Sex ed nonprofit does broadband, not bananas

What began as a simple Internet sexual Q&A column nearly 20 years ago — Go Ask Alice! — has grown into a nonprofit corporation that disseminates sexual health information via electronic tools such as text messaging and social media.

"It seems like nothing now but it was quite groundbreaking," said Levine, who created ISIS — an acronym for Internet Sexuality Information Services and homage to the Egyptian fertility goddess of the same name — in 2001 amid a syphilis outbreak in San Francisco. Back then, Levine's goal was to reach men congregating online in sexual chat rooms.