During her participation in
the 6th Cuban Congress on Education, Guidance and Sexual
Therapy held this week at Havana’s Convention Center, the
official praised the commitment of Cuban authorities to the
treatment of current questions on sex diversity, still a
thorny problem in Europe.
The island’s advances in this regard can be an example to
other countries still dealing, from a hesitant position,
with the rights of human beings to the free orientation of
their sexuality, asserted Simonelli.
In addition, the researcher highlighted the studies carried
out in Cuba on transsexualism and sex therapies, health
campaigns and prevention in general.
She specified that, unlike other countries where they’re
purely clinical and sometimes discriminatory, since they’re
assumed as a search for alleged pathological aberrations,
these studies are made with human and scientific approach.
The meeting was a good framework to articulate institutional
and regional alliances, in order to implement sex education
strategies integrated to processes of social changes, stated
the president of the European Federation of Sexology.
Chiara Simonelli is also part-time professor of Clinical
Sexology and Psychology at the La Sapienza University in
Rome, and the author of scientific publications and
theoretical-experimental works in this field.
