Sex, disability and sexual freedom
People with physical disabilities They have unique beliefs, experiences and challenges with sexuality and romance that are rarely included in academic literature (Yoshida et al., 1999). The extensive difficulty of people with disabilities, as sex beings have left a gap in knowledge of the full range of human sexuality. Systematic separation often creates challenges for people with physical disabilities in expressing their sexual identities and participation in romantic relationships. These challenges can lead others to confront them and wait to behave as silent present in their lives (Shakespeare et al., 1996). Social regulations encourage beliefs that people with physical disabilities are unable to exercise the same sexual freedoms as their sufficient peers (Kangaude & Phil, 2009).
Feelings of deficiency and barriers facing people with disabilities as sexual beings are the result of life experiences (Taleptros & McCabe, 2002, Cole & Cole, 1993, Toper, 2003, Gordon, Tschopp & Feldman, 2004, Shakespeare, Gillespie-Sens, 1996). People with physical disabilities are bombarded with negative disability representations depicting those who “suffer” from disability as asxual, unattractive, unworthy and incapable of participating in sexual behavior by physical, emotional and mental perspectives (Shakespeare, Gillespie-Sens & Davies, 1996).
Sex, disability and stigma
Goffman’s stigma theory He assumes that disabilities are one of the three types of stigma known as “Abummations of the Body” (41). He explains that when a person without a disability meets a person with disabilities, he immediately observes and recognizes the “trait of the other person who is deeply defamed” (Goffman, 43, 1986). This recognition leads to the mark, a term referring to “physical signs designed to expose something unusual and bad for the moral state of the traffic light” (Goffman, 14, 1986).
Although the two people have just met, the development of the stigma leads the capable person to make assumptions based on a unique trait, such as the belief that because man has a disability, he is unattractive, disrespectful and unconditional, thus discovering the individual as a possible romantic partner (2002, 2002). In essence, disability becomes a label that has all the possibility that eliminates other characteristics for the individual. A study of negotiating the physical space between those with and without disabilities found that capable individuals create less natural space with each other and other capable people than by people with disabilities, proving that there is social concern associated with disability (Taleporos & McCabe, 2002).
The label of disability
This sense of concern can cause capable people to maintain the distance between them and to those who realize that they have a disability. This procedure prevents further interaction between the two people who could defame some of the assumptions that the sufficient person has for the person with disabilities. Because there is no further conversation, the power of the label of disability remains. It is important to recognize that the way we treat people has consequences. The most immediate impact is that the negative cases of the absence of sexual desire for people with disabilities are common among the general population. We believe that people with disabilities have no sexual interest, but research has shown that they do it.
For example, in Research for adolescents with physical disabilities and sexuality conducted by Berman et al. (1999), 83 percent of respondents between 12 and 18 years old said they were expected to have sex in the future. During their interviews with women aged 30 and 80 with physical disabilities, including, inter alia, sclerosis, polio, optician and hearing, Yoshida et al., (1995) found that participants often expressed significant concern about increased complexity. their wishes to find a partner. These and other studies (Wilder, 2005, Fink et al., 1968) show that people with physical disabilities have sexual needs, desires and expectations for romantic relationships.
Disability is not equal to asexual
Cases that add those who have physical disabilities as asexual They are also problematic because they perpetuate stereotypes that lead to ongoing isolation, separation, depression, bad body image, loneliness, frustration and feelings of failure (Taleptros & McCabe, 2002). These feelings of deficiency are further reinforced by overwhelming institutional inequalities, making Americans with disabilities more likely than capable citizens being unpublished, unemployed and live in poverty (Cornell University American Community Survey, 2008).
If we want to go on to create more opportunities for people with disabilities, we need to start by shifting our prospect for disability. The experiences of my participants confirm that the process of socializing and dealing with them differently due to disability are at the core of their frustrations. This means that their challenges do not come from their own disabilities, but from how others deal with them. Instead of accepting and perpetuating an outdated medical perception of disability that labels and criticizes, it would give us a shift our perspective to one that recognizes disability as a socially constructed phenomenon.
Considering disability as something we create that affects the way we treat people with disabilities, we can change our minds about what disability means. Hugging a respected perspective is based on raising awareness and recognition of people with disabilities seeking companionship and sexual delegation, as well as their sufficient peers, can improve life for people with disabilities, as well as those who do not.
