All humans suffer sexual frustration at times, particularly the young, fever-fretted by high hormones and low self-esteem. What must it feel like when the path to fulfilment is blocked, perhaps permanently, by one’s own severe physical or mental deficiency?
This is the problem which the TLC trust seeks to address by connecting disabled people to sex workers (i.e. prostitutes). For all that, I find myself out of sympathy with the project. Why?
Firstly, because Joe Public pays it for; so that those who would consider it immoral to patronise tarts themselves are compelled to pay for others to do so. Mainly, though, it is because it offers no ultimate satisfaction. I suspect that most of its clients want love and companionship, but are being fobbed off with mere sex. On their website, the Trust say:
Two stigmatized groups provide each other with triumph: sexually-deprived disabled people get laid, and sex workers gain a renewed pride in their work.
No mention of cash changing hands.
Personally, I don’t believe that prostitution brings anything but a sense of degradation to both the parties concerned. And here is a question to ponder; if the social workers that arrange these grim trysts are so concerned about their clients’ sexual rights, why don’t they ‘cut out the middle man’ and have sex with them themselves?
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