Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality

The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is an unaccredited, for-profit, degree-granting institution and resource center in the field of sexology located in San Francisco, California. Degree and certificate programs focus on public health, sex therapy, and sexological research.The Institute grew out of research in the 1960s highlighting the general lack of understanding of and formal training in human sexuality. The library and archives are a collection of adult films, academic sexological and erotological resources, and sex therapy training materials.The IASHS has trained many of the current directors of sexology programs in other countries. Most recently, a sister school of the IASHS has been launched in China.Like all post-secondary schools in California, IASHS is required by California law to register with the State of California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, an anti-fraud or anti-diploma mill unit of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. IASHS has BPPE "approval to operate", which means that IASHS meets the minimum legal standards for "offering of bona fide instruction by qualified faculty".