Discussing the sexuality of individuals with disabilities requires the destruction of prejudices and the flexibility to grasp opposing opinions to make clear ideas.
Melanie seas to Australia.
A BBC report printed this Tuesday, 10, is circulating round and has gained some prominence. It tells the story of Melanie, 43 years outdated, who has transverse myelitis, a sort of irritation of the spinal twine, and has used a wheelchair for 4 many years.
Melanie lives in Australia, had by no means had intercourse and determined to rent a name boy named Chayse to have her first intimate relationship.
My response after I noticed this headline, earlier than studying the article, was to query why it was needed to inform this story. Why do we have to know {that a} lady with a incapacity selected to lose her virginity to an escort?
At first, I couldn’t perceive the relevance of this agenda, till I learn an excerpt: “In response to a survey printed by the UK authorities in 2021 (UK Incapacity Survey), solely 56% of Britons mentioned they might really feel comfy in an intimate relationship with an individual with a incapacity”.
This data exhibits the significance of this dialogue.
I additionally had a chat concerning the article with Jairo Marques, from Folha, one thing we do rather a lot, fortunately for me, and which regularly helps me break down my caught ideas.
The BBC story is properly finished, respectful and informative and, proper at the start, explains that Melanie had by no means been touched in a non-medical manner.
Are you able to consider this query extra deeply? By no means being touched in a non-medical manner signifies that there was by no means affection, affection or an expression of emotions by means of pores and skin contact.
The reality is that we actually want conversations with individuals with opposing opinions, completely different concepts and unprecedented arguments to interrupt down the numerous private boundaries that we nonetheless preserve.
Melanie had by no means been touched in a non-medical manner.
