Background Information
- In 1995 as the first EU country Denmark has completely removed sadomasochism from its national classification of diseases.
- On 1 January 2009, Sweden removed sadomasochism, fetishism, transvestism, fetishistic transvestitism, multiple disorders of sexual preferences and gender identity disorder in youth from its national classification of diseases.
- On 1 February 2010, Norway removed fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, sadomasochism, multiple disorders of sexual preference, and transvestism from their version of the national classification of diseases.
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