The Sexuality of Spinal Injured Women - Abstract
After a reminder of the intimate, relational and social situation of today’s women, the question of the sexual life of women with spinal cord injuries after severe vertebrospinal trauma is addressed. As soon as the traumatic attack occurs, an acute section syndrome manifests itself, with sublesional sensorimotor, sphincter and neuro-vegetative damage.Amenorrhea is systematic. It is experienced as a psychophysiological regression or as a sanction. It can last several months during which sexuality does not manifest itself, whatever its form. Sexuality reappears shortly after the return of pelvi-perineal reflexes, which provide access to learning intermittent urinary catheterization. On the sexual level, the problem posed is twofold, physical and psychological, and some possible solutions are considered. On the one hand, to help and preserve a sexuality adapted to the disability and on the other hand to take into account the subjective, identity and relational values which are also one’s own.