Human Sexuality Professor

Next to acne, pop quizzes, and failing their driver’s test, few things are as scary to a teenager as talking about “the birds and the bees” with a parent or Teacher. What’s sometimes frightening in high school, however, often becomes fascinating in college, which is why “Human Sexuality” — taught by a Human Sexuality Professor — is typically one of the most popular courses on a college campus.

As a Human Sexuality Professor, you teach classes about sex and sexuality to college students. A type of Sociology Professor or Psychology Professor (you’re a Sociologist if you study sexual behavior, and a Psychologist if you study sexual physiology), your mission is helping your students understand from a scientific standpoint concepts like arousal, attraction, gender, sexual orientation, sexual deviance, human reproduction, and sexual anatomy.

Like other Professors who teach other subjects, your duties as a Human Sexuality Professor include counseling students, developing lesson plans, writing syllabi, delivering lectures, assigning and grading homework, and administering tests.

And, like other Professors — especially other Science Professors — they also include scholarly research: When you’re not teaching human sexuality, you’re studying it (à la Alfred Kinsey) by investigating the causes and effects of sexual behavior and identities, which might involve surveys, interviews, and even laboratory experiments that shed light on subjects such as homosexuality and heterosexuality, venereal disease, sexual dysfunction, and sexual frequency, among many others.

Whatever the subject, you examine it, then report your findings via presentations, scholarly articles, and books.

In the classroom and the lab alike, you’re a Sexologist whose job is a Salt-n-Pepa lyric: “Let’s talk about sex!”