After you access the site you should complete an automated registration process using the menu at the top. This will give you a unique account and password, which will give you access to the site’s other functions. You can change your password to something memorable after your initial login.

The site will be a work in progress over the coming years and an important part of its development will occur when researchers such as you begin to use it to share resources. Thus we have listed various institutions and programs in the database, but we invite you to consider contributing resources such as teaching material (bibliographies, lecture outlines, PowerPoint presentations etc). You can do this by either sending us the material to upload, or you can apply to become the owner of a particular entry. This will enable you to edit the entry and upload information at will.

Please have a look at database entries relevant to you and check their accuracy. If you would like to be able to update a particular entry, get in touch and we can give you the technical “permission”.

Please consider sharing your resources or course material in a spirit of international collegiality. Sexualitystudies.net is licensed through Creative Commons and so that that material on the site may be shared and changed as long as the author is credited and it is not used for commercial purposes.

One of the challenges that a site like this faces is getting the balance right between user generated content in the form of group discussions and owner generated content. We are going to provide regular content over the next couple of years in the form of a blog, so that sexuality researchers and teachers around the world can engage in discussion and debate about the issues we identify. However, over time we would like to invite others to contribute to this blog, so if you have a passion about a particular issue and would like to propose an entry please get in touch. Our blog entries will initially be based upon a literature review of the field of sexuality studies from 2000 to 2007.

User generated content will take the form of group discussions. As a member of the site you will be able to set up a group and run a moderated discussion. This could be private to members of the group, private to members of the site, or publicly viewable. Group moderators choose which they prefer. Group discussions will often be quite local or quite specific. However we may from time to time invite the author of a group post to put their text on the main site blog.