at the University of Montana (UM) in 2005, Doe's
thesis was
Phenomenological claim of first sexual intercourse among individuals of varied levels of sexual self-disclosure.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in
human sexuality from the then-accredited Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
Career
A self-described
sexology,
by February 2008, Doe had an office in Missoula—the city's first, helping clients with sexuality difficulties.
In 2015, her
sexual health center was Birds and Bees LLC.
She was also an adjunct professor at UM, teaching on human sexuality,
Sexplanations
Driven by her children's lack of
sex education,
in April 2013, Doe partnered with
Hank Green to found the
YouTube channel
Sexplanations, a series about human sexuality that began that July. By October 2013, the videos had already attracted controversy and attacks on its host; viewers have objected to Doe's use of the phrases "biosex male" and "biosex female" to refer to
sex assignment, as well as her inclusion of "allies" in the initialism
LGBT. The ratio of filmed content to the final videos is about 30:1, with Doe and her
videographer agonizing over all the details. Guests on
Sexplanations have included
Eden Atwood and Hank Green.
The show's tagline is "stay curious".
In 2015,
The Daily Dot raved about
Sexplanations, calling it "not only an accomplishment in the world of sex education but the world of YouTube."
In June 2017, Doe expanded the
Sexplanations brand to a similarly-themed
podcast.
In November 2021, Doe announced the December retirement of Sexplanations, citing two primary reasons: first, an observation that she was finding her content repetitive, and second, that her mental health had declined from nearly a decade of persistent sexual harassment and vitriolic emails and calls to her personal cell phone.
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