Schedule will change as we accommodate the schedules of guest speakers

Dates of tests and Paper due dates will not change

Topic

January

28 Welcome, Introduction and Consent Form

30 Intellectual introduction to thinking about sexual variations

February

2 Prejudice, Rigidity and Mental Simplicity as Psychological Topics

Read: Sex & the Famous, & Ass-Icons, I’m Sick of the F Word

4 Sex Words & Public Discussion of Sexuality

Read: Etymology of the Word Fuck, Top 10 Times...,

6 Sex, Gender and Bodily Form

9 Social Organization and Sexuality

Read: Sex is Politics

11 Individual Differences in Sexual Styles

Read: Instructions and Advice for the Young Bride

13 Biology, Medicine and Sex

Read: The Medical Model

16 Videotapes: Men masturbating. Women masturbating.

Read: History, Etymology and fallacy: Attitudes toward Male Masturbation in the Ancient Western World, What kind of Penis Do You Prefer?

18 What do we find attractive? Class Discussion

20 TA Panel – What we Find Attractive and Like to Do Sexually

23 Sexual Liberation Movement, 1960-1980

Read: Summer of Love, The Metasexual Manifesto

25 From Liberation to Sexual Addiction & Victimization

Read: The Myth of Sexual Compulsivity

27 Student Panel – Tell a Sex or Gender Conflict Story to the Class

March

1 Videotape: Phallacies & class discussion of Intersexuality

Read: How to Build a Man, 10 Myths of Male Sexuality, Eroticism in Women

Why Men are so Obsessed with Sex

3 Term Paper #1 is Due

Sexuality and Gender – Guest Speaker

Read: Reconsidering Gender Ambiguity in Mesopotamia

5 Transsexual Guest Speakers

Read: Where are the Differences?

8 Transvestite Guest Speakers

Read: The Matter of Gender

10 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Read: Indulging the Sisters, On Drag, History of the Sisters

12 Heterosexuality and Monogamy

Read: The Heterosexual Comes Out, Heterosexuality, How do you Decide Who to Marry?, Love: Addiction or Road to Realization, How Not to Lose You When You Find Him, Gene for Heterosexuality, Heterosexuality Questionnaire.

15 Student Panel II – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Queer and Questioning Student

17 What Does it Mean to Be gay?

Read: Queer by Choice, We’re Here, We’re Queer, Animals Fancies: Why members of some species prefer their own sex, Ram researchers

19 Can Bisexuals Have Relationships?

Read: Framing Radical Bisexuality: Toward a Gender Agenda

22-27 Spring Break

29 Midterm Examination

30 Cesar Chavez Holliday – appreciate the wonderfulness of being alive

April

2 The History of Straight Pornography

Read: Notes on the History of Pornography, Pornography is Good, Hard Core.

5 Women’s Pornography

Read: Towards Lesbian Erotica and Pornography

7 Gay Pornography

Read: A Brief History of the Homoerotic Image, Notes on the New Camp, The Stench of Reality

9 Speaker: Nina Hartley

Read: Reflections of a Feminist Porn Star

12 Hentai – Japanese Animated Pornography

14 Censorship

Read: The Stench of Reality, Feminist Argument Against Censorship,

Sex & the Law, Freedom of Expression: Sexual and Erotic Material

16 Student Panel II – Virginity, Morality and Guilt in Sexuality

19 Human-Animal Sexuality: Video and Discussion

Read: A Guide to Sex with Dogs

21 Sexuality of Children and Teenagers

Read: Stories I and II, Whereas: A Child’s Bill of Rights, The Pedophilia of everyday Life, Minors and Sex: Reality and Denial

23 Student Panel – Age Differences in Sexual Relationships

26 Non-Monogamy

Read: Partner Swapping Comes out of the Closet

28 SadoMasochism – Guest Speakers

Read: Selection from Philosophy in the Bedroom, Reflections on Sade

30 Bondage and Discipline – Guest Speakers

Read: SM Reference list, Mr. Philosopheces

May

3 Sexual Piercing – Guest Speaker

Read: A Glossary of Terms

5 Fetishism: Guest Speakers

Read: TBA

7 TBA

10 Second Term Papers Due

Prostitution – Guest Speaker

Read: Sex in The City

12 Sex Therapy

Read: Keeping the Sex in Sex therapy.

14 Student Panel III – Partners of Different Ethnic, Racial or Class Backgrounds

Read: Black Male Lust, Sexuality, Relationships & Democratic Imagination

17 TBA

19 TBA

24 Final Exam 10:45