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Oswalt Kolle, Amsterdam:
Hilfe bei sexuellen Problemen in den Niederlanden
(Help with Sexual Problems in the Netherlands)
The author considers the cultural differences between The Netherlands and Germany and explains why a structurally different and very pragmatic counseling approach is successful in the Netherlands. A highly secular society with an extremely sharp separation between state and church forms the basis for dealing with sexual problems without ideology, individual-oriented, and very calmly relaxed. This accounts for striking differences between both neighboring countries. While in Germany there are, aside from a few private therapists, initiatives or institutes maintained by sexological societies (like the DGSS-Institute for Sexual Counseling), only the counseling offices of Pro Familia and Deutsche Aidshilfe (German AIDS Help) - both of which had their public financial assistance funds reduced -, people in The Netherlands meet with a wide support net: from family doctors and GPs schooled by continuing education to numerous publicly funded institutions. The author deals with the practical results of this system as well as its ongoing deficits.
About the Author:
Oswalt Kolle, born in 1928, German-born Dutch science journalist, became famous in the Sixties as a popular sex educator in German mass media. He has numerous popular books on sexuality (e. g., Deine Frau, das unbekannt Wesen - "Your wife, that unknown being") and eight motion pictures (e. g., Dein Mann, das unbekannte Wesen - "Your husband, that unknown being") to his credit which were published, translated, and distributed world-wide. In 2000 he was awarded the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Medal for Sexual Reform.
Kolle has made his bisexuality public (book publication: Nach beiden Seiten offen - "Open to both sides"). He has been living for many years as a Dutch citizen in Amsterdam. A widower after fifty years with his wife, Kolle has three children and two grandchildren living in Amsterdam.
Address:
Oswalt Kolle, Albecht-Dürer-Straat 33:hs, NL-1077 LW Amsterdam
Tel. (0031 20) 67 90 983; eMail: oswalt@kolle.nl
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