SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Surrogacy, Care Work, Sex Therapy
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Lecture 9: Redefining Dependency
What does it mean to be autonomous
• Having the ability to act independently
• Having the freedom to act independently
• Self governance
• Control
• Independence
Attendant care
• Attendant care: a major criterion that allows people with disabilities to live independently and
autonomously
• Review from last week: carework is not only the provision of care to children or older adults, and
there are unique implications to consider in the provision of care to people with disabilities
What does attendant work consist of
• Attendant care work encompasses many different kinds of tasks
o Medical care
o Housework
o Driving
o Bathing
o Toileting
o Dressing
o Meal preparation and feeding
o Shopping
Care relations
• Balance between caring too much and crossing intimacy
• Care relations between people with disabilities and their careworkers can be very complex
• Balancing the needs of the careworker with the needs of the individual
• A careworker has to actively avoid being too caring and crossing boundaries, while
simultaneously caring enough so that they do not come across as cold
• When care work is provided professionally, care workers are viewed as a tool for independent
living
Intimacy and care work
• Sex surrogacy: paying for sex for disabled people
• There is room for exploitation on both sides
• They are sex therapists not prostitutes
• Gives disabled people more autonomy as they can choose whether they want to have sex or not
• Almost always male customers
Vice article on sex surrogacy: perspective of a person with a disability
• Feels comfortable after engaging in sex surrogacy
Vice article on sex surrogacy; perspective of a care worker providing sex surrogacy
• Not about the money
• Help the people get to a better place
• Because of the emotional factor, they will have a limit to how many session they can have
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Document Summary
What does it mean to be autonomous: having the ability to act independently, having the freedom to act independently, self governance, control. What does attendant work consist of: attendant care work encompasses many different kinds of tasks, medical care, housework, driving, bathing, toileting, dressing, meal preparation and feeding, shopping. Vice article on sex surrogacy: perspective of a person with a disability: feels comfortable after engaging in sex surrogacy. 1: and will include debriefing sessions to help the disabled person make sense of what is going on. Relationships and disability: women with physical disabilities are more likely to be single than men with physical disabilities, they also don"t usually use sex surrogacies. It may be due to norms that suggest women are not sexual in nature which dissuades women from using these services. In heterosexual relationships, able-bodied men are more likely to leave a relationship than able- bodied women when their partner acquires a disability.
