Support UsSupport The Center For Sex & Culture
There are a number of ways that you can become a financial supporter of the Center for Sex & Culture:
Become a Donor – General or Special Projects
Join our Membership Program
Make a one-time donation
You can also donate materials
Donor Program
CSC relies on donations from our community to run everything from our day-to-day operations to our special programming. As a donor your contribution -- annual, quarterly or monthly -- can support our general fund or be earmarked for a project or program of your choice.
Donor levels:
“Erotic Anthologist” donor $20 - $100
“Pleasure Activist” donor $100 - $500
“Sex Scholar” donor $500 - $1,000
“Silk Sheets” donor $1,000 - $5000
“Sexy Sustainer” donor $5,000 or more
Donors will be recognized in our annual newsletter (unless preferring to be anonymous), and will be thanked with special by-invitation donor events.
Areas of support include:
General Fund
Bricks & Mortar Fund
Library Fund
Scarleteen Project
Mark I. Chester Book Project
Membership Program
Becoming a member of the Center for Sex & Culture is a great way to enjoy all the classes and events we host. Library and higher levels of membership also give you the opportunity to utilize our amazing collection of books and media as well as view some of our rare archival collection. It is also a great way to support CSC’s ability to offer quality programming and sex education.
| Membership Types | Regular | Students / Seniors |
| Basic Membership Includes: discount to many events and classes, invitation to member-only events |
$60/year |
$30/year |
| Library Membership Includes: access to the library/archive and ability to check out certain materials, invitation to member-only events, special viewings of archival materials |
$100/year |
$50/year |
| Silver Membership Includes: discount on events and classes, member-only events, access to the library/archive with check-out ability, special viewings of archival materials |
$200/year |
$100/year |
Gold Membership |
$400/year |
$200/year |
Note on membership restrictions: Members must be 18 or older. Certain events held at CSC but not produced by us may decline to honor our free or discounted event admissions. Certain materials may not be checked out from the library even by members.
One-Time Donations
We also gratefully accept one-time donations of money:
You have three ways to donate!
1) Donate online
2) Send a check or money order (made out to The Center for Sex & Culture) to our mailing address:
CSC
2215-R Market St. #455
San Francisco, CA 94114
3) You can call 415-255-1155 to donate by credit card.
Material Donations
The Center for Sex & Culture accepts material donations for the library as well as for the facility and office. Contact us at
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if you are interested in donating any materials. Please note that we may not be able to accept certain material donations.
Donate books and sexologically significant materials:
We already have several thousand volumes and expect that CSC will be the biggest publicly accessible sexuality research library in the US (maybe even the world!), since most other sexuality libraries are restricted to professional or academic audiences. We are especially eager to collect more materials representing unusual sexual practices and interests; academic materials, including journals and dissertations; pre-1970s materials; private documentations such as sex diaries or erotic autobiographies; and sexuality-relevant archival items such as flyers, catalogs, conference programs, etc. We are also very interested in acquiring estate collections of erotic material. We have only one content restriction in our donations policy: we will NOT under any circumstances accept material depicting underage models who have been photographed, videotaped, or filmed. The Center for Sex & Culture does not accept or archive child pornography or other materials depicting models under the age of 18. CSC does not to the best of our knowledge own, nor will we accept, child porn; to do so is in violation of US law. CSC personnel includes therapists and doctors who are required reporters by law; they must notify authorities of any child porn that is donated to us.
About donations: We are required to report donors' names to the IRS who give us cash or materials whose value is over $5000 per year. Some of our larger donors of funds choose to donate through targeted giving foundations for this reason. If you donate materials rather than cash: According to our understanding of IRS policy, you are responsible for setting the items’ value when you take your deduction. If you would like to inform us of this valuation sum it would be helpful to us, but you are not required to do so. Please be aware that if you set your donations’ value at over $5000, the IRS may require you to have the materials independently appraised.
Thank you for your support!
