探究男性脊髓損傷者性權實踐之阻礙：使用者觀點

Exploring the Barriers on Actualizing the Sexual Right of the Man with Spinal Cord Injury: User’s Perspective

本研究目的在從男性脊髓損傷者的觀點了解其實現性權的阻礙因素。以立意抽樣選取南部某脊髓損傷機構的成年男性八人進行訪談，再以主題分析法分析。結果發現，他們由於受傷導致身體限制及自卑，減少了異性交往的經驗。家人幾乎都無視其性需求，也很少討論或協助，只能和傷友或親密友人談到性議題。社會大眾對脊髓損傷者的性健康狀況不夠瞭解，而傷者的性需求個別差異也很大，加上視為個人隱私，而不受社會重視。本研究建議男性脊髓損傷者的性權應被視為全人身心健康的一環，且需經個別評估方能提供更人性化之服務。

This study was aimed to explore the barriers influencing the man with spinal cord injury actualizing their sexual rights through the user’s perspective. Purposed sampling method was utilized to recruit 8 male members from a spinal cord injury agency in south Taiwan while the data was analyzed with thematic analysis method. This research found that the injury events have caused their physical limitations and self-inferiority, decreasing experiences to make friends with females. Their family hardly recognized their sexual needs and rarely discussed with or assisted. They could only discuss sex issues with their injury peers or intimates. They thought that people didn’t understand their sexual health. Meanwhile, the individual difference of sexual health among them was huge and deemed as privacy thus was often ignored by the society. This study suggests that the sexual right of the man with spinal cord injury should be considered as an essential component of the personal whole health and individual assessment would be required to provide more humane services.