DIS-2200 Kritik 3

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February 9, 2023 DIS-2200-781 Word Count: 584 Enhancing the Access of Sexual Services When a person with a disability hires a caregiver to help them with daily activates like cooking, cleaning, and getting dressed, the general population doesn’t see wrong in that. Most people encourage someone with a disability to hire help; hiring help in most cases would allow this individual to live in their own home, rather than living in an assisted living environment, which may not feel like home. In my opinion, there is no difference between a hired caregiver and a hired sex coach or sex worker. Both the caregiver of daily tasks and the sex worker’s intentions are to help a disabled person complete something they cannot complete on their own. In my mind it is like comparing apples to apples, when looking at a caregiver helping a disabled person out of bed and a sex coach helping to prep their client to masturbate, possibly assisting in the process of masturbation, and cleaning up after (Williams) the two acts are both to help in the completion of a task. Increasing the access disabled people have to sexual education and experiences starts with one root source. This source being the stigma behind disabled people having sex. The conversation of how a disabled person has sex is rarely talked about in the middle and high school education program. In my third year of post-secondary education was the first time I engaged publicly in a conversation about sex and disabled people. I believe that implementing a destigmatizing conversation into the highschool health curriculum would benefit society. Children would learn from a pre-teen age that there is no difference between their sexual desires and someone who has a disability. I believe that increasing positive conversation regarding barriers an individual with a disability encounters while trying to explore their sexuality, would be a progressive action towards enhancing sexual access to those with disabilities. For example, if Trish St. John from VICE’s video “ Medically Assisted Sex ” were to have been exposed to the lack of sexual services disabled people had earlier on in her life, she may have been inclined to start a business similar to Sensual Solutions long before she did in 2011 (Medically Assisted Sex , 4:35). Another course of action is implementing positive regulations by the government. Although Canada is to be said it is a “free” country, has laws in place that portrays sellers of sex as victims and buyers of sex the predator. A similar government decision is brough to light about Sweden in the article “ Paying for Sexual Service ”. This legal policy displays a neo abolitionists approach to eliminate sex workers in the country. Medically assisted sex is a grey area, which deters sex workers who wish to help better sexually accommodate people with disabilities because they may be weary of participating with the fear of being criminalized for it. Due to the line between criminal and noncriminal acts drawn by the government not being dark enough.

The same year Sweden criminalized sex workers (1999), Denmark’s parliament decriminalized the act of sex work by arguing “one did not help prostitutes by punishing them” (Kulick and Rydstrom, 178). Sören Olsson, a famous Swedish writer but also a father with a son who has down syndrome found himself in the predicament between the distaste of buying sex for his son and wanting nothing more than to give his son a sexual experience. Proper regulation and legalization in Denmark gave Olsson and his son Ludvid the option to have the experience, if Ludvid wished (Kulick and Rydstrom).

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