[Blindtlk] Fw: [acb-l] Sex assistants in Italy

[Michael Capelle]

oh my god, what are we coming to here, thoughts?

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What a novel concept!  Helping disabled folks to explore sexual escapades! 
Now all we need is audio described “how to” DVD’s. smile





From: acb-l [mailto:acb-l-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Frankeberger 
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Given our recent discussion of blindness and sex/health, I thought some 
might interested in the article below.  Best, Kevin with guide dog Tomasso







from Life Site News at www.lifesitenews.com.











sex assistants’ for the disabled



















? italy , sex assistants











ROME – Italy’s Senate is considered a bill introduced in April that would 
mandate the government to offer “sexual assistants” to people with physical, 
mental or cognitive disabilities.







The bill, which would bring Italy in line with other EU countries, proposes 
that these “assistants” should be male and female professional “sex workers”



who would help their clients gain “erotic, sensual or sexual experience and 
better address their internal energies” in order to help them “discharge 
dysfunctional feelings of anger and aggression.”







Disabled Italians will be eligible for government-funded “sex assistants”



through the Ministry of Health. They must have reached the age of majority, 
have completed the “compulsory education” program, signed a code of conduct, 
and be certified as to their “psycho-sexual suitability” by the local health 
authority.







The arrangement cannot “be the subject of a contract of employment,” the 
bill adds, but it “may be subject to cooperative self-employment 
cooperative.”







The bill’s explanatory note calls for the provision of “suitably trained”



persons to help disabled people “to explore their own body through acts of 
intimacy and masturbation.”







“Many people with disability can not independently maintain interpersonal 
relationships,” the explanatory note says, “because of a condition of 
reduced self-sufficiency in terms of mobility or because of a physical 
[condition] differing from the dominant aesthetic models that are considered 
attractive."







“In some cases, you add the impossibility of reaching satisfactory 
self-masturbation practices.” This situation, it adds, “can produce a state 
of affective and relational marginalization.”







The note cites a 1987 decision by the Constitutional Court that stated, 
“Sexuality being one of the essential ways of expression of the human 
person, the right to dispose it freely is undoubtedly an absolute individual 
right, which must be included among the subject positions directly protected 
by the Constitution and framed as the inviolable rights of the human person 
that Article 2 of the Constitution is required to guarantee.”







The bill, brought forward by Sen. Sergio Lo Giudice is being supported by 
Italian disability group Accordabili, which held a “day of study” in Fasano 
on June 13 for “industry insiders” on the theme, “The frontier of sexual 
assistance for the disabled. Issues and reflections.”







Italian supporters are saying that the “poetic” term being adopted for the 
sex assistants is not prostitute, but the neologism, “accarezzatrice” which 
roughly translates to a woman who caresses or strokes. At the time the bill 
was introduced in the Senate, Ansa.it, the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, 
and many other Italian news outlets started covering the story of a novel 
promoting the idea, “L’Accarezzatrice” by Giorgia Würth, a Swiss-Italian 
actress and television presenter.







“Often you compare it to a prostitute. The difference lies in training:



courses are of two years with doctors, psychologists and sexologists that 
make the person able to interface not only with the disabled client, but 
also with doctors and families,” Würth told the newspaper Il Fatto 
Quotidiano.







Sen. Lo Giudice is one of Italy’s most prominent homosexual activists and a 
cosponsor of the controverisal “anti-homophobia” bill. He was elected to the 
Senate last year after serving from 1998 to 2007 as the national president 
of Arcigay, the country’s leading homosexualist lobby group that has strong 
ties to the EU-funded ILGA Europe. Lo Giudice remains honourary president.







If the Senate passes the bill, it would bring Italy into line with laws in 
Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany. The European 
laws have inspired activists in other countries as well, including Canada, 
where a wheelchair-bound man in Quebec urged the province to fund ‘sex 
assistants’ last year.







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