San Francisco Sex Information
Encyclopedia
San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free sex information via the World Wide Web
, e-mail, telephone, and online social networking. SFSI also offers a bi-annual sex educator training program and various continuing education lectures, all located in San Francisco, CA.
Founded in 1973 by Maggi Rubenstein, Margo Rila and Tony Ayers, SFSI describes its mission as providing "free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health." Graduates of its training program include Isadora Alman, Joani Blank
, Dossie Easton
, Susie Bright
, Patrick Califia
, Sybil Holiday, Andrea Nemerson, Carol Queen
, Midori
and Tantric Healer Triambika. The organization answers about 3,000 phone calls and about twice as many emails every year. Since its inception, SFSI's Basic Sex Educator training program has graduated over 1,500 trainees.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
, e-mail, telephone, and online social networking. SFSI also offers a bi-annual sex educator training program and various continuing education lectures, all located in San Francisco, CA.
Founded in 1973 by Maggi Rubenstein, Margo Rila and Tony Ayers, SFSI describes its mission as providing "free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health." Graduates of its training program include Isadora Alman, Joani Blank
Joani Blank
Joani Blank is an entrepreneur, editor, writer, videographer, educator, cohousing enthusiast and adviser, philanthropist and inventor in the field of sexuality....
, Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton is an author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California. She lives with her partner in West Marin, California.She is a nonfiction author and poet...
, Susie Bright
Susie Bright
Susannah "Susie" Bright is an American writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, and performer, all on the subject of sexuality....
, Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia , born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man.-Biography:...
, Sybil Holiday, Andrea Nemerson, Carol Queen
Carol Queen
Carol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture...
, Midori
Midori (author)
is a prominent human sexuality writer, speaker, and sex educator based in San Francisco, California. Her writings and contributions have appeared in many books and magazines...
and Tantric Healer Triambika. The organization answers about 3,000 phone calls and about twice as many emails every year. Since its inception, SFSI's Basic Sex Educator training program has graduated over 1,500 trainees.