Harvard Medical School Course Teaches Affirming Care for Patients Involved in Adultery, BDSM
“Providing Affirming Care for Patients Who Engage in Kink, BDSM, Fetish, Swinging, Ethical Non-Monogamy, Polyamory, and Open Arrangements”
Is this what you imagine when you think of Harvard Medical School?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard class trains doctors to support patients in adultery and BDSM
A Harvard Medical School course teaches enrollees how to provide “affirming care” for patients involved in adulterous and sadomasochist sexual lifestyles.
The continuing education course, “Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health: A Course for the Whole Healthcare Team,” is not yet scheduled for 2023, but the university wants to open the class up as a national learning opportunity for healthcare professionals. The class is offered by the Fenway Institute, an LGBT advocacy organization.
One section of the 2022 course agenda contained the presentation “Alternative Sexualities in Healthcare: Providing Affirming Care for Patients Who Engage in Kink, BDSM, Fetish, Swinging, Ethical Non-Monogamy, Polyamory, and Open Arrangements.”
BDSM stands for bondage, dominance and sadomasochism, according to WebMD.
“Expert faculty” teach practicing doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals “about providing high-quality care for adults, adolescents, and children who are transgender and gender diverse.”
The College Fix asked Harvard how health professionals would benefit from learning about non-monogamy, BDSM and kink.
A school spokesperson told The Fix: “This four-day-long course has been offered for eight years and includes a one-hour session added three years ago in response to requests from clinicians looking to improve their understanding of the medical and health aspects of diverse intimate relationships, which are practiced by patients of all gender identities and sexual orientations.”
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True affirming care: “Stop doing this weird stuff! Do you WANT incurable diseases and destructive relationships? Come on, you can do better!”
“Is this what you imagine when you think of Harvard Medical School?”
It is now. We should make sure others do, too.
Meanwhile, I’d like to review the unit on extemporaneous luggage selection.
I’m so old I remember watching porn on my own time, and dime.
This sounds more like cleaning up the damage from porn’s blooper reels.
There is a huge difference between people involved in BDSM, swinging, and other alternative lifestyles and being transsexual.
Most “affirming care” for people in these lifestyles generality involves treating routine problems and understanding that your patient’s lifestyle choices are your patient’s. Transgender “affirmative care” is very different. In lumping them together Harvard is trying to normalize hormones and surgeries by including them with lifestyle choices that don’t involve changing your patient’s underlying anatomy or physiology.
Every time the discussing comes back to transgender. It shouldn’t.