Emotional and intimate relationships for people with disabilities: representations and alternatives

Both people with disabilities and normal people have emotional problems associated with emotional life with the same severity and impact, but people with disabilities have a special situation. Although their circumstances and quality of life in general have improved, achieving a healthy emotional life and establishing safe intimate relationships remain questionable given their precarious situation. The possibility of exploiting this group emotionally and sexually exists, and may deepen their sense of inferiority, and increase the suffering of psychological charges and their sense of marginalization. Accordingly, this intervention aims to discuss the specificity of healthy intimate relationships and sex education that are appropriate to the lives of persons with disabilities, and then propose possible solutions to improve the services provided to them in general, and to improve services related to emotional life and intimate relationships in particular. Thus; the development of educational programs for the sexual culture that are appropriate for them, is considered an entry point to prevent their emotional and sexual exploitation, with the need to have a specialized staff next to them, as important and specialized as the educational facilities, to help them achieve a balanced emotional life, and establish healthy intimate relationships.