Thanks to successful Nordic collaboration the withdrawal of fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, and sadomasochism as mental illnesses can lead to the same pride and freedom that other queer groups enjoy. Sweden was the first country in the world to entirely remove all the three diagnoses from their national ICD list in Norway, Finland and Iceland followed suit in , and , respectively. Sweden removed their national fetish and bdsm diagnoses patterned after the Revise F65 model.
The decision of the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare Socialstyrelsen in , started the same process in the rest of the Nordic countries, and at last the final adoption of the World health organization, Skeid says.
Consensual sexuality has nothing to do with psychiatry. This is an immensely important recognition of the sexual diversity among us, she says. Human rights standards are part of the professional basis for the reform and the recommendations from Revise F65 are entirely taken into account. After more than 20 years of sexual political efforts the Revise F65 committee, with Svein Skeid in the lead, has fulfilled its mandate both nationally and internationally, she says.
The woman was so glad Revise F65 did this work so she has a defense. Polish Marcin has been in contact with Revise F65 since June 21, he writes:. In a short space of time the international encouragement to get out and be who I am has done what years and years of angst and stress failed to achieve.
Thanks guys, a huge thanks! More reactions June 22, Now our leather and rubber communities can grow and we can wear our gear proudly. Thanks for all your efforts to bring our amazing community out of the WHO biggot list once and for all. After a while Revise F65 achieved direct contact with the authorities in Geneva. Reed asked for additional evidence, and November 11, ReviseF65 delivered a 50 page summary of research based knowledge, documenting that sadomasochism and sexual violence are two different phenomena.
