[Faith-talk] sex assistants' for the disabled

[Aleeha Dudley]

I find that absolutely appalling, but I don't quite get what it has to do with faith other then it goes against everything I believe. 

Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas 
Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students
Blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com
"The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb 
 
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> On Oct 7, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Philip Blackmer via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> This is no joke!  I wanted to let people know about this and see what they
> have to say about it.  The article is a couple of months old, but I thought
> it might be quite a conversation starter.  Also for those who are interested
> it came from 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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