There are a number of graduate programs in Sexuality Studies/Human Sexuality, but few undergraduate BA programs (don't know of any in this country offhand).  Many schools offer undergraduates a certificate or minor in Sexuality Studies, which is very different from Women's Studies or LGBT Studies.  SS has a strong social science and biological science base, as well as cultural studies; it's quite interdisciplinary.  A lot of psych majors or public health majors add a SS minor/certificate to their programs.  SS degrees can be helpful to sex educators, therapists, public health advocates and researchers, writers, public policy wonks, and purveyors of various and sundry adult goodies, among other things.

Here's my story: I started as a Theatre major at U of Iowa and also pursued a certificate in SS Studies (they have an excellent SS Department, but alas, no major as yet).  I transferred to UMD, then took two years off to attend a conservatory program in NY.  Now I want to finish my BA, and as I already have the equivalent of a BFA in Acting, I wanted to study something else I loved.  I am now working to get approval for a SS major under the Individual Studies program at UMD.  Since SS is a recognized field I'm not anticipating any trouble aside from the usual nonsense.  What I mostly want to do is theatre, but at this point that whole business is about contacts, job experience, etc.  I'm working for like, no money as an actor right now, in between my crazy/busy job as personal super hero and outraged twenty-something.  I need a BA for my own peace of mind and for a more interesting/better paying/more stable day job.  The BA is all about keeping going in any direction, 'cause that's really all you can do when you're 24, especially when you're the mark on God's personally designed episode of Punk'd.

Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ok, where can you go to school to major in sexuality studies? Is it
under the umbrella of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or
something like that?  Because I know schools that have a department
like that, just not sexuality studies by itself.  But I haven't
looked into it much.

--- In [email protected], Eleanor Keyser
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> Sexuality Studies major in college.
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> Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:        um, why do you know this?
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>   > It is repulsive if the situation is what it first appears, but
I
>   wonder  if it's possible this couple was involved in a D/S
lifestyle 
>   relationship that has now soured.  Doesn't sound like it, but 
>   couples in the lifestyle often do have contracts with very
similar 
>   specifications and reward/punishment systems.  Most of these 
>   relationships are consensual and healthy.  In any event,
something 
>   went wrong somewhere, and there is NEVER any lifestyle
justification 
>   for child pornography (defining child porn however...thornier
issue 
>   than you might think.)
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>   >   Also, did anyone see this story: http://tinyurl.com/gy667. 
Not 
>   sure how I feel about this one.  On the one hand, I believe
almost 
>   absolutely in the right to privacy in the home and gender
equality,
>   but  on the other hand, domestic abuse cases are difficult enough
to 
>   prosecute without adding another layer of red tape and delay.
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>   > hermespal <hermespal@> wrote:        That marriage contract
>   thing in the update is, as they state on the
>   >   site, repulsive. I think I need to go take a shower after
reading
>   it.
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