Hi Ron,
Mitch Tepper's dissertation research dealt with sexual pleasure for spinal
cord injured persons and he discusses the issue you bring up. I have pasted
his profile from SexualHealth.com below. I'm sure he would respond to an
email from you. Best wishes.
Russell
Russell Shuttleworth, Ph.D.
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
University of California, Berkeley
Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D.,
Speciality: Sexuality and Disability, Sexual Pleasure, Orgasm
View this expert's archive
Website: sexualhealth.com
Biography: Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D. M.P.H. is Founder and President of The
Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com. Dr. Tepper is a nationally
recognized sexuality educator, researcher, author, and advocate dedicated to
ending the silence around issues of sexuality and disability. His years of
research at Yale University, Rutgers University, and the University of
Pennsylvania have served as the basis for numerous professional, academic,
and public presentations, articles, and chapters. Publications include:
Lived Experiences that Impede or Facilitate Pleasure and Orgasm in People
with Spinal Cord Injury; Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education and Training for
Health Professional, and; Love Bites, a monthly column in New Mobility
magazine. Dr. Tepper has served on the Board of Directors of the American
Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS),
and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. Dr.
Tepper is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexuality and
Disability. He is an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University and a
regular guest lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Tepper
has a Master's degree in Public Health from Yale University and a Ph.D. in
Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition
to academic credentials, Dr. Tepper, who grew up with Crohn's Disease and
acquired a spinal cord injury at age 20, brings a lifetime of first-hand
experience with chronic illness and disability to his work.
Click here for more information on Dr. Tepper's studies on SCI.
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>Please excuse cross-posting.
>
>In my "day job" I'm a philosopher of biology, and I've been asked to review
>a recent book on the evolution of the human female orgasm. (Harvard U.
>Press, Elizabeth Lloyd, _The case of the female orgasm_ if you're
>interested: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/LLOCAS.html.)
>
>Although the book does not appear to be directly related to disability, I
>have an idea about a connection. Because I'm not really familiar with the
>work on sexuality and disability, I'll ask my favorite lists. Maybe I'm
>wrong, but here's my idea.
>
>My only source on this is Hockenberry's _Moving Violations_. But it seemed
>to me that men who become non-orgasmic through injury eventually learn that
>sex is very enjoyable even without "normal" orgasms. If anyone can point me
>to sources that discuss this issue, I'd be pleased to hear of them. If I'm
>wrong, tell me.
>
>You may wonder why I'm not asking about women in similar circumstances. The
>reason is that almost all of the evolutionary theories about female orgasm
>were constructed by men (no surprise), and Lloyd shows that male
>misunderstandings of female orgasm were involved in some pretty silly
>mistakes. I believe that one of these mistakes might be that an individual
>would have no desire for sex if they were unable to experience orgasm.
>There
>is some evidence that this is false for women (at least some women) but the
>evidence that it is false for men has much less documentation. If such
>documentation exists in the disability-and-sexuality literature, this might
>be a new contribution to the scientific discussion of sexuality that comes
>directly from Disability Studies.
>
>Just a thought. Thanks for any citations.
>
>Ron
>
>Ron Amundson
>University of Hawaii at Hilo
>Hilo, HI 96720
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