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free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex.
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San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) trains people to become sex educators and operates a free information and referral switchboard.
We provide free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health.
If you have a question about sex, we'll either answer it or refer you to someone who can.
Our volunteers undergo extensive training in all aspects of human sexuality, including reproduction, birth control, safer sex practices, HIV and other STDs, sexual identity, and gender identity.
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| +1 (415) 989-SFSI (7374)
Our hours are (US/Pacific time)
- 3-9 PM Monday through Thursday
- 3-6 PM Friday
- 2-5 PM Sunday
We are not open holidays or holiday weekends.
We are not a phone sex service. We do not accept calls of that nature. Volunteers will terminate calls that are abusive or inappropriate.
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| ask-us@sfsi.org
You can e-mail us your questions about sex.
Our volunteers may take up to a week for e-mail responses. For urgent questions or just quicker answers, please call our phone switchboard instead!
Our trained switchboard volunteers will answer your questions or refer you to someone who can.
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| If you are interested in becoming a SFSI trained sex educator, we are now accepting applications for the Spring 2010 training cycle. You must fill out a Training application first.
Interviews for training will be held on Wednesday, March 31 and Saturday, April 3 -- interview meetings typically include an introduction to SFSI and last about 90 minutes.
Training dates will be:
| April 10th/11th | Weekend 1: SFSI Style Sex Education
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| April 24th/25th | Weekend 2: Sex and Medical Science
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| May 8th/9th | Weekend 3: Sex and Social Science
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| May 22nd/23rd | Weekend 4: Sex: All the rest
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Training typically starts at 9am and ends around 5 or 6pm each day. This may be modified on some days, so ask.
Our next training will be in the Fall of 2010, dates will be announced in June.
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| Once a week, SFSI posts answers to real-world sex questions from real-world people in our weekly Ask Us About Sex column.
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| Please note, we don't answer questions via Twitter because 140 characters is not enough to give you good responses.
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Social Networking
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| SFSI has a presence on on many social networking sites. You can follow our sex info tweets on twitter, keep up with our news and events on Facebook, browse our library of educational books on Goodreads, make connections with other sex ed professionals through our LinkedIn group, and more.
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| Everyone at SFSI is a volunteer.
Whether we're answering telephones at the switchboard, distributing information at public events, teaching at our human sexuality class, or speaking about sexuality at a local school, we're volunteering our time and energy.
Why you'd want to volunteer? There are lots of reasons!
- We believe in the free availability of sex information.
- We want to learn more about our own and other people's sexuality.
- We like to meet interesting, intelligent people.
- It feels good to give something to the community.
... and of course, because it's fun!
All of our volunteers take our class in human sexuality before going on to answer telephones or do other work for the organization. If you're interested in volunteering with us, please see the Training page to submit an application.
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| Your donation will support free, accurate, anonymous, nonjudgmental information about sex. We now accept donations on-line with no minimum donation: 50 cents, $2, $20, or whatever you choose. SFSI is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit. Your donations may be tax-deductible. We accept credit cards, electronic checks, or PayPal accounts.
We are supported almost exclusively by private contributions and volunteer effort.
If you wanted to help us out, please tell friends, teachers, and medical professionals about us. You can also volunteer with us. You can also request flyers or business cards with SFSI's contact information and distribute them.
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