About the Author

In a sense there are two authors of this website and the related books: Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson. They are a husband/wife team living in southern Oregon. Marnia does the writing, and Gary supplies most of the science information.

Marnia (with degrees from Brown and Yale) is a former corporate lawyer who left her career to investigate how ancient sacred-sex prescriptions can heal the widespread disharmony in intimate relationships. Her last conventional job took her to Europe as "Director of Legal Services - Europe" for Campbell Soup Company. Since 1990 she has been unearthing clues about healing the alienation between male and female. To see her in action, watch this YOU Tube video of a recent TV appearance in San Francisco.

Gary's passion is neuroscience, and he spends many hours scanning the Web and integrating the latest discoveries. He attended nursing school, and has continued to take university courses in microbiology, cell biology, immunology and genetics. As adjunct faculty at Southern Oregon University, he has taught anatomy and physiology labs. He has also taught anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and pathology at vocational schools in California and Oregon. He found himself delving into the physiology of sex, mating, and recovery after healing from a long-term addiction and chronic depression using the practice described on this website.

At the end of 2010, Gary founded Your Brain On Porn to help heavy porn users learn (1) how Internet porn can change users' brains, and (2) what helps them reverse those changes. If you're at all interested in this issue, have a look at his slide-show series. Since the site was founded, the American Society of Addiction Medicine has come out with a public statement confirming that sexual behaviors can indeed produce addiction-related changes in some brains.

Gary and Marnia blog on Psychology Today, the Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, and www.scienceblog.com. Their work appeared in an anthology about new thought, published by Penguin, which won the Nautilus Award (Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age). Most recently, their article, "The Great Porn Experiment" appeared in The Evolutionary Review.

Together they have given talks in Australia, Canada and the States on the unwelcome effects of evolutionary biology on intimate relationships and the striking parallels between recent neurochemical discoveries and traditional sacred sex prescriptions to such diverse groups as The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (sexual addiction for professional counselors) and the New Culture Institute (radical honesty and sexual freedom).

Marnia invites you to join the Cupid's Poisoned Arrow Facebook page if you would like to keep up with new items of interest.