[Faith-talk] sex assistants' for the disabled

Tue Oct 7 17:49:14 UTC 2014

Sick, but not unexpected from a European country.
Europe has been rather random in coming up with totally crazy things
in the last 5 or so years--google Denmark--I'm not even going there
because that's off topic.
I do agree with Aleeha  though, the message is completely off topic.

On 10/7/14, Aleeha Dudley via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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