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Dr Petra Boynton is lecturer in international health services research at University College London. She specialises in research on sex and relationships, which she applies by working extensively with the media.
Petra's sex education work includes advising journalists for sex and relationship features, teaching GPs to identify sex problems, and educating sex store personnel. She also runs sex and relationships courses for excluded groups including those with experience of mental distress (mental health service users). Her work is characterised by giving people tools to improve their sex lives, rather than telling them what to do in bed.
Petra is a sex-positive writer and adviser. She has three sex advice columns, a live sex and relationships phone-in for BBC Radio 5, and a fascinating website of her own. Petra campaigns for the freedom to provide sex advice to teenagers, which was threatened by the Sexual Offences Bill - Clause 15 forbids any instruction other than the prevention of pregnancy or STDs, and promotes abstinence. She challenges the medicalisation of sex by the pharmaceutical industry, and campaigns to improve the representation of sex workers. Petra is the academic advisory board member of the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education.