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"WAS, in its international position straddling all the world's continents, is ideal for hosting a truly integrative Sexual Health Congress. The Sydney Organising Committee has chosen "Achieving Health, Pleasure and Respect" as its theme. We will include all the topics that lead toward a happy healthy sexual individual /couple, and society, and all the scientific research that gives us the knowledge and skills to help our patients/clients achieve this state. We want to include "Sexual Pleasure" as a valid entitlement for all those who want it and ask for research on this area. And we want to keep improving the social structures around the world to allow people to live in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Montreal Declaration. Respect for individuals, no matter how different, and for people of different cultures, is crucial for a civilised world." Margaret Redelman M.D. President 18th Wold congress of sexology.

"Sexual health is coming of age. Sexual health represents the crystallization of many disciplines goals, objectives and activities: From the researcher working in the relative isolation of a laboratory doing the basics of sex research with molecules or animal models, to the clinician dealing with daily sexual concerns of patients, to the educator working to better prevent problems in his/her students future lives or to the social researcher trying to understand societal dynamics that determine social wellbeing.

The recent advances in the field of sexual medicine have created both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity comes from the fact that the powerful therapeutic tools developed represent a real form of help for many people. The challenge is to prevent, with these powerful tools at hand, an oversimplification of the complexity of human sexuality. This could create more harm than good. Sexual health is multidimensional and needs a multidisciplinary approach.

The 18 th World Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) (formerly World Association for Sexology) is a great opportunity for all interested professionals to increase their understanding of the fascinating interactions that characterize human sexuality." Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles M.D.,Ph.D. President World Association of Sexual Health.