Female Sexuality Workshop: FemSex
What is FemSex?
The Female Sexuality Workshop, or FemSex, is a student-run class started
at U. C. Berkeley in 1993 and now being taught at
Brown, Harvard and Cornell as well.
Its mission is to create a safe environment within which participants can
work to attain empowered relationships with female identity and sexuality.
By building community, encouraging self-exploration, and guiding
education, it aims to enable individuals to recognize and validate their
own experiences, to explore the options available to them, and make
educated and self-aware choices.
Topics include: anatomy and physiology, cultural influences on sexuality,
eating disorders, contraception, STIs and safer sex, women’s health,
reproductive choices, sexual identity, masturbation, partner sex and
relationships, fantasies, orgasms and inhibitors to orgasms, and
pornography and erotica among other things.
The class is structured as a discussion led by two student facilitators.
All participants are held accountable for the creation of a safe and
supportive educational community where people of all backgrounds,
persuasions and orientations can feel comfortable sharing their stories.
Spring 2007 Syllabus
Classes take place on two week day nights a week. Applications for Spring
Semester FemSex classes will be available January 31, 2007. Contact
Hannah (hws5@cornell.edu)
for more information.
Testimonials
"FemSex helped me to become a confident woman determined to guide others to the path of positivity and sexual happiness. The workshop provided me with a safe space to let out my private feelings and experiences, and myself and the others in the group worked through difficult situations and fun activities together."
Ann (Fall 2006)
"FemSex has changed my perspective. It introduced me to brand new ideas and helped me with issues that I was not comfortable with before. Most importantly, it helped me challenge assumptions that I took for granted before providing a safe space to express feelings and thoughts that I couldn't express elsewhere.
I learned something new about myself at every class and had lots of fun doing it. I became much more confident about myself and my place in society."
Yvonne (Fall 2006)
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