CenterSEE has had many active projects over the years. Here are some of our past projects.
Erotic University was our innovative free online environment featuring an extensive virtual campus with online classes, galleries, a library, student union, special events, and much more. There were 15 departments. It was built in Flash, and when the life of that development tool ended, we did not have the resources to port it over. Some parts of it may be reintroduced in the future. For a time, it was the crowning jewel of our educational outreach.
For over two decades, Sex in Review provided an independent look at adult products and services to help consumers make better buying decisions. It also provided health and safety information.
It began as a section on About.com. When they got rid of adult oriented content, it became part of the Dr. Susan Block network. For most of its existence, it was a part of CenterSEE.
It was another victim of covid, since we were unable to attend the many industry trade shows where new products were introduced, and we could no longer hold our adult product testing events.
The Jeff Booth Show had been almost a year in the planning stages, and was set to launch in early 2007 . The original concept for the Internet radio show was for it to be in front of a live audience and broadcast from the Center for Sexual Expression and Education home in downtown Los Angeles. A studio space was being prepared which could hold up to 100 audience members for the show which would stream live once a week. Unfortunately, the owner sold the facility and we lost the space that had been the home of CenterSEE for 3 years.
It was then reimagined as a prerecorded Internet radio show, which continued for many years, and after many years we made the difficult decision to shut it down once covid hit. Jeff Booth did three ten minute segments every week, each on a different topic. The segments were Jeff Booth’s Big Picture (a more detailed look at a sex related news story), Faith Friday (the intersection of sex and religion), and Sex Science Sunday (the latest in sex science, both good and bad). He also did many interviews. It utilized Jeff”s skills as a comedian to make for an entertaining show.
Plans to bring back the Jeff Booth Show in animated form are in progress. The sets have been designed and so have several of the characters. It is a fun meta concept that parodies traditional talk shows while also providing interviews and commentary on sex and politics, sex and religion, and sex and entertainment.
This cooperative effort involved sexologists and other sex experts who were willing to talk to journalists working on stories about human sexuality to help insure more accurate and fairer representation of sexual topics. We were able to match up many experts with writers over the years.
Focusing on sex science research from a skeptical perspective, it looked at research with poor protocols, inadequate sampling, or fraudulent findings. There was also a focus on research institutions and researchers with anti-sex, homophobic, or other agendas that colored their conclusions and render their work unscientific and fraudulent.
We published dozens of stories through Sex Science Skeptic.
This educational parody site was based on the character Melvin Clear, who parrots the usual pseudoscience and mythology of the abstinence only educational movement and the religious right. It appeared to be a typical blog, but the commentary section after each entry explained Melvin’s fallacies, fears, and psychological issues leading to his over the top conclusions. Melvin Clear also appeared as a guest on the Jeff Booth Show. Virgin Pride is no longer a separate site and is now part of the CenterSEE archives.
This was originally an online magazine with information for couples looking to explore their sexuality together. The site will soon be repurposed as the promotional site for an upcoming book, also titled Adventurous Couples.
An open source project for developing tools to assist educators in creating visually compelling online classes. All of the tools we used to create interactive classrooms were made available for free on our Anywhere Classroom site. They were all made obsolete and were never ported over to newer technology.
This project collects and digitally archives books, art, and cultural artifacts relating to human sexuality. Tens of thousands of works have been archived and digitally restored. It is still an active project.
The Sexual Heritage Preservation Project
This was originally a five part series of classes on the history of censorship with tens of thousands of images and media from the CenterSEE collections. It was expanded into the still under development five part series of books Sex and the Arts.
Hundreds of nude and erotic art images with information about the artists and the context of the art. The contents of this site were folded into Sex and the Arts.