SEXUAL HEALTH

Sexual health goes beyond the functioning of the genitals. Sexuality can be described as having many different facets, including a person's feeling of maleness and femaleness and their perceived role in their society. It includes how the genitals not only function, but how they may appear and whether or not sensation is normal. It also includes the area of a person's desire or interest to be sexual either alone or with a partner, and how they may feel being a partner to somebody else or obtaining a partner for themselves. It involves how one's bladder and bowel function, and whether this interferes with sexuality. How a person can move, transfer, hold or caress another person is also part of their sexuality .It also encompasses the area of fertility and whether someone can father or bear a child, and includes issues of parenting also. Finally, it includes such things as the right to be a sexual person following neurological injury, the opportunity to have knowledge about sexual changes and to make informed choices about appropriate options.

Sexuality and Disability