To provide a faculty of persons who are both academically trained and professionally competent in the field of human sexuality.

To provide the means whereby people working in the area of human sexuality may receive additional academic and professional training and recognition for quality work and where they, as students in the field, may assist each other in increasing their competence and effectiveness.

To provide suitable resource materials consisting of a large library of films, slides, tapes and videotapes; a research and basic source library of books, publications and original research; and physical facilities for counseling, classroom work, and media development and viewing.

To provide courses, seminars, supervised practica in counseling and educational methods, supervised research, guided study, training in media development and use.

To provide academic guidance to projects and dissertations of candidates that will make contributions to the understanding of human sexuality.

To create materials.

To create and evaluate new educational methodologies.

To develop and maintain access to institutions, networks, and individuals. To integrate information systems with allied professions and, from a centralized sexological standpoint, gather the data on sex, which are spread through the fields of history, art, literature philosophy, the social sciences, religion, law and law enforcement, medicine, and through the quantity of materials in the contemporary marketplace served by modern media and technology.

To create an archive of historical and contemporary sexological material and to sort, catalog and preserve it for the future.

Through video and audio recording, to record: (1) the history of our own Institute and (2) the contemporary history of our field. These recordings include formal, scientific presentations and autobiographical and anecdotal material by important contributors to sexology.

To create an environment for the objective study of human sexuality--independent of outside interference. To provide protection to people and materials in the field of sexology.

The Exodus Trust is a non-profit California Trust that has as its sole and exclusive purpose to perform educational, scientific and literary functions relating to sexual, emotional, mental and physical health. The Exodus Trust owns 100% of the stock of the Institute and guarantees protection against outside interference. Like all graduate institutions, subsidy is needed to assure a high quality of education. Two funds have been set up to receive charitable contributions: the Exodus Trust General Support Fund and the Scholarship Fund.