Corpo marcado e sexuado : deficiências e sexualidades em debate na escola de pais da APAE

Abstract

This work aims to broaden the discussion about disability and sexuality in the APAE’s Parent School, including the public who participate of the Social Assistance Reference Center - CRAS. The main objective was to discuss sexuality through workshops that point advances in the understanding of parents and relatives about the peculiarity of their children's sexuality. The specifics purposes have been to open a space for parents and relatives of disabled people talk about their perception disability and sexuality and about the difficulties they face when approaching and even recognize that disabled people are also sexual persons. The discussions about the public's sexuality, generated in this intervention project, provided new insight about the sexuality of disabled people. Mothers present enlarged their vision of limited bodies of their children and of the other present mothers’ children, recognizing that behind them there is pulsating desire as in any body, but each of them in a peculiar way.