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cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Syed) writes:

[...]
>   SIECCAN is the Sex Info & Edu Council of Canada, and is the sister
>   organisation to SIECUS in the USA. We publish the Canadian J. of Human
>   Sexuality (hope this isn't taken as a "commercial use of the net") ;-)
>   for which a list of articles is avail. SIECCAN has about 1000 members,
>   most of whom are accredited sexologists, therapists, pastors, psychologists
>   etc. so the library contains mostly scholarly stuff, but a fair amount of
>   self help or "popular" works. 
[...]

I suggest posting your infomation on how to get more information to
alt.sex.

As an aside, I'm enclosing a list of Canadian universities that have
banned on-line discussions of sex.

- Carl

=========== excerpts from ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/banned.1992 =====
Banned Computer Material 1992

Inspired by Banned Book Week '92, this is a list of computer material
banned or challenged in academia in 1992. Iowa State University has
the dubious distinction of being listed most often (three times).

[...]
+ Canada:

alt.sex.bondage and other "pornographic writing" anywhere in *Canada*.
     ... challenged in a CBC Radio show that suggested that the police
     would suppress these if they could figure out how.
          news/cafv02n30:<telecom12.427.9@eecs.nwu.edu>

All Netnews discussions of sex at *Simon Fraser University*
     The _Globe and Mail_ quotes the director of academic computing
     services: "It's the same as if somebody wants Playboy or
     Penthouse.  We don't have them in the university library." In
     fact, SFU has _Playboy_ in its library.
          news/cafv02n38:<1992Jul21.164722.252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
          news/cafv02n37:<philip.12@SMU.StMarys.CA>

All "vulgar", "reprehensible", "pornographic", or "poison[ous]"
material that might be accessed from, created on, or stored on
*University of British Columbia* computing equipment starting with
newsgroups alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica
     ... banned by order of the president of the University
          news/cafv02n39:<DALTON.92Jul31231305@oligo.Geop.UBC.CA>

All Netnews discussions of sex at the *University of Manitoba*
     ... banned the day after a critical article in the Winnipeg Free Press
          news/cafv02n21:<1992May10.093635.27536@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
          news/cafv02n38:<1992Jul21.164722.252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
          news/cafv02n37:<philip.12@SMU.StMarys.CA>
          news/cafv02n26:<1992May28.010057.18609@cs.sfu.ca>
          news/cafv02n30:<1992May31.080939.25516@clarinet.com>

[U. of Toronto rejected a challenge -cmk]

The alt.sex* newsgroups at the *University of Ottawa*
          cases/wlu.ca

[...]
The alt.sex* newsgroups at *Wilfrid Laurier University*
     ... because the administration thinks they are "offensive" and "puerile".
          cases/wlu.ca
[...]

===================== end of excerpt ==========

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

=================
banned.1992
=================
A list of computer material that was banned or challenged in academia
in 1992. The institutions mentioned are:

Ball State U., Boston U. (2), Carnegie Mellon U., German universities,
Iowa State U. (3), Irish universities, James Madison U., Middle East
Technical U., North Dakota State U., Pennsylvania State U., Princeton,
Simon Fraser U., U. of British Columbia, U. of California at Berkeley
*, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U. of Manitoba, U. of
Massachusetts at Boston, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, U. of Newcastle,
U. of Ottawa, U. of Texas, U. of Toledo, U. of Toronto *, U. of
Wyoming, United Kingdom Net, Virginia Public Education Network,
Virginia Tech, Western Washington U. (& U. of Washington), Wilfrid
Laurier U. (2), Williams College **

========
* Site of an unsuccessful challenge
** College not directly involved.


=================
caf
=================
A description to the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a
free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should general
principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom
to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers
and networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can
the principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and
networks be defended?

=================
=================

These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/banned.1992
  pub/academic/caf

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom banned.1992
send acad-freedom caf
-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =