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In March 1995, Society for Human Sexuality (SHS) was founded as a registered student organization at University of Washington. From that time until its key organizers graduated in Fall 1998, as a student organization SHS hosted a wide variety of events both on and off campus, and in parallel began its work to improve the quality of adult sex education on the internet. Amongst all other sex-positive student organizations which existed up to that point, the inclusive nature of SHS was apparently a first.
Although SHS unfortunately did not continue to exist as a UW student organization following the graduation of the students who founded it, there was nevertheless a strong sentiment amongst its founders that this kind of work should somehow continue. So, Society for Human Sexuality (now technically "Society for Human Sexuality, LLC", which is what the terms "Society for Human Sexuality" and/or "SHS" should now be taken to mean) was created in late 1998 as an off-campus entity completely separate from the Univerity of Washington.
Society for Human Sexuality, as a fully off-campus entity, registered the domain name sexuality.org and began building and maintaining this web site.
From December 1998 through the first few months of 1999, the real-life side of SHS's work continued via a series of off-campus workshops. But beginning in the Spring of 1999, we were honored to have had the opportunity to participate in the founding of the non-profit Center for Sex-Positive Culture (then known as the Seattle Sex-Positive Community Center): if you still miss the real-life events SHS used to sponsor, the CSPC is the organization you should consider instead.
Suggestions concerning this web site may be sent to us at shs@sexuality.org.
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