Sexual Disability and Marihuana
C.A.
USA
Both men and women may suffer loss of sexual function as a consequence of
paraplegia. In men it often results in an inability to get or maintain an erection
and an inability to ejaculate. With women it is as described below by
C.A. Her description of the way cannabis is helpful to female paraplegics is
consistent with our understanding of that capacity.
I can think of no way to prove what I am about to say,but I am very serious
and quite desperate. I am a 38-year-o1d woman who was paralysed in a car
accident when I was 16 in 19T0. I have been married to one man for the
past eleven years, and we have enjoyed an active and satisfying sex life. My
problem is not lack of desire or passion or unwillingness to experiment, but
the extremely limited erogenous zone (for lack of a better word) left to me
after I became paraplegic.
About eight years after I was paralysed, before I met my husband, I discovered
that my sexual sensations were greatly heightened in all the necessary
areas, including the clitoris, after I smoked one marihuana cigarette. At that
time I had my first orgasm since the accident. At first I thought this had
to be my imagination. After all, how could a drug increase sensation? So
I experimented using and not using marihuana whenever the opportunity
afforded itself.
hen I met my husband he was willing to go along with it, and try as we
might to disprove it, the irrefutable fact is that the marihuana heightened
my sensations. Or maybe it heightens my awareness of my sense of touch;
I've yet to figure out which. All I know is it heightens my sense of touch to
the point of achieving orgasm when we make love. It truly works. I hope
you can understand what this meant to me after ten years. We were recently
caught with our marihuana and given five years probation, with the usual
drug testing. Because the state of Missouri in no way recognizes the use
of marihuana for medical purposes, I am once again crippled. It is almost
unbearable having this disability forced on you when you know there is
another option.
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