(Italy - Story update) 'Disabled people should have right to sex help'
'Disabled people should have right to sex help'
In early June, the mother of a disabled Italian man called for the role of sexual assistants to be legalized. The Local talks to Maximiliano Ulivieri, who has launched a campaign to change Italian legislation and mindsets.
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Maximiliano Ulivieri is a web designer and social media manager. He was also once a singer in a rock band. He is 43 years old and has been married to Enza since 2008.
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Max is now working on another challenge: to regulate the profession of a sexual assistant for disabled people in Italy.
Attempting to crack the taboo of disability and sex, particularly in Italy, is a bold move. Few people would be brave enough to try. But Max says he has gathered the support of thousands, including a number of politicians, since the campaign got underway.
He would like Italy to follow in the footsteps of Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark, where the role of sexual assistant has legal status.
“We’re talking about people being properly trained to become a sexual assistant,” he said. “It would be for people who are severely disabled, people who are unable to discover their body or move freely.”
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It was also a matter of heated debate in France earlier this year, after the National Consultative Ethics Committee rejected the idea, saying it saw too great a risk of abuse.
Still, French MP Jérôme Guedj is attempting to push ahead with the creation of the country’s first sexual assistance service for severely disabled people in his region of Essonne Gernal. He rejected the ethics committee’s suggestions that the services will constitute a form of prostitution and told French newspapers in March that it would be free of charge and run by charities for the disabled using voluntary workers.
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