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Education & Referral Organization For Sexuality

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ABOUT US

  • EROS is a FREE resource center for San Francisco State University students.
  • We are dedicated to promoting a healthy and respectful understanding of sexuality and gender through judgment-free peer education, diversity, and empowerment.
  • Through the services we provide, we promote the health and wellness of students and offer the opportunity for students to gain a deeper understanding of self, sexuality, and health services in the Bay Area.
  • Organize sexual health related events for students, including Kink and Bondage, Consent Workshops, and our annual Sexuality Career Fair.
  • Connect the campus community by providing presentations and information to students, classes, and organizations.
  • Connect students to the greater San Francisco community by referring off-campus resources and collaborating with off-campus organizations for events.
  • Free safer sex supplies: internal and external condoms (latex and non latex, lubricated and non lubricated), water and silicone based lubricant, dental dams, gloves, wet wipes, plan B, pregnancy tests, finger condoms, and latex underwear.
  • Harm Reduction Supplies: Naloxone and fentanyl test strips
  • Judgment-free peer education
  • A lending library of academic, pornographic, fictional, and instructional books and DVDs.
  • A referral database for on and off campus sexuality related resources.
  • HIV/STI Support Group: Mondays 5-6pm *(Cancellations will be posted on our office door and Instagram page)

HIV/STI Support Group

Pink and red informational flyer for the HIV/STI EROS Support Group.

Join Our Team

Join our internship program! We offer a semester-based internship and volunteer opportunities for students with applications open at the beginning of each semester.


EROS Lending Library

Check out EROS's lending library that contains books and resources about safe sex and more!

Click the buttons below to see our library database and the other button to checkout a book!

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RSVP To Our Events

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Our Office

Our Events

PODCASTS

ARTICLES

A close-up shot of a dark shelf holding a row of educational books on health and sexuality. Tucked between the books is a light-colored wooden anatomical phallic model standing upright.

EROS provides safe space for sexual health education

Close-up side view of hands interacting over a purple-clothed event table outdoors. A student is reaching out to accept a condom from a volunteer, while educational health resources and a clipboard sit arranged on the desk.

Dildos don’t bite; they’re alright

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"Kink!" workshop demonstrates safety within BDSM community

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Campus groups advise women to care for their bodies during national Women’s Health and Fitness Day

PAST EVENTS

Events

Open House
An invitation for students to explore the EROS office, including its safer sex supplies, harm reduction materials, and sexual health library. This casual event introduces students to available resources in a welcoming and low-pressure environment. Two students interacting inside colorful EROS office room decorated with glowing string lights. One student presenting the room while the other watches.
Spring Social

A casual community-building event aimed at helping students become familiar with the EROS office and staff. The event fosters trust and encourages students to feel comfortable accessing services and asking questions.

Cupid's Dash
A Valentine’s Day social co-hosted with the Queer & Trans Resource Center. Designed to create a safe space for students to connect, relax, engage in crafts, and build friendships in a supportive, inclusive environment. Students sit at long tables arranged in a horseshoe shape inside a dimly lit auditorium with pink and red stage lights. In the center foreground, a standing student talks to two seated peers, while a large projector screen displays a digital timer reading 1:03 in pink numbers.
Pride Prom
A celebratory social event in partnership with the Queer & Trans Resource Center, providing queer students with a joyful space to express themselves, connect, and dance in an affirming setting. Two individuals stand side-by-side on a red carpet at a Pride Prom celebration. They are posing playfully for a photo in front of a white step-and-repeat backdrop wall featuring pink and purple Associated Students logos.
Sex Trivia Night
An engaging trivia night in collaboration with Health Promotion and Wellness, covering topics such as STIs, consent, polyamory, BDSM, and queer identities. Students collaborate in teams to answer questions, learn new information, and reduce stigma around sexuality in a fun, judgment-free setting. Students crowd and gather around square purple covered tables in a student center room.

Workshops & Educational Programming

Healthy Relationships Workshop

In collaboration with La Casa de las Madres, this interactive workshop explores key elements of healthy relationships, including trust, safety, autonomy, and self-determination. It also examines how to support young people in navigating unhealthy relationships while affirming their agency.

Two students stand and present ‘Healthy, Warning Signs, or Unhealthy’ slideshow using TV in student center room.

PrEP Workshop

Hosted with Bridge HIV, this workshop provides information about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) as an HIV prevention method, and includes broader sexual health education on STIs and risk reduction strategies.

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Exploring BDSM

Presented by Good Vibrations and Dr. Carol Queen, this educational session introduces students to BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism). Topics include negotiation, roles (such as top/bottom), consent, and safety practices to ensure informed and respectful exploration.

Students gather around an educational resource table indoors to browse pamphlets and look at anatomical models.

Rope and Sensation Play

Led by certified sex educator Jamie Joy, this hands-on workshop covers rope bondage, wax play, and electro play. The class emphasizes safety, consent, communication, and aftercare, offering both technique demonstrations and identity exploration.

A side-view shot of five students seated at a long wooden table during a workshop, facing the front of the room where a large screen is mounted on the wall.

G-Spot Workshop
Also in partnership with Good Vibrations and Dr. Carol Queen, this session debunks myths around the G-spot and educates students about pelvic anatomy, erotic techniques, and the potential for orgasm and squirting. The workshop supports body literacy and pleasure education. A presenter dressed in black stands behind a wooden table, holding and demonstrating an anatomical model of the female reproductive system at the front of the room.
Strap-On 101 Workshop
 A beginner-friendly workshop with Dr. Carol Queen and Good Vibrations staff focusing on strap-on play. Topics include toy selection, harnesses, solo and partnered play, and how strap-on sex can intersect with gender expression and intimacy. A presenter stands behind wooden table presenting 'Strap-On Play' slideshow to the room.
Reproductive Freedom Workshop

Co-hosted with the Reproduction and Health Equity Hub, this session equips students with knowledge and advocacy tools to protect reproductive rights and abortion access, both personally and within their communities. 

Poly Workshop
Facilitated by EROS Director Camila Hernández, this session introduces polyamory, addresses common concerns like jealousy and stigma, and explores different relationship structures and their benefits. A student sits and presents a slideshow on polyamory behind a rounded wooden table indoors.

Interactive Tabling & Outreach

Sexy Book Expo
A World Book Day tabling event promoting the EROS sexual health library. Students are encouraged to browse sex-positive literature and learn more about healthy sexuality through accessible educational materials. Students browse books and educational resources displayed on a brightly decorated table during an indoor campus outreach event.
Sexuality Career Fair
A fair to network and explore community resources, and learn about careers in public health and sex education. A panel of speakers sit at the front of the auditorium at the 'Sexuality Career Fair' with a presentation on the projector behind them.
Survivor Support Services
Survivor Support Services is a a resource fair to provide support services for domestic violence survivors. A presenter with a microphone stands on Malcolm X Plaza platform outdoors with 'Education and Referral Organization for Sexuality' outreach table in front lined with informational resources with a tree and the J. Paul Leonard library behind her.

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