Is Love Blind? Sexual Behavior and Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents with Blindness

Kef, S.; Bos, Henny

doi:10.1007/s11195-006-9007-7

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“…Those living in institutions did not mention any sexual experience. Male and female adolescents confirmed the family's overprotection (12) . When comparing love and sex, some interviewed adolescents perceive that love can exist without sex and that sex can exist without love.…”

Section: Affective-sexual Lifementioning

confidence: 76%

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A vivência da sexualidade por adolescentes portadoras de deficiência visual

Bezerra

Pagliuca

2010

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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Portuguese / English: www.scielo.br/reeusp RESUMO Devido às transformações ocorridas na adolescência, as indefinições que a acompanham, somadas à deficiência visual, justifica-se um estudo sobre a vivência da sexualidade das adolescentes portadoras de deficiência visual inseridas na sociedade e na comunidade escolar. Foram entrevistadas cinco adolescentes em um Centro de Apoio Pedagógico, com questões que buscaram o conhecimento e a compreensão sobre as causa da sua deficiência visual, composição e orientações familiares, experiência afetivosexual e o nível de conhecimento acerca de assuntos relacionados à sexualidade, dentre eles métodos contraceptivos e doenças sexualmente transmissíveis. Os resultados mostram que estas adolescentes apresentam as mesmas características de desenvolvimento da sexualidade da sua faixa etária, embora possuam características individuais. Percebeu-se o desconhecimento sobre mé-todos contraceptivos e doenças sexualmente transmissíveis com informações superficiais. Torna-se imprescindível que o conhecimento se faça de forma acessível para esta população. DESCRITORES RESUMENEn razón de las transformaciones sufridas durante la adolescencia, las indefiniciones que a acompañan, sumándose la deficiencia visual, se justifica un estudio sobre la experiencia de la sexualidad de las adolescentes afectadas por deficiencia visual insertas en la sociedad y en la comunidad escolar. Fueron entrevistadas cinco adolescentes en un Centro de Apoyo Pedagógico con preguntas que buscaron el conocimiento y comprensión de la causa de su deficiencia visual, composición y orientaciones familiares, experiencia afectivo-sexual, nivel de conocimientos acerca de asuntos relacionados con la sexualidad, sin excluir métodos anticonceptivos y enfermedades de transmisión sexual. Los resultados muestran que estas adolescentes presentan las mismas características de desarrollo de la sexualidad de su faja etaria, sin embargo poseen características particulares. Se percibió el desconocimiento respecto de métodos anticonceptivos y enfermedades de transmisión sexual, temas acerca de los cuales estaban superficialmente informadas. Es imprescindible que el conocimiento se transmita de modo accesible para esta población. DESCRIPTORES Sexualidad.Adolescente. Personas con daño visual. Enfermería.

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Section: Affective-sexual Lifementioning

confidence: 76%

“…Limitations of the experience exchange are less autonomy and worse school performance. This raises discussion on the formal education system and affects sexual education (12) .…”

Section: Affective-sexual Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

A vivência da sexualidade por adolescentes portadoras de deficiência visual

Bezerra

Pagliuca

2010

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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“…For example, blind individuals are characterized by having personalities that include qualities such as being introverted, passive, withdrawn and lacking social skills [21,22]. These are emotional characteristics that develop over time and are directly caused by a blind person's experience with the restrictions they face in the outside world.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An assessment of athletic identity in blind and able-bodied tandem cyclists

Tasiemski¹,

Wilski²,

Mędak³

2018

Hum Mov.

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Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the athletic identity (AI) of blind and able-bodied tandem cyclists and explore its relationship to selected variables. An additional objective of this study was to analyze the reliability of the seven-item Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) for tandem cyclists. Methods. The participants (N = 50) completed measures of AI, variables characterizing their loss of vision (degree and time of loss) and variables characterizing their sports level (the number of hours of training per week and sports experience). Results. The AI level of able-bodied tandem captains is significantly higher than the level in visually impaired athletes. blind tandem cyclists were found to be a fairly homogeneous group according to AI. There were no differences in AI and the degree and time of vision loss, the number of hours of training per week and when a cycling license was received. Psychometric analysis showed that AIMS is a reliable and consistent research tool in the evaluation of AI of tandem cyclists. Conclusions. The findings suggest that there is a need to increase the involvement of blind cyclists in the sport as well as their responsibility for sports results.

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“…Disabled people themselves have recounted numerous tales of exclusion and oppression [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. A lack of access to public transport, inadequate economic resources, physical inaccessibility, and perhaps most importantly, attitudinal barriers, especially among family, friends, caregivers and healthcare providers, colleagues, close acquaintances, and prospective mates have kept many disabled people from experiencing and expressing their own sexuality.…”

Section: The Social Model Of Disabled Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite changing views, some sexualities remain marginalized, both in the research literature and in life. Both straight women and lesbians, especially those with congenital-as opposed to acquireddisabilities, gay men, bisexuals, and racial/ethnic minorities continue to experience the most hostility and/or neglect [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. This is because most disability research remains wedded to dominant heteronormative and ableist notions of gender and sexuality.…”

Section: The Social Model Of Disabled Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Binary: Rethinking the Social Model of Disabled Sexuality

Rembis

2009

Sex Disabil

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While the social model of disabled sexuality offers a fundamental and vitally important critique of ableist assumptions concerning disabled people's sexuality, it remains limited. This article offers a brief history and critical overview of the most recent scholarship emerging out of the social model of disabled sexuality; argues that the new scholarship, which is meant largely to challenge dominant ableist assumptions concerning disabled people's sexuality, actually serves to reinforce the heterosexual matrix; and provides both theoretical and practical means of transforming the future landscape of (dis/ abled) human sexualities.Keywords Ability Á Disability Á Sexuality Á Social model Binary oppositions between straight and gay, disabled and non-disabled are inaccurate and oppressive ideologies, which obscure the continuities of disability and sexuality. Tom Shakespeare [1] I think that disability is a breed on its own, neither masculine or feminine. Jazz [2] Sex and disability, disability and sex; the two words may seem incompatible. Practitioners, care-givers, family, friends, society-rooted in what Butler [3] has called the heterosexual matrix and what disability rights activists and scholars have called the medical model of disability-consider disabled people to be not only broken or damaged, but also incompetent, impotent, undesirable, or asexual. Their inability to perform gender and sexuality in a way that meets dominant societal expectations is seen as an intrinsic limitation, an 'unfortunate' but unavoidable consequence of inhabiting a disabled body. Many disabled people who have internalized dominant, ableist, heteronormative notions of M. A. Rembis

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Is Love Blind? Sexual Behavior and Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents with Blindness

Cited by 42 publications

References 21 publications

A vivência da sexualidade por adolescentes portadoras de deficiência visual

A vivência da sexualidade por adolescentes portadoras de deficiência visual

An assessment of athletic identity in blind and able-bodied tandem cyclists

Beyond the Binary: Rethinking the Social Model of Disabled Sexuality

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