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Myths, Sexually Speaking

Myths, Sexually Speaking

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 In this episode, sex educator and therapist Melanie Ramey continues to explore her topic from the last episode about the sexuality of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. In addition to other struggles, they often cope with several pervasive myths regarding their sexuality. Melanie names the myths and dismantles them by sharing the truth about the sexual health and lives of those with disabilities. The myths cause misunderstanding and harm to the community because they rob those with disabilities or chronic pain of their innate rights and their truth as sexual beings.Melanie addresses the myths that people living with disabilities or chronic illness are not sexual, that they are not desirable, that people who live in institutions shouldn’t have sex, that people living with disabilities don’t get sexually assaulted, and that they shouldn’t get married or have children. Each of these myths is false and robs people of their natural existence as human sexual beings. Melanie debunks each myth thoroughly and explains the need for better sex education tailored to those living with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and better education for health workers and the parents of disabled children. This is a key episode that challenges false assumptions many of us may consciously or unconsciously carry. Resources discussed in this episode:“Our Sexuality, Our Health: A Disabled Advocate’s Guide to Relationships, Romance, Sexuality and Sexual Health” by Melissa Crisp-Cooper“Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness” by Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg, and Fran Odette—Contact Melanie Ramey: Instagram: @SexuallySpeakingWithMelanieFacebook: Sexually Speaking with Melanie RameyLinkedin: Sexually Speaking with Melanie Ramey—Canon in D Major performed by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/—TranscriptNarrator: [00:00:01] Using a wheelchair, experiencing chronic pain, or suffering from some other disability doesn't negate one's sexuality. In fact, myths regarding this area can make life even more challenging for those who have too much to handle already. Welcome to the Sexually Speaking podcast with sex educator and therapist Melanie Ramey. Melanie Ramey: [00:00:27] Hello and welcome! This is my second podcast focusing on sexuality of people with disabilities. And as we always emphasize, we are all human sexual beings from the day we're born till the day we die. In their excellent book on sex and Disability, Kaufmann, Silverberg and Odette cover the idea not only of people with disabilities, but those with chronic pain and illness in terms of their sexuality. I highly recommend this book and I will put it as a resource on the Facebook page. If people with these kinds of conditions didn't have enough to cope with, then they must also cope with several myths about their sexuality. Let's be sure we understand we're on the same page here. A myth is a belief about something that is not true. It has no basis in fact. And yet people believe things when they never check out to find out what the facts actually are. So I want to talk about some of the myths that people with disabilities have to deal with in terms of their sexuality. And one of the first things is that people living with disabilities and chronic pain are really not sexual. Now, most of this is based on the fact that many people who are not disabled think that they are basically created differently. They actually think that there is some innate difference between people who are disabled and people who are not. Melanie Ramey: [00:02:18] Because people with disabilities often need help with their daily functioning, they are often even seen as being like children. People in wheelchairs often have to endure being patted on the head like a child. And so thus the idea that if people are childlike, they really aren't sexual beings. A second myth is that people living with disabilities or chronic pain are not desirable. So how can they be sexual? Now the society norm for everyone is for women to be young and beautiful, and for the men to be studs. Anything less is really not acceptable, especially if one might need to take extra time or have assistance to give or receive sexual pleasure. And then they certainly could not be considered desirable. Now, most of the people listening to this podcast are probably not going to fall into the category that the society has, because there are very few people, certainly nobody's eternally young, and nobody's eternally a stud. So, you know, sooner or later you would all fall into the category. So to think that some people, just because they don't look a certain way or act a certain way, are undesirable is absolutely ridiculous. A third concept about sexuality and disability is that, well, they can't really be sexual because sex must be spontaneous...
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