Sexuality, Learning Difficulties and Doing What's Right [Paperback]

This book addresses sexuality and people with learning disabilities. It explores the rights they have to learn about sexuality issues, to form relationships, and to express themselves sexually. -- Sexuality and Disability, February/ March, 2001Chapter 1 Language, labelling and political correctness; Chapter 2 Sexuality as an ethical issue: a storytelling approachPart 1 Ethics, learning difficulties and sexualitypart2 Sweet little mystery: the person with learning difficulties as a sexual beingpart3 Exploitation, abuse and assault: the sexual misuse of people with learning difficultiespart4 Being and becoming: sex education, responsibility and the limits of inclusion;Gavin Fairbairn, Denis Rowley, Maggie BowenFirst Published in 1996. This book has resulted from our awareness of the difficulties that professionals and parents face in accepting the sexuality of the people with learning disabilities with whom they live and work. It has been written at a time when discussion of such difficulties, and awareness of the prevalence of the sexual abuse of people with learning disabilities, is becoming more and more common.USCopyright ? Gavin Fairbairn, Denis Rowley and Maggie Bowen