The agency will remove transvestism, fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, sadomasochism, gender-identity disorder in youth and multiple disorders of sexual preferences from the list.

”We don’t want to contribute to certain sexual behaviors being thought of as diseases,” said board director Lars-Erik Holm. ”These diagnoses are rooted in a time when everything other than the heterosexual missionary position was seen as sexual perversions.”

Homosexuality was removed from the list 30 years ago.

Rex Wockner