I’ve previously written about my college’s psychology department, and its creative, interactive approach to teaching. Nowhere was it more creative – or interactive-- than in the Human Sexuality program. What I haven’t mentioned before, until now, was the clinic. We first learned of it when our professor addressed the Human Sexuality 101 class. “You’ve all done very well in confronting your own sexuality, and becoming comf...

My college has a first-rate psychology department, where one can study learned texts on human behavior.  But book learning has its limits, so the department prides itself on conducting clinical exercises that expand on the material.  That academic rigor applies throughout the department, but nowhere more starkly than in its course on human sexuality.  All participants in that course have to agree ahead of time to particip...