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Monday November 7, 2005
Canadian Psych Hospital Promotes Patient Sex with Private Rooms, On-Demand Porn
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By Terry Vanderheyden
BEAUPORT, Quebec, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A psychiatric hospital in Quebec has initiated a program to facilitate patient's sexual relations, by providing them with private rooms equipped with beds, television, and on-demand pornographic videos and magazines.
LifeSiteNews.com spoke with University of Laval-associated Centre Hospitalier Robert-Giffard's director of communications, Catherine Lassard, who confirmed the program, emphasizing it was a hospital-initiated measure.
The trial run will allow 60 patients access to the program and if successful, be made available to all 700 residents in six months time.
Nicole-Gagnon, the hospital's ombudswoman and the person responsible for the program, told the Toronto Sun that "By facilitating patients' sexual relations, we want to make sex a positive rather than a negative experience."
In September, LifeSiteNews.com reported on caregivers in Australia and Denmark who were bringing in prostitutes to have sexual relations with disabled clients.
An Australian Disability Services' guideline included a section titled "Access to a Sex Worker." It stated, "Sex workers should be seen as one of a number of options to consider when supporting people with disabilities to make decisions about their sexual needs." The directors of the Australian program said that guidelines existed for social service funds to be made available should individuals be unable to pay their own way.
Contact the hospital to express your concerns:
http://www.rgiffard.qc.ca/ecrivez_nous/index.asp
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Australian and Danish Governments Providing Prostitutes for the Disabled
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/sep/05093003.html
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