Description of Course Content

COURSE SYLLABUS FOR HUMAN SEXUALITY SEMESTER: Fall, 2008 INSTRUCTOR: Jack Morin, Ph.D. PHONE: 415-552-9560 E-MAIL: [email protected] PROGRAM: ICP UNITS: 1 COURSE #: MCP6101-02 COURSE TITLE: Human Sexuality DESCRIPTION OF COURSE CONTENT An examination of the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and transpersonal dimensions of sexual experience, including learning, attitudes, meaning, physiology and response, fantasy, erotic variations, sexual problems and counseling techniques. Emphasis will be on eroticism as an expression of the total person, especially the search for wholeness and self-affirmation. SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE To increase students’ understanding of and comfort with sexual expression in all of its forms, both positive and problematic. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this course, students will be able to: 1. Describe the physiology and psychology of sexual response. 2. Discuss sexual behaviors and fantasies comfortably. 3. Assess common sexual problems and make appropriate basic interventions. LEARNING ACTIVITIES Lecture and Discussion = 100% CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION Writing Project: A 6–8 page paper integrating theory, personal experience, and practical applications. Level of Instruction: MA Grading: Pass/NP Only

Open to all CIIS students

Class Size: 30

REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Morin, Jack (1995). The Erotic Mind. NY: HarperPerennial. NOTE: READ ENTIRE TEXT BEFORE THE FIRST MEETING.) 2. Course Reader (available at Copy Central, Market & Castro) RECOMMENDED READINGS 1. Zilbergeld, Bernie (1999, revised). The New Male Sexuality. New York: Bantam Books. 2. Additional recommended meeting to be announced. COURSE TOPICS

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Physiology of arousal and orgasm Sexuality and the life cycle Fantasy and masturbation Male and female sexuality Psychology of eroticism Sex roles, sexual orientation, and gender identity Erotic variations Introduction to sex therapy: desire, arousal, and orgasm problems Troublesome turn-ons: understanding erotic conflicts and paraphilias RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY Anand, Margo (1989). The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers. Los Angeles: Tarcher. Barbach, Lonnie (1975). For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality. New York: Doubleday. Barbach, Lonnie (1982). For Each Other: Sharing Sexual Intimacy. New York: Signet. Blank, Joani (1993). Famalia. San Francisco: Down There Press. Brame, G. G., W. D. Brame, and J. Jacobs (1993). Different Loving: The Worlds of Sexual Dominance and Submission. New York: Villard. Buss, David M. (1994). The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books. Califia, P. (1993). Sensuous Magic: A Guide for Adventurous Couples. New York: Richard Kasak Books. Campbell, Susan (1980). The Couple’s Journey: Intimacy As a Path to Wholeness. San Luis Obisbo, CA: Impact Publishers. Clark, D. (1997, 3rd Ed.). Loving Someone Gay. Berkeley: Celestial Arts. Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: HarperPerennial. Dodson, Betty (1987). Sex For One: The Joy of Selfloving. New York: Harmony Books. Hall, Marny (1998). The Lesbian Love Companion. SF: HarperSanFrancisco. Kaplan, Helen S. (1979). Disorders of Sexual Desire. New York: Brunner/Mazel. Loulan, JoAnn (1990). The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms. San Francisco: Spinsters Book Co. Michael, Robert, Gagnon, J., Lauman, E., and Kolata, G. (1994). Sex in America: A Definitve Survey. New York: Little, Brown.

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McWhirter, David P. and Andrew Mattison (1984). The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Money, John (1989). Lovemaps. New York: Irvington. Moore, Thomas (1990). Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism. Dallas: Spring Publications. Moser, Charles (1999). Health Care Without Shame: A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and Their Caregivers. San Francisco: Greenery Press. Mosher, Donald L. (1980). Three dimensions of depth of involvement in human sexual response. Journal of Sex Research. 30 (1), 1–42. Otto, Herbert (1999). Liberated Orgasm: The Orgasmic Revolution. Silverado, CA: Liberating Creations. Plummer, Ken (1995). Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change, and Social Worlds. Routledge. Rowan, Edward (2000). The Joy of Self-Pleasuring. Prometheus. Rosen, Sandra and Raymond Leiblum, eds. (2000). Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy. New York: Guilford. Schnarch, David M. (1991). Constructing the Sexual Crucible: An Integration of Sexual And Marital Therapy. New York: Norton. Schnarch, David (1997). Passionate Marriage. Nw York: Norton. Schultz, R. Louis, S. Kahili, and L. Keswick (1999). Out in the Open: The Complete Male Pelvis. North Atlantic. Simon, William and John H, Gagnon (1984). Sexual scripts. Society. Nov./Dec., 53–60. Singer, Barry (1984). Conceptualizing sexual arousal and attraction. Journal of Sex Research. 20, 230–40. Steinberg, David, ed. (1992). The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self. Los Angeles: Tarcher. Stoller, Robert J. (1979). Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life. New York: Simon and Shuster. Tennov, Dorothy (2nd Ed, 1999). Love And Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House. Tisdale, Sallie (1994). Talk Dirty To Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex. New York: Anchor. Tripp, C. A. (2nd Ed,1987). The Homosexual Matrix. New York: New American Library.