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'''ReviseF65''' is a committee that is working to get sexual [[Sadism and Masochism|sadism, masochism]], [[fetishism]] and [[transvestic fetishism]] abolished from the [[World Health Organization]]'s list of [[psychiatric]] diagnoses, [[ICD]]. The committee is also involved in general work against discrimination and harassment of [[sadomasochist]]s.
The committee was started at the national convention of LLH - the [[Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation]] - in [[1998]]. As part of the background for ReviseF65 was a national survey among the members of LLH in [[1996]], where a big majority of the members replied that they were against discrimination of leather, SM and [[transgender]] people.
However, the ReviseF65 committee is working for all sadomasochists, not only the [[gay]] and [[lesbian]] sadomasochists.
The committee has members from LLH, several Norwegian SM clubs, and professionals in [[sexology]], [[psychology]] and [[psychiatry]] in [[Norway]] and other countries.
The committee is working nationally in Norway, but also internationally. ReviseF65 is spreading information about [[sadomasochism]] and the situation of sadomasochism in connection with national laws and the ICD. Members of the committee have taken part in several workshops, congresses and seminars both in Norway and in other countries.
At its [[1999]] conference the umbrella organization for European gay and lesbian rights, [[European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Association|European ILGA]], issued a statement supporting the efforts to remove the diagnoses from the ICD. In [[2000]] the more than 50 member clubs of the gay leather umbrella organization [[European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs]], ECMC, decided to support the Revise F65 effort.
ReviseF65 is supported by [[International Mister Leather]] 2003, [[John Pendal]].
The leader of the ReviseF65 committee is [[Svein Skeid]].
ReviseF65 is now by far the most active and visible group working with sexual politics and human rights for sadomasochists and fetishists in Norway.
==Background Information==
* In 1995 as the first EU country [[Denmark]] has completely removed sadomasochism from its national classification of diseases.<ref>compare [http://www.revisef65.org/denmark.html]</ref>
==References==
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==Literature==
* Peggy J. Kleinplatz, [[Charles Moser]]: Sadomasochism - Powerful Pleasures; Haworth Press; ISBN 978-1-56023-640-5
* {{cite journal |author=Reiersøl O, Skeid Svein |title=The ICD diagnoses of fetishism and sadomasochism |journal=Journal of homosexuality |volume=50 |issue=2-3 |pages=243–62 |year=2006 |pmid=16803767 |doi=}}
==External links==
* [http://www.revisef65.org ReviseF65's website]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reviseF65 ReviseF65's forum/mailing list on Yahoo]
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