Sue Johanson

Sue Johanson, CM , RN (born March 16, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, sex educator and media personality. She was born as Susan Powell in Toronto to a decorated British war hero, Wilfrid Powell, and an affluent Ontario-born Irish-protestant mother, Ethel Bell, who died when Johanson was 10. She attended nursing school in Winnipeg; soon after graduating, she married a Swedish-Canadian electrician named Ejnor Johanson. They had three children at 10-month intervals, Carol, Eric and Jane.

In 1970, Johanson opened the first birth control clinic in Don Mills CI high school, the first of its kind in Canada.

She hosts the popular radio/television show, the Sunday Night Sex Show. The show first aired in the 1990s as a syndicated radio program, similar to that of Ruth Westheimer, and later became a television show produced and aired on the W Network in Canada. In the United States, an American version of the show airs on the Oxygen Network as Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.

Johanson's humour and frankness make her a popular speaker at Canadian universities. She frequently packs auditoriums to capacity, making even standing room hard to come by.

She was awarded the Order of Canada in 2001.

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