Teaching Sex at Stanford

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Abstract
The teaching of human sexuality at Stanford is usually associated with Herant Katchadourian’s course Human Sexuality (Human Biology 10) which was initiated in 1968 and enrolled over 20,000 students over the next several decades. While that course was the first to explicitly focus on sex, there have been earlier courses about topics that most probably touched on the subject in one way or another. Some of these courses go back all the way to the founding of Stanford. Between 1891 and the post-World War II period, they were typically listed under physical education and hygiene, as part of the more general concern with infectious illnesses, including venereal diseases. In the 1950s, there was a shift to courses on marriage and the family with references to physical intimacy and sex.

Description

Type of resource sound recording-nonmusical
Extent 1 audio file
Place Stanford (Calif.)
Language English
Digital origin born digital

Creators/Contributors

Sponsor Stanford Historical Society
Speaker Katchadourian, Herant A.

Subjects

Subject Stanford University
Genre Lectures

Bibliographic information

Finding Aid
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/cp105nh8883
Location SC0683
Repository Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Use and reproduction
The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
Copyright
Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.

Collection

Stanford Historical Society program recordings, 1997-2022

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