Sadomasochism goes off the medical record in Sweden

The Board for Public Health and Social Care in Sweden will no longer be supporting the diagnosis and labelling of sadomasochism, sadism, fetishism, transvestism or "multiple aberrations of sexual preferences". All of those are to be barred from any further official use in hospital documents and journals, care prescriptions, forensic documents, court statements, medical testimonies and training of future psychologists, police personnel, social assistants and gynecologists. Today they're classed as mental disturbances or diseases, but no more so come January. Cheers! :)

Transsexualism and pedophilia will still be around for use in medical and judicial records ("without a transsexualism diagnosis it would be hard to monitor sex change therapy"). Homosexuality was written out of the medical record in Sweden in the same way in 1977, and gay marriage will probably pass through parliament within the next six months.

Its interesting to see how the rest of the World regards the BDSM commumnity.

Thanks Louise

Wow thats so great! Yet another reason why I should be living in Scandinavia.....
Thank you for sharing this :)

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Originally Posted by gagged_Louise

The Board for Public Health and Social Care in Sweden will no longer be supporting the diagnosis and labelling of sadomasochism, sadism, fetishism, transvestism or "multiple aberrations of sexual preferences". All of those are to be barred from any further official use in hospital documents and journals, care prescriptions, forensic documents, court statements, medical testimonies and training of future psychologists, police personnel, social assistants and gynecologists. Today they're classed as mental disturbances or diseases, but no more so come January. Cheers! :)

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yay, i'm normal :)

you mean i'm not insane and it's normal to want to tie a girl and have her serve my every whim, now what am i supposed to do to have a non vanilla lifestyle?

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Originally Posted by rsjankowski

you mean i'm not insane and it's normal to want to tie a girl and have her serve my every whim, now what am i supposed to do to have a non vanilla lifestyle?

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I don't think doctors or judges in Sweden are using the words "vanilla sex" either... ;)

good point, hm, how about non abnormal? or is it called vanilla sherbert now?

Pretty soon everything will be normal in Sweden

There goes my insanity defense....;)

Hmmmm....Wondering if i get a refund!? Removing the padded walls now!! woohoo

heheheheh, can't help but think of The Divine Comedy - Sweden ["i would love to live in Sweden, please don't ask me why"]
cheers for that :)

Good to hear. Given that most of the world also removed homosexuality from the lists of 'mental illnesses' in the 70s I hope this means the rest of the psychological world will be following soon with this.

Of course, I always prefer my personal definition of 'sanity' - I am sane, the rest of you lot are insane because you are different to me. Well, you have to have a ground state :)

omg, thats amazing.... And so much better than the states that seems to be moving backwards as often as forwards -pout- Maybe I'll move to sweden.

Yes it was a good thing, and about time for us here. Yes I live in sweden right now, though I spend some time in Norway, where things are quite not as tolerant as of yet.

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Originally Posted by fetishdj

Good to hear. Given that most of the world also removed homosexuality from the lists of 'mental illnesses' in the 70s I hope this means the rest of the psychological world will be following soon with this.

Of course, I always prefer my personal definition of 'sanity' - I am sane, the rest of you lot are insane because you are different to me. Well, you have to have a ground state :)

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Yeah, the papers will no doubt keep writing for many years about "Sadist style killings" and "the snitch girl had been tortured with sadistic cruelty by the hustlers" but at least one won't be able, in court, to say blankly as a reason "he's a sadist" or "the bugger's a leather fetishist and a spanko plus he wears women's clothing sometimes, he can't uphold a job as a teacher here!"

*applause*

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Originally Posted by Louise

The Board for Public Health and Social Care in Sweden will no longer be supporting the diagnosis and labelling of sadomasochism, sadism, fetishism, transvestism or "multiple aberrations of sexual preferences".

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I'm bettin' money that Tom had something to do with this. :p

Acceptance can usually make a day a bit brighter. Thanks for the info, Louise. :wave:

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Originally Posted by tessa

I'm bettin' money that Tom had something to do with this. :p

Acceptance can usually make a day a bit brighter. Thanks for the info, Louise. :wave:

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Of course, he invited the secretary for public health down to his club and tied her up. "I won't let you go until you've tasted some of how sweet this lifestyle is...you're gonna love this, lady..." She was totally captivated. :)

Yayyyy!

Now I will feel less awkward if I ever go to sweden >_>

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Originally Posted by gagged_Louise

Of course, he invited the secretary for public health down to his club and tied her up. "I won't let you go until you've tasted some of how sweet this lifestyle is...you're gonna love this, lady..." She was totally captivated. :)

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We have the exact same thought there, sweetie. :D

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Originally Posted by gagged_Louise

Yeah, the papers will no doubt keep writing for many years about "Sadist style killings" and "the snitch girl had been tortured with sadistic cruelty by the hustlers" but at least one won't be able, in court, to say blankly as a reason "he's a sadist" or "the bugger's a leather fetishist and a spanko plus he wears women's clothing sometimes, he can't uphold a job as a teacher here!"

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Well... they can say all that... however, they can't have an expert witness psychologist say all that in court without consequences. Rather than being an issue of psychological diagnosis (which has a lot more weight in a court) it is merely a description of what happened.

Sadistic is still a valid description of something done in those circumstances, it just is not necessarily a good description of what we do... but that is another debate.

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