title: [Public health and sexuality].
abstract: The paper questions the legitimacy and relevance of a potential emergence of any public health policies relating to sexology, as they exist for most of the major medical issues. It discusses the two major areas of intervention of sexology namely problems related to access to pleasure on the one hand, violence, abuse and other sexual perversions on the other hand. The legitimacy and relevance of public health policy to prevent the latter, i.e. sexual violence cannot be questioned. However, interventions to promote erotic skills are beyond the role and responsibility of the State but can be assigned to the civil society, especially community associations engaged in culture, solidarity and the promotion of social links in general.
authors.forename: Jean-pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Papart
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000517:prevention & control; D019529:Sexuality