People with disabilities should have access to sex workers and sex services according to the National Agency for Insurance of People with Disabilities.
The difference between a sex therapist and a sex worker is in providing physical contact. While the sex therapist is in charge of verbal therapy, the sex worker has a significant role to play in providing sexual pleasure.
Like everyone else, people with disabilities have sexual needs. Sexual expression is an essential part of human existence, and disability does not diminish sexual desire or their need for intimacy.
Decades of research have shown great benefits from sex, which include improving physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being.
People with disabilities (whether physical or mental disabilities) may face challenges in achieving sexual satisfaction. Occupational sex therapy leads to sex education, introduction to sex and counseling for couples and people with disabilities.
Sex therapists have professional qualifications in health care, psychology or counseling psychology, with specialised training in sex therapy. The treatment of people with disabilities generally focuses on how to enjoy or continue sexual and intimate activities after an injury or disability and how to adjust their sexual activities according to the client’s disability.
But counseling therapy can not allow these people to fulfil their sexual needs and desires. Therefore, sex workers should be present who can help by providing sexual service to a person with a disability or physically assisting couples with a disability to have sex.
For those who do not have potential partners or the physical and / or intellectual capacity for sexual expression, access to the services of sex workers to meet their sexual needs should be a perfectly legitimate option.
Sexual expression and intimacy are basic human needs and should be equally recognised by people with and without disabilities as an important aspect in improving their quality of life, and sex workers are one of the key actors that should be involved in this process.
(Текстот е оригинално објавен во месечниот магазин S-Work No.103)