Children And Women With Disabilities An Umbrella Term,...

California State University, Long Beach Sexuality in the Disabled Kam Sing Kwok HSC 425 Marty Axelson 14 April, 2016 Introduction: Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations (WHO disabilities). Disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which the person lives. There are some myths about people with disabilities. People think men and women with disabilities don’t need sex, men and women with disabilities are oversexed., sex must be spontaneous and/or have a set time, men and women with disabilities can t have real sex, men and women with disabilities are not sexually attractive, boys and girls with disabilities don t need sexuality education, men and women with disabilities have more important needs than sex, men and women with disabilities, such as retardation, should not have children and should not be allowed to have children.(Disabled World) People enjoy having sex with their intimate partner. Sexuality is not only a physical act of having sex but also includes our thoughts, desires, beliefs, behaviors and experiences related to sex. 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