DEPARTMENT OF SEXUALITY STUDIES

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CHRISTOPHER CARRINGTON, Undergraduate advisor

 

About the Instructor

Christopher Carrington is an Associate Professor of Sociology at San Francisco State University. Dr. Carrington's publications include: No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Dr. Carrington’s is currently finishing a book entitled: Circuit Boys: Into the World of the Gay Dance and Circuit Party Culture. This book is the result of a decade-long ethnographic study of the gay dance, rave and circuit-party scene and explores issues of sexuality, friendship, licit/illicit drug use/abuse, dance, collective behavior and other sociological aspects of the “circuit culture.” He is now in the early stages of his next long-term research project, a project focused on long-term, shared household, polyamorous (multiple-adult) relationships. The work will provide a comparison of polyamory among gay men, lesbians, heterosexuals and bisexuals. This work will explore a wide range of issues, issues including domesticity, work-family issues, family relations, intimacy, friendship and sexuality within polyamorous relationships.

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Class offered for Spring 2009

HMSX 400 Variations in Human Sexuality

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Previously offered courses

HMSX 400 Variations in Human Sexuality

HMSX 455 Sex, Power and Politics

SOC 340 Social Psychology

SOC 464 Families and Society

SOC 362 Deviance and Conformity

SOC 472 Social Inequality

SOC 468 Social Aspect Human Sexuality

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Research Interests - Lesbian and gay relationships and family life, gay male sexuality, gay male friendship, drug use and abuse among gay men, circuit, dance and rave cultures, and ethnographic methods

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Department(s)

Sociology

Sexuality Studies

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Recent articles featuring Christopher Carrington

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Publications

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