The Doctolib site announced on Monday, August 22 the suspension of 17 profiles of practitioners linked to Irène Grosjean, the figure of naturopathy in France. The controversy comes following the broadcast of a video in which the influential 92-year-old practitioner, at the head of millions of views on YouTube, promotes sexual touching to treat young children.
In the extract relayed on Twitter by the collective “L’Extracteur”, Irène Grosjean recommends “Louis Kuhne’s friction sitz bath” to treat a girl or a baby suffering from fever.
“At first he [l’enfant] won’t agree”, can be heard in the video. ” You have to sit the child on a basin, and you’re going to put ice cubes in it, ice water, very cold, and with a washcloth, rub your lips, and obviously you’re going to touch the clitoris, which will stimulate the sympathetic system and strengthen it” until the child falls asleep, continues Irène Grosjean.
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In the same video, the autodidact recommends a similar method in the treatment of baby boys, while ensuring that after “Ten minutes, the fever no longer exists. »
The sharing of the excerpt aroused the anger of many Internet users, who immediately called on Doctolib to confront the platform with its responsibilities as a regulator. For several days, Doctolib has already been in turmoil to hosting the profile of many naturopaths: on Friday, the company defended itself in several tweets, explaining that “for clear information, the practitioners’ pages [naturopathes] bear several times, and from the top of the page, the words “This practitioner exercises an unregulated profession”.
“On this subject, society is changing and, for example, certain patient associations are promoting access to complementary therapies. We consider that it is not the role of Doctolib to settle these debates. »
