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February 2, 2004 at 06:42 #7827Mish MashMember
found this article in the local sunday papers..
“Health workers in Townsville have offered to educate sex workers about how to have sex with disabled people. Health Department staff have held discussions with a sex workers group about implementing the training programme. Townsville spokewoman also has approached the citys two legal brothels to discuss hiring their wheelchair accessible rooms once a month for sex with disabled clients. She said there had been an expression of interest made to Townsville Office via Sexual Health Services asking if any sex workers were willing to service clients with physical disabilities.
She said the training would include sex with disabled people, dispelling myths about disabled sexuality, communication and working with carers.
She said they often received calls from carers of disabled men asking how they could contact sex workers willing to take disabled clients. Many of these prospective clients need reassuring that they are not a lesser person because of their disability and their sexual desires can be satisfied by someone who accepts their disability and has the knowledge to help them. She said many disabled men missed being close to someone having body contace and being stroked and cuddled, while others were able to have sex. She had heard of a paraplegic man who starved himself several times so he could be admitted to hospital where he would be touched and receive bed baths. Two local sex workers had expressed an interest in taking disabled clients but had no wheelchair access.
A Queensland Health spokesman declined to comment.”What I dont get is.. what is a Health worker going to teach a sex worker about having sex??
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February 3, 2004 at 23:37 #11650Graham – AdminKeymaster
@Mish Mash wrote:
What I dont get is.. what is a Health worker going to teach a sex worker about having sex??
I think the health worker would be more of a meadiator making the introductions. Possibly explaning about catheters, autonomic dysreflexia, blood pressure, body image and other considerations varing with the disability that may need to be explained to the average sex worker. I could teach em’ both a thing or two.
*Books one way ticket to Townsvile. :love:
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February 4, 2004 at 10:25 #11651TamstarMember
I think this would be a great idea. I’m sure for a lot of sex workers and even the general public it is possibly “uncertainty of the unknown.”
I feel the health worker could provide valuable insight and information to the sex workers to make all involved more informed and comfortable & relaxed with the situation.
Having a disablility, whether it be physical or intellectual makes one no less a human being nor does it necessarily take away sexual desires or the need for companionship and closeness.
I’m all for it and if I worked for Qld Health I’d be doing all I could to get an education program up and running for these sex workers, and more importantly more education programs for the public in general.
For most people, until it affects them personally in some way, they never gain a knowledge of how having a disability can effect someone, both physically and mentally and many are totally unprepared to deal with the situation if it occurs. -
February 4, 2004 at 10:53 #11652Mish MashMember
Having been there and done that, sometimes I forget that there are people out there who dont know anything about wheelies, and their situations.
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February 8, 2004 at 04:53 #11653FelicityParticipant
On the contrary I know a wheelie who knows… errm… how to get his groove on.
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