The Disabled Man Taught Lesbian Sex
Mik Scarlets Talk was particularly enlightening because people with disabilities don't ever have professional support or guidance or advice on sex from health care workers. I have been celibate for many years because of all the different disabilities and how they affect me. But if I've tried to discuss this with a doctor they flinch away, unable and unwilling to talk about it. Close intimacy is an important part of human life, and it's rare I even get a hug from someone. Being disabled is a horrible thing sometimes 😕 But this guy's story is just brilliant the way he tells it, he was finally taught sex by lesbians and it opened up a whole new world for him! 😊😀
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Sex and relationships for disabled people can give rise to unspoken questions and sensitivities - often among the able bodied. But amid the awkwardness there is humour. The following is an edited version of a monologue by Mik Scarlet, who broke his back when he was a teenager.
I'm going to talk about sex, because that's edgy isn't it.
Like most people who were born disabled, as I was, you grow up and you're kind of cool with it. I was born with a bit of a useless leg, so I wore what was then called a caliper but is now called a leg brace, which meant that I was really rubbish at PE, awful at football, and really good at kicking bullies.
Then I hit puberty and puberty is a bit of a pig because we all live in a society where disability and sexy just don't go together. And remember this is the 70s, so they really didn't go together. I thought, what am I going to do? No-one's going to want to go out with me. No-one's going to want a disabled boyfriend. I worried a bit but I'd been brought up to believe that the best thing to do was try and fail. Because it's always better to fail than to not try. So I tried, and.....
Written Report - The Man Taught How to Have Sex by Lesbians
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Mik Scarlet - How I learnt to have sex as a disabled man
Mik Scarlet, who was paralysed in his lower body as a teenager, had to deal with erectile dysfunction and thought any form of intimacy was impossible - until he was invited to a party.
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Sex and relationships for disabled people can give rise to unspoken questions and sensitivities - often among the able bodied. But amid the awkwardness there is humour. The following is an edited version of a monologue by Mik Scarlet, who broke his back when he was a teenager.
I'm going to talk about sex, because that's edgy isn't it.
Like most people who were born disabled, as I was, you grow up and you're kind of cool with it. I was born with a bit of a useless leg, so I wore what was then called a caliper but is now called a leg brace, which meant that I was really rubbish at PE, awful at football, and really good at kicking bullies.
Then I hit puberty and puberty is a bit of a pig because we all live in a society where disability and sexy just don't go together. And remember this is the 70s, so they really didn't go together. I thought, what am I going to do? No-one's going to want to go out with me. No-one's going to want a disabled boyfriend. I worried a bit but I'd been brought up to believe that the best thing to do was try and fail. Because it's always better to fail than to not try. So I tried, and.....
Written Report - The Man Taught How to Have Sex by Lesbians
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Mik Scarlet - How I learnt to have sex as a disabled man
Mik Scarlet, who was paralysed in his lower body as a teenager, had to deal with erectile dysfunction and thought any form of intimacy was impossible - until he was invited to a party.