To the editor:

I took Dennis Dailey’s human sexuality course on the graduate level as an elective for my master’s degree in counseling psychology.

I sense that people sometimes forget that Dr. Dailey is teaching these courses to prepare social workers to practice their profession. Social work students will eventually be working in hospitals, mental health clinics, homeless shelters, and prisons, serving a huge variety of people. In my experience, the information in Dr. Dailey’s human sexuality class prepares social workers, in a very thorough way, to handle the sexual content of any potential client issue they may encounter.

The fact that thousands of non-social-work students choose to take Dr. Dailey’s courses as an elective, and not as a requirement for graduation, says to me that students are hungry for information about sexuality. This is a topic not adequately discussed anywhere else, but in Dr. Dailey’s class it is openly and thoroughly discussed in a matter-of-fact way, making sexuality a part of everyday life, as it is.

I see it as very dangerous to deny opportunities for learning of any kind when there are informed professors and students willing to learn, no matter how taboo the topic. Especially when studying that topic could help students prepare for their profession.

Susan Mikesic,

Lawrence