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I'm watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire right now
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CravenTacos
Senior member
Oral ftw
Hiro Nakamura
Junior Member
:Q
SlowSpyder
Lifer
Sure... she still has a functioning jiner, right?
Tremulant
Diamond Member
I don't think I'd have a problem dating someone in a wheelchair, as long as 'everything' still worked.
My sister's been in a wheelchair her entire life (she was born with the most severe form of Spina bifida) and she has no use of her legs. Some of her friends are also physically challenged and I have no problems being around them.
edit: by 'everything', I think you know what I mean...
My sister's been in a wheelchair her entire life (she was born with the most severe form of Spina bifida) and she has no use of her legs. Some of her friends are also physically challenged and I have no problems being around them.
edit: by 'everything', I think you know what I mean...
Cerpin Taxt
Lifer
Being in a wheelchair =/= being sexually unable. Sometimes a person is both, but not always.
I don't know if I could be in a romantic relationship with a person whom I could not also be sexually intimate in the usual ways. If I could not pleasure my partner sexually, then I would not personally be satisfied.
I don't know if I could be in a romantic relationship with a person whom I could not also be sexually intimate in the usual ways. If I could not pleasure my partner sexually, then I would not personally be satisfied.
jimbob200521
Diamond Member
homercles337
Diamond Member
Shens.
dullard
Elite Member
I have nothing against dating someone in a wheelchair if they have other benefits that outweigh that negative (and since I love ballroom dancing, that negative would impact my life severely). However, of all of my friends in a wheelchair that I've had, none of them had any special benefit that outweighed that negative. They tended to be a bit bitter. Everyone can be bitter at times, but they have been more bitter than most. Thus, so far, I could do better and I have done better.
I do admit that I have a limited experience here though and I reserve the right to change my views if the data I see changes.
I do admit that I have a limited experience here though and I reserve the right to change my views if the data I see changes.
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If we accept that sexual expression is a natural and important part of human life, then perceptions that deny sexuality for disabled people deny a basic right of expression.. The perception of people with disabilities as non-sexual can present a barrier to safe sex education, both for workers who may be influenced by these views, and for disabled people themselves in terms of gaining access to information and acceptance as sexual beings. As one physically disabled woman wrote:
"How could you do it?" was a question which had many nuances and was put to me by many people during and after my pregnancy. The GP wondered how I could have had intercourse in my "predicament" . . . you see, not only was it immoral to be an unmarried mother, it was doubly immoral to be an unmarried mother AND a severely disabled person . . .
For paraplegic and quadriplegic people, a loss of sexual function does not mean a corresponding loss of sexuality. Sexual function may be impaired but can, like other functions, be increased, although fertility is usually lost for men. After spinal cord injury the spinal centre for sexual function is generally intact; it is the communication from the brain to the spinal centre that is usually disrupted. Unless some sensation in the area of the sexual organs remains, the usual sensation of orgasm is lost, but phantom orgasm elsewhere in the body may be experienced. However, the physical and emotional aspects of sexuality, despite the physical loss of function, continue to be just as important for disabled people as for non-disabled people.
If we accept that sexual expression is a natural and important part of human life, then perceptions that deny sexuality for disabled people deny a basic right of expression.. The perception of people with disabilities as non-sexual can present a barrier to safe sex education, both for workers who may be influenced by these views, and for disabled people themselves in terms of gaining access to information and acceptance as sexual beings. As one physically disabled woman wrote:
"How could you do it?" was a question which had many nuances and was put to me by many people during and after my pregnancy. The GP wondered how I could have had intercourse in my "predicament" . . . you see, not only was it immoral to be an unmarried mother, it was doubly immoral to be an unmarried mother AND a severely disabled person . . .
For paraplegic and quadriplegic people, a loss of sexual function does not mean a corresponding loss of sexuality. Sexual function may be impaired but can, like other functions, be increased, although fertility is usually lost for men. After spinal cord injury the spinal centre for sexual function is generally intact; it is the communication from the brain to the spinal centre that is usually disrupted. Unless some sensation in the area of the sexual organs remains, the usual sensation of orgasm is lost, but phantom orgasm elsewhere in the body may be experienced. However, the physical and emotional aspects of sexuality, despite the physical loss of function, continue to be just as important for disabled people as for non-disabled people.
mordantmonkey
Diamond Member
This reminded me of that part in Murderball where the guy was talking about his doggystyle technique that employed use of a towel as a sort of handle/sling. BTW the guy was a quadrapelegic.
bunnyfubbles
Lifer
I voted maybe, although it is more like a most-likely
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