[Psycho-social and sexology study of women with florid genital condylomatosis].

During the last 20 years studies about sexual transmitted diseases have introduced decisive changes in the knowledge of both their pathogenesis and pathology and their clinical treatment. Only nowadays the psychological aspects of the diseases have been taken into consideration. Our research studied particularly the life style of women affected by florid condylomatosis.

[Cultural identification of patients with sexually transmitted diseases].

The authors considered psychological problems concerning the communication to patients about a diagnosis of Sexual Transmitted Disease and particularly of HPV disease. In the past this sort of affection was related to some well identified social groups, but with the recent changes in sexual behavior, cultural and moral principles, the reference models are changed too. Consequently today it is difficult to recognize a rigid identification.