Sexual Behavior and AIDS

Combating homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia and transphobia: A liberating and subversive educational alternative for desires

“…Let us briefly recall how in the history of Western sexuality the consideration of sex as a sin (Tissot, in L'Onanisme , published in 1760, classed as a disease what the Catholic Church considered to be a sin) evolved towards pathology in a paradigmatic work, Psychopathia Sexualis , writtenby the Russian physician Heinrich Kaan in 1843, in which the sins of the flesh were reinterpreted as diseases of the mind; the medicalisation of sin ( Haeberle, 2002 ). A later work, written by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing in 1886, wasalso published under the same title, Psychopatia Sexualis ( Hoenig, 1977 ).…”

Sexology as a challenge to the health care system: the Norwegian version

“…We can see this by the number of people organised in sexological organizations. Countries like France, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Holland and Finland have offered sexological education for many years (2). In Norway such an education has been offered since 2001, when Agder University College started an educational program in Basic Sexology and Sexological Counselling.…”

“…On May 6 th 1933, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in Berlin was closed and the library was burnt (1). The sexological profession has gradually recovered, and today it represents a strong, versatile and vigorous milieu (2,3,4). Sexology includes different scientific disciplines.…”