Identifier: TFG:2686
Authors: Cotrina Soliz, Maria Renee
Abstract:
Sexuality is still been a taboo subject, especially for disable people. Within this group, invisibility is more pronounced in women, denying their sexuality or given them a reproductive role, ignoring their sexual pleasure. This is why our objective is to explore the perception and expression of sexuality in women with spinal cord injury, make the sexuality of this group visible, know their basic needs, identifying the information, the adaptation process, the sexuality practices and knowing the determining factors in their self-perception of sexuality. To achieve this, the design of this study is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. Data have been collected through semi-structured and individual interviews of three women with spinal cord injury. The analysis of the data has been carried out by the transcription of the interviews, description, analysis and interpretation of the data. The main results of this study have led to: the stories behind people, the limitations of women with spinal cord injury, the invisibility of the problem and the sexuality, the importance of the economical levels and the difficulty of physical, social and emotional reconstruction. We can conclude that sexuality is perceived in a positive, natural and satisfactory way, although the adaptation process is different for each woman. For women with traumatic injuries, mobility is their main drawback when they have sex intercourses, while sensibility is the main problem for the interviewee with a congenital spinal cord injury. One of the factors that affect sexual education is economical resources, the higher the economic level is, the more resources are available and the more accessible is sexual education for women with spinal cord injury. It should be noted that women with spinal cord injuries not only suffer discrimination due to their physical state the same thing occurs with their sexuality.
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