The Sexuality Education Committee (SEC) is an organization that promotes healthy, comprehensive sexuality education through lectures, workshops and classes (although we are open to exploring other educational venues). 

In the fall, we sponsor "The Real Person's Guide to Human Sexuality," a series of lectures led by "sexperts" in the Lawrence community on various topics related to sexuality (see schedule below).  We also host an "Intimacy for Committed Couples" workshop, led by Dennis Dailey, world-renowned sexuality educator and professor emeritus of Social Welfare at KU.  For more information, see the "Intimacy for Committed Couples" page on this website.   

In the spring, we host "Human Sexuality in Everday Life," a ten week course led by Dennis Dailey.  For more information, see the "Human Sexuality in Everday Life" page on this website. 

We are always open to new members. 

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SEC is a registered student organization funded and affiliated with the following campus ministries: KU Hillell Foundation (Jewish), Lutheran Campus Ministry (ELCA), University Nazarene Church, and Ecumenical Christian Ministries (Presbyterian USA, United Church of Christ, Brethren and Quaker), and First Presbyterian College Ministry.

Real Person’s Guide to Human Sexuality -

Fall 2009 Schedule was:

September
14^th Transexuality (Dr. Charlene Muehlenhard)
21^st Intimate domestic violence (Vanessa Hayes, WTCS)
28^th Pornography (video discussion led by Dhyana Coil)

October
5^th How homophobia hurts all relationships (Dr. Bob Minor)
12^th Communication and Fighting Fair (Dr. Dennis Detweiler)
19^th Influence of Family on Sexuality (Dr. Dennis Detweiler)
26^th Intimacy (Dr. Dennis Dailey)

Why is the ECM sponsoring programs on Human Sexuality?

Dr. James Nelson, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at United Theological Seminary and United Church of Christ minister, summarizes the ministries' reasons for sponsorship:

"While sexuality may well include our desires for experiencing and sharing genital sexuality, it is far more than this. More fundamentally and inclusively, it is who we are as bodyselves - selves who experience the ambiguities of both "having" and "being" bodies. Sexuality embraces our ways of being in the world as persons embodied with biological femaleness and maleness and with internalized understanding of what these genders mean. Sexuality includes our erotic orientations - our attractions, to the other sex, the same sex, or to both. Sexuality includes the range of feelings, interpretations, and behaviors through which we express our capabilities for sensuous relationships with ourselves, with others and this world. While sexuality is always rooted in our body realities, it is much larger than these, always involving our minds, our feelings, our wills, our memories, and indeed our self-understanding and powers as embodied persons.

Theologically, we believe that human sexuality, while including God's gifts of the procreative capacity, is most fundamentally the divine invitation to find our destinies not in loneliness but in deep connection. To the degree that it is free from the distortions of unjust and abusive power relations, we experience our sexuality as the basic eros of our humanness that urges, invites, and lures us out of our loneliness into intimate communication and communication with God and the world. It is instructive to remember that the word "sexuality" itself comes from the Latin sexus, probably akin to Latin secare, meaning to cut or divide - suggesting incompleteness seeking wholeness and connection that reaches through and beyond our differences and divisions. Sexuality, in suite, is the physiological and emotional grounding of our capacities to love."

From the Introduction of "Sexuality and the Sacred," edited by James Nelson and Sandra J. Longfellow.