ReviseF65

Logo of the ReviseF65

ReviseF65 is an international pansexual project group from Norway, which aims to remove the diagnostic keys fetishism , transvestism and sadomasochism from the " International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems " (ICD) published by the World Health Organization (WHO) , and not least through this also wants to achieve success in the work against the discrimination and prejudice of sadomasochists, fetishists and transvestites.

Emergence

By classifying erotic sadomasochism, fetishism and transvestism in the ICD under the code number F65 (disorders of sexual preference including paraphilia ), an unhealthy or pathological disorder is ascribed to these practices and lifestyles, similar to the earlier classification of homosexuality as a disease in the associated Subculture is fought. The name of the project arises from this key and the requirement for revision of the same ( revise : Engl. For revise, rethink). The project group does not fight the complete code number F65, but only the three sub-items F65.0, F65.1 and F65.5, which in this order stand for fetishism and transvestism and sadomasochism.

The project arose in 1996 and 1998 at the general assembly of the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation (LLH - Landsforeningen for lesbisk og homofil frigjøring ), a Norwegian organization for gays and lesbians , as a result of a survey from 1996 at which a clear majority of the members spoke out against the discrimination and stigmatization of the leather scene , the BDSMers and the transgender . Although founded by a gay and lesbian organization, ReviseF65 has worked for all BDSMers from the start, regardless of their inclination.

With the 21st European Conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) in Pisa in 1999, at which it was decided to support the project, ReviseF65 won important European support. Today more than 50 individual ILGA associations support the goals of the project. In 2000, at the general assembly of the European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs (ECMC) in Milan, it was also decided to set up a group with the same goal. In 2003 the Norwegian Association of Gay and Lesbian Physicians (HLLF - Association of Gay and Lesbian Doctors) and the Norwegian Society for Clinical Sexology (NFKS - Society for Clinical Sexual Sciences ) were won as supporters.

Today ReviseF65 is the most active and well-known group for the support of sex-political work and the human rights of sadomasochists and fetishists in Norway. The chairman of the committee is Svein Skeid.

Working method and dissemination

Analogous to the experiences of the organizations with the deletion of homosexuality as a disease, a deletion of F65.0, F65.1 and F65.5 from the ICD is most likely if several member countries of the WHO in their national classifications of the diseases sadomasochism, fetishism and transvestism as a disease requiring treatment, therefore the international education and the recruitment of project supporters in other countries is an essential part of the work of the project. Education about BDSM, fetishism and transvestism is part of the public relations work, as is the dissemination of information about the respective national legal status of sadomasochists and the ICD.

The initiators emphasize that every strategy should be adapted to the respective national or local circumstances, measures include the acquisition of supporters in national sexual science, psychological and psychiatric societies, influencing the political decision-makers in health administration and cooperation with others BDSM, fetish or gay and lesbian initiatives on a national level.

ReviseF65 has been represented on the Internet with a website since 2002, which is gradually being translated into other languages . The German version translated by Kathrin Passig has been online since 2003 and is being expanded. In addition to the Norwegian version, there is also an English and a Portuguese version, the Spanish version is in progress.

Members and participating organizations

In addition to organizational members of the LLH, the project consists of BDSM players, members of the leather scene and fetishists, who represent the various organizations from the homo-, bi- and heterosexual area of the scene, as well as psychologists , psychiatrists and sexologists in and outside Norway.

The national organizations involved include SLM-Oslo (Scandinavian Leather Men, Oslo), Verkstedet Smia-Oslo , SLM-Bergen (Scandinavian Leather Men, Bergen) and SMil Norge .

The project found important support in the European section of the International Lesbian and Gay Association , which was followed by a number of associations from the gay and lesbian sector.

Support of ReviseF65 in Germany

In Germany, the Bundesvereinigung Sadomasochismus (BVSM) cooperates with the ReviseF65 committee, with the BVSM archive (scientific BDSM library and historical archive) and the AK Psychologie (working group on psychology, sexology and related topics) as a corporate member of the BVSM.

SMart Rhein-Ruhr also supports the ICD project and worked together with non-governmental organizations from 1992 onwards, and with national scientific societies since 1996

BDSM Berlin is committed to the project in cooperation with the LLH, which includes public relations work and a directory of German " Kink Aware Professionals" .

The Fetish & BDSM Department at Ulm University also supports ReviseF65. The student initiative at Ulm University is committed to providing information, supporting research and teaching, and is building a specialist library.

The libraries and archives BDSM Library & Archive, Paper Tiger (Encyclopedia of sadomasochism) and the Datenschlag -Chronik of sadomasochism also sit down for a deletion of F65.0, F65.1 and F65.5 one.

Additional information

In the United States of America, the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), which corresponds to the national ICD, was significantly revised in 1994. Since then, sadomasochism has been viewed as a healthy sexual tendency, provided it does not interfere with the person's everyday life.

In 1995, Denmark was the first EU country to remove sadomasochism from its national classification list.

In Norway, on February 1, 2010, the corresponding diagnostic keys were removed from the catalog.

In Germany, in 1992, the German statutory health insurance physicians were to be obliged to record the diagnoses using the ICD-10 code by computer from 1996 onwards. Under Health Minister Horst Seehofer , the ICD was initially not introduced for reasons of data protection. The subsequent Minister of Health Andrea Fischer issued an ordinance for the mandatory introduction of the classification key on January 1, 2000. In Germany, sadomasochism is still under the key F65.5 in the ICD-10-GM, the modified German classification according to the WHO criteria Listed under "personality and behavioral disorders".

literature

Skeid Svein O Reiersøl: The ICD diagnoses of fetishism and sadomasochism. in: Journal of Homosexuality. New York 2006, No. 50, pp. 243-262. ISSN 0091-8369
Peggy J. Kleinplatz , Charles Moser : Sadomasochism - Powerful Pleasures. Haworth Press, New York 2006. ISBN 1560236396

Web links

Individual evidence

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↑ cf. SMart Rhine-Ruhr
↑ cf. BDSM Berlin e. V.
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