Lux Alptraum is a Peabody Award-nominated writer, sex educator, and consultant most frequently found at Nerve (website) and WoodRocket.^[5] She offers thoughtful criticisms to the sex-positivity movement with bylines appearing in Hustler, The New York Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan (magazine), BlackbookMag, Fusion, Fast Company, Refinery29, Salon, The Atlantic, Jalopnik, Time Out (magazine), Jezebel, SundanceChannel, Bizarre Magazine, GOOD Magazine among other publications.

Over the last two decades, Lux has dedicated herself to smart education and has spoken about sexuality, the internet, and adult entertainment at Harvard University, Brown University, Yale University, NYU, Ohio State University, Columbia University, SXSW, New York City’s Museum of Sex and more. She has also appeared on several podcasts and radio programs.^[3]

Lux previously served as the editor, publisher, and CEO of Fleshbot, the web's foremost blog about sexuality and adult entertainment, How About We Media; a sex educator^[4] at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program; an HIV pretest counselor; and the founder of Boinkology, a blog about sex and culture and editor-at-large for Nerve.com.

She has a weekly newsletter called The Lux Letter for her commentary on sex, feminism, and pop culture.

She was on the Point Break Podcast which she describes as one of her top 5 favorite movies Well-connected and savvy about promotion, She is also a cofounder of the nonprofit behind the annual professional development conference BinderCon, held annually New York City and Los Angeles, California Her first book, examining the American obsession with women lying about sex, will be out from Seal Press in 2018.

Her debut book, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal, examines our cultural obsession with feminine deceit.

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Lux can be reached on Twitter at @luxAlpraum.^[1]

She can also be reached on Instagram @luxnightmare.^[2]

Lux resides in New York City.