ABSTRACT

This book has resulted from the author's 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. Though they are difficult and distasteful at times, this analysis is stimulating, provocative and shocking.

part |11 pages

Ethics, learning difficulties and sexuality 1

part |36 pages

Sweet little mystery: the person with learning difficulties as a sexual being

part |47 pages

Exploitation, abuse and assault: the sexual misuse of people with learning difficulties

part |28 pages

Being and becoming: sex education, responsibility and the limits of inclusion