San Francisco Bay Guardian Profiles Ph.D. program in Human Sexuality

The San Francisco Bay Guardian has profiled the new Ph.D. program in Human Sexuality at CIIS.

"Given the ongoing cultural clash, it's fitting that San Francisco — famous for its sexual institutions like the Folsom Street Fair, Kink.com, Good Vibrations, and the Lusty Lady (may she rest in peace) — is poised to lead the way in offering one of the only Ph.D. programs in human sexuality nationwide.

San Francisco already boasts numerous pioneers in sexual education and related studies. City College of San Francisco, for example, began offering one of the first gay literature courses in the country in 1972, leading to the 1989 establishment of the first Gay and Lesbian Studies Department nationwide. And the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University was created to promote sexual literacy, with the goal of replacing misinformation about sexuality and dispelling negative attitudes with evidence-based research on sexual health, education, and rights."

The Ph.D. program will be housed at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is scheduled to get underway in 2014.

Read the full article, featuring a short interview with program founder and CIIS Professor Gil Herdt, at San Francisco Bay Guardian Online.