Sex for the Retarded Textbook Page

Sex for the Retarded Sol Gordon: “Many people seem to operate on the false assumption that the less a person knows about sex, the less likely he will be sexually irresponsible. And yet, the youth experience the same physical and emotional changes that “normal” children do, as well as the emotional conflicts of adolescence. Thus, exceptional children must cope with all the emotional conflicts of normal teenage counterparts in addition to those produced by their handicaps. 1. People with special needs, as all people, should have free access to information on sexuality and birth control. 2. Masturbation is a normal expression of sex no matter how frequently it is done and at what age. It becomes compulsive, undue, self-destructive behavior largely as a result of guilt, suppression and punishment. 3. All direct sexual behavior involving the genitals should be in privacy. (Recognizing that institutions and hospitals for the retarded, mentally ill and delinquent are not built or designed to ensure privacy, the definition of what constitutes privacy in an institution must be very liberal.) Bathrooms, one bed, the bushes, basements are private domains. 4. Anytime a physically mature girl and a boy have sexual relations, their risk pregnancy. 5. Unless they are clear about wanting to have a baby and the responsibility that goes with child-rearing, both the male and female should use birth control. (Staff should not consider pills or any other form of birth control to be abnormal.) Birth control services and genetic counselling should have babies in order to be disabled adults. 6. Until you are, say 18, society feels you should not have intercourse. After this, you decide for yourself—providing you use birth control. 7. Adults should not be permitted to use children sexually. 8. In the final analysis, sexual behavior between consenting adults (regardless of mental age) and whether it is homo or hetero, should be no one else’s business—providing there is little risk of bringing an unwanted child into this world. What is needed in people who work with “exceptional” youth is for them to begin to show some honesty, courage, and integrity in facing squarely the issues of human sexuality. Sexual Rights For The People Who Happen to be Handicapped, Sol Gordon, 6th in a Series: “Notes from the Center,” January, 1974, $ .50. CENTER ON HUMAN POLICY 216 Ostrom Avenue Syracuse University Division of Special Education

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