[Sexuality between couples in palliative care, from the taboo to the possible]

Nurses are frequently confronted with issues around the theme of sexuality often poorly formulated by the patients or those close to them and rarely taken into account by the teams. The teams are often isolated by the confidential nature of their exchanges with the patient, weakened by their own reactions or representations of sexuality, helpless due to the absence of training or reflections on this subject. In the framework of a palliative approach sensitive to the patient as a whole person, a reflection on this theme has enabled some areas of care on which to focus to be envisaged.