Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Standing in My Shoes
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Wide-ranging, authoritative and grounded in the expertise of people with intellectual disabilities, this book offers an authentic account of the challenges those with intellectual disabilities face in their relationships and sex lives across the globe and explores what society needs to do to respect their rights. Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Standing in my Shoes......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 11 A note on terminology in this book......Page 12 Part I. The international perspective......Page 15 Chapter 1. Introduction to the book: Standing in My Shoes......Page 16 Chapter 2. Stories from around the globe......Page 28 Chapter 3. Intimacy and oppression: A Historical Perspective......Page 48 Chapter 4. Ebba and Jonni: This is Our Story......Page 67 Chapter 5. ‘I would have broken the law several times…’: Reflecting on the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act (1993) in the Republic of Ireland......Page 79 Chapter 6. ‘Once in six weeks? That’s not a relationship!’: Stories About Love, Relationships and Sex from Self-Advocates Living in Flanders......Page 89 Chapter 7. The paradox of intimacy in Japan: Shifting Objects of Affection......Page 101 Chapter 8. The Maltese Odyssey: Issues of Sexuality and Parenting for People with Intellectual Disability......Page 110 Chapter 9. ‘Molly is just like me’: Peer Education and Life Stories in Sexuality Programmes in Australia......Page 121 Chapter 10. Emerging themes from Part 1......Page 135 Part II. A UK experience......Page 145 Chapter 11. Law, policy and diversity: Exploring the Gap between Rhetoric and Real Life......Page 146 Chapter 12. Promoting sexualities and protecting from abuse......Page 165 Chapter 13. ‘Far more people were able to have sex lives’: Sexual Relationships and Reproductive Control in Learning Disability Institutions......Page 175 Chapter 14. ‘This is my time, my life, the way I am’: Experiences of Being Transgendered in a Rural Setting......Page 187 Chapter 15. Clare’s story: Gay Women Might Need a Rainbow Fairy Group......Page 195 Chapter 16. Good As You 2 (GAY2): A Peer Support Group for Intellectually Disabled LGBT People......Page 212 Chapter 17. ‘I have been blessed to have a very good support worker’: Experiences Related to Ethnicity and Diversity......Page 221 Chapter 18. The final frontier: Young People with Learning Difficulties and Sex Education......Page 229 Chapter 19. ‘Women like soaps and men like football’: The Men’s Room: Intellectually Disabled Men Talking About their Views on Women, Relationships and Sex......Page 240 Chapter 20. Intellectually disabled people who sell or Who are sold for sex in the UK: An Exploration......Page 250 Chapter 21. Working in partnership: The Editors’ Story......Page 264 Chapter 22. Emerging themes from Part 2......Page 281 Chapter 23. Re-visiting the research questions and future recommendations......Page 291 Appendices......Page 303 Appendix 1. Examples of publications from The Open University Social History Of Learning Disability Group......Page 304 Appendix 2. An Accessible Human Rights Act......Page 307 Appendix 3. The law and other rules we work with......Page 311 Appendix 4. The Sexual Respect Tool Kit......Page 313 Subject Index......Page 315 Author Index......Page 320 Blank Page......Page 2
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