Promoting “Sexual Healthˮ in Pragmatic Logic. Sexual Surrogacy in Switzerland

By Lucie Nayak
English

Sexual surrogate services are now proposed to disabled people in Switzerland. This article shows that in the pragmatic logic of sexual surrogacy, transgression of sexual norms doesn't aim at questioning the dominant sexual order. It is on the contrary viewed as a tool to promote the conformist ideal of sexual health to disabled persons that this recent activity contributes to maintain in a “liminalityˮ status.

Keywords

  • sexual assistance
  • sexual norms
  • sexual health
  • disability
  • Switzerland
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