Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct pro­fes­sor at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and a lec­tur­er at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty. Her writ­ing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psy­chol­o­gy Today blog, among oth­ers. She lives in New York.