African American Men And Love

Dr. Herb Samuels, M.S. S.W. is Professor of Human Sexuality and past Chair of the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.   He is a long time member, more than twenty-five, of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.   During this time he served two terms as treasurer of the Society, President of the Eastern Region as well as Eastern Region Representative.  He has also served as Program and Conference Chair for a number of Eastern Region conferences.

Dr. Samuels has been involved in the field of sexology for more than thirty years.  His primary work is as a sexuality educator.  However, research and counseling are areas that Dr. Samuels has also pursued over the years.  His publications mostly concern the sexual behavior and attitudes of African-American men and women.

Dr. Samuels was a member of the board of directors of SIECUS and is currently on the board of advisors for the Sinclair Intimacy Institute, with whom he participated in the making of several sex education videos, e.g., The Better Sex Video Series for Black Couples.

For those of you might be interested, he’s chapter 39 in “How I Got into Sex”, edited by Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, Marilyn A. Fithian, and William E. Hartman.