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Sexuality
After a person has a brain injury
By David Strauss ~ 2002
The most common age of brain injury is 15 to 25. Males are injured almost twice as often as females. This is the age when sexual awareness, exploration and experimentation are natural among adolescents and young adults. Understanding sexuality and learning sexual skills can be more difficult for the individual with a brain injury because of physical, cognitive and communication changes.
Misunderstandings about sexuality among persons with disabilities make this process even more complex.
Myth...Sexual expression is deviant.
Fact... Sexual expression is a natural and critical element of human life.
Myth...People with cognitive and intellectual disabilities have no rights to sexual expression.
Fact... Denying sexuality is to deny a basic human right.
Myth...People with disabilities have no interest in sex.
Fact... People with disabilities are sexual.
Myth...Sex education can be dangerous, especially if you are disabled.
Fact... Learning about sex and sexuality improves one’s self-image and avoids a lot of embarrassment during adolescence and young adulthood.
Myth...Some medications can cure most causes of sexual dysfunction.
Fact... Medications for treating depression, cognition and anxiety often cause sexual dysfunction. Ask a doctor about sexual side effects of prescribed medications.
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