Charlie Glickman

Career Glickman is a San Francisco-based sex educator. According to Glickman, he began studying about shame based on his own experiences as he himself suffered from that emotion for a large part of his life. He also conducts somatic sexual healing workshops.

He joined sex toys retailer Good Vibrations in 1996, where he deepened his understanding of sex positivity. He worked at Good Vibrations for over a decade, eventually becoming the company's board member, alongside Carol Queen. After leaving Good Vibrations, Glickman pursued doctoral studies in adult sexual education and continued teaching and training sex educators. He also trained sex educators. An advocate for sex positivity, he opposes the prohibition of prostitution. Refinery29, Mel Magazine, Agents of Ishq. Editor from Vice wrote that the idea of equating pegging to saving the world is "borderline delusional". For comments about pegging, he has been consulted by medias such as Cosmopolitan, GQ, Chicago Tribune, Men's Health, Salon.com, among others.

In 2013, he co-authored the book The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners along with sex educator Aislinn Emirzian. The book was cited by Jane Ward in her own book The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. He contributed a chapter, The World Will be a Better Place When More Men Take It Up the Ass, in the book Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century (2015). Glickman has developed his own method for practicing consent and expressing desire with a "simple formula" involving the word "if".

Personal life Glickman identifies as both bisexual and a queer man. He resides in Oakland, United States.