'I don't know what a proper woman means': what women with intellectual disabilities think about sex, sexuality and themselves.
Accessible summary For a long time, people tried to stop women with intellectual disabilities from knowing about sex and from having sex., We talked to some women with intellectual disabilities to find out what they thought about sex., Many of the women told us that they thought sex is bad and that...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 5 - 13 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2013
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