Return to Home PageDr. Dean C. Dauw served in the Roman Catholic priesthood from l959 to l965. He is uniquely qualified to examine God and sex from both the theological and behavioral approach. Dauw keenly remembers his vigorous seminary training of thirteen-years---thirteen years of teaching against sex, of daily self-whippings to prevent sexual thoughts, of guilty confessions of parishioners that came later. Dr. Dauw found that 99% of all confessions he heard in parishes around the country from rural to urban areas dealt with sexual sins. They ranged from anguish over masturbation and adultery to incest and bestiality. Incest came up with frightening frequency. Dr. Dauw found that sex was an even greater problem for the clergy, where unhappiness, mean-spiritedness and alcoholism ran rampant.
Dr. Dauw was in his thirties when he met Robin, fell in love and discovered sex. Just months away from receiving his Ph.D. in psychology--an attainment accomplished by few other priests--Dauw's superiors vetoed the completion of his dissertation and ordered him to follow his vow of obedience to do missionary work in Africa. Refusing to do so, one day in l964, Dauw packed a few books and left, the first priest of his religious order in the United States to ever do so. Dauw was immediately excommunicated. His unheard of act was followed by a massive exodus--50,000 priests--just a few years later.
The inexhaustible sexual misery that Dauw listened to in the darkness of the confessional led him to become a psychotherapist, a healer of sexual dysfunction, and founder of the first sex therapy clinic in Chicago: Sexual Enrichment Counseling Services--SECS.
Dauw is also now a member of CORPUS, an organization of "reserve priests" who "left the active priesthood" to become "more active," marry or pursue other career goals while remaining eager to serve the church and resume an active ecclesial ministry. Were CORPUS a diocese, it would be the largest in the USA in number of priests. Were it a religious order, it would rank as one of the very largest, similar in size to the Jesuits.
Dean Dauw now holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota. He has more than thirty years of university and college teaching experience, and recently held a tenured professorship at DePaul University's Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Dauw currently is a sexual therapist and management consultant to Chicago-based international conglomerates. He also continues his research and writing and is an active member of many professional organizations. These include the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS), a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology, and Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Clinical Sexologists (FAACS).
Dr. Dauw has published several books on career counseling, self-esteem, and two related to sexual surrogate therapy, including The Stranger in Your Bed: A Guide to Emotional Intimacy (Chicago: Nelson-Hall). Additionally, he has authored numerous professional articles.
In producing the trilogy God and Sex, Dr. Dauw has won awards as a finalist in a contest for creative writing in the category "America's Best Mainstream Competition." Experienced and comfortable in various forms of media communications, Dr. Dauw has been invited as a guest on numerous radio and television shows since l981 with Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" to more recent appearances with Oprah, Geraldo, Sonya, Sally, Jerry Springer, Morton Downey, Jr., FOX news, and the Miracle Network, among others.
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