List of universities with BDSM clubs

Universities having BDSM clubs are a modern phenomenon, especially in USA.[1][2] Some of these student-clubs dedicated to BDSM (along with sexual fetishism and kink) are officially recognized and funded by their university or college administration.[3][4]

Safe rope bondage is generally an activity taught in BDSM clubs of universities. This representational image shows a bondage rigger performing bondage on a female volunteer.

Following is a list of universities which have BDSM education providing student clubs:

• USA
  • Brown University[1]
  • California State University, Northridge[5]
  • Columbia University's BDSM club Conversio Virium[6][7][8]
  • Cornell University[9]
  • Durham University[10]
  • Harvard University[11][12][13][14]
  • Iowa State University's BDSM club Cuffs.[15]
  • Indiana University Bloomington[16]
  • Kent State University[17]
  • MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)[1]
  • Mount Holyoke College (an all-women college)[18][19]
  • Molloy College [20]
  • Northwestern University[21]
  • Ohio State University[22]
  • Pennsylvania State University[23][24]
  • Princeton University[25][26]
  • San Francisco State University[27]
  • Stanford University[28]
  • Stony Brook University[29]
  • Tufts University[1]
  • UC Berkeley[30]
  • University of California, Los Angeles[31]
  • University of California, Santa Barbara[32]
  • University of Chicago[33][34]
  • University of Connecticut[35]
  • University of Michigan[36][37]
  • University of Minnesota[38]
  • University of Pennsylvania[1]
  • University of South Carolina[39]
  • University of Southern California[40]
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison[41][42]
  • Washington University in St. Louis[43]
  • Wesleyan University[44][45]
  • Yale University[1]

Additionally, there are many American universities which do not have a dedicated BDSM club but conduct awareness activities on BDSM for students, for ex. University of South Florida St. Petersburg.[46][47][48]

Some American universities - such as Texas Tech University,[49] Indiana University[50] and Michigan State University have professors who conduct research and take curriculum classes on BDSM.[51][52][53][54][55]

A few U.S. university presses, such as that of Duke University, Indiana University and University of Chicago, have also published books on BDSM written by professors.[56]

• Canada
  • McGill University[57]
  • University of Calgary[58]
  • York University[57]
• United Kingdom
  • Birmingham University[59]
  • Dundee University[60]
  • Imperial College London[61][62]
  • University of East Anglia[63]
  • University of Lincoln[64]
  • University of Portsmouth[65]
  • University of York[66]
• Belgium
  • Ghent University[67]
• Finland
  • University of Helsinki[68][69]
• Taiwan
  • National Taiwan Normal University[70]
  • National Taiwan University[71]