Toronto Symposium on Sex and Sexuality

Toronto Symposium on Sex and Sexuality

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2025

Prospective Conference Dates: February 10th-11th, 2025

About the Symposium

For Sexual Health Awareness Week 2025, the University of Toronto Sexual Education Centre is hosting a Symposium on Sex and Sexuality on February 10th-11th, 2025 at the University of Toronto. This event aims to highlight interdisciplinary academic work on sex and sexuality in an effort to close the gap between theory and practice as it concerns human sexuality.

Sexual Health Awareness Week is a yearly campaign designed to highlight important conversations about sexual health and promote resources to improve community health across Canada (Action Canada). SHAW 2024 will take place from February 10-14.

The University of Toronto Sexual Education Centre is a levy-funded not-for-profit organization that provides peer support, safer sex supplies, and sexual education and outreach. Our mission is to provide a broad spectrum of support to the University of Toronto community using non-oppressive, non-judgemental frameworks while emphasizing harm reduction, accessibility, and confidentiality. 

Call for Abstracts

The Sexual Education Centre welcomes abstracts on any aspect of sex and sexuality. Submissions should be 250 words and suitable for a 15-minute presentation. Submissions from all academic disciplines are welcome, provided they are relevant to the areas of sex education, sexual health, and sexuality.

We are especially interested in submissions from first-generation students and individuals from marginalized groups (Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM), 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, low socioeconomic status, women and gender diverse individuals)

Possible topics/themes include (but are not limited to):

• Sexual health education

• Research in sexual health, including public health

• Sexuality and disability

• Sexual consent and sexual violence

• Pleasure and desire

• BDSM & kink 

• Erotica

• Relationship structures

• Asexuality and aromanticism

• Sex work