Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships for the Disabled (And the People Who Care About Them) [Paperback]

Ken Kroll (Author), Erica Levy Klein (Author)

Book Description

Series: And the People Who Care About Them | Publication Date: May 1995

The first comprehensive, practical guide to relationships for the physically challenged. Offers complete information on the social, romantic, and sexual requirements posed by a wide range of disabilities. The book includes lists of family-planning and independent-living organizations; dating, friendship, and pen-pal services; and mail-order catalogs, magazines, and videos. Illustrations.

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The authors offer a guide to intimacy and physical relations for disabled people and their partners.
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The first comprehensive, practical guide to relationships for the physically challenged. Offers complete information on the social, romantic, and sexual requirements posed by a wide range of disabilities. The book includes lists of family-planning and independent-living organizations; dating, friendship, and pen-pal services; and mail-order catalogs, magazines, and videos. Illustrations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: Woodbine House (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933149786
• ISBN-13: 978-0933149786
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,698,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL book!!!!!! - with one exception, December 31, 2001

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Sami (St. Cloud, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships for the Disabled (and the People Who Care About Them) (Hardcover)

My ONLY problem with this book is that it does not discuss GLBT issues. Nonetheless, this is the BEST book on sex/sexuality I have ever read, and the ONLY one I have read for people with disabilities. The drawings are AMAZING - VERY erotic but done tastefully. I could get turned on on just the pictures alone. Add the stories, and, in the words of my husband (we read this book together), "VA VA VOOM!"

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and Comforting, July 14, 2003

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Kenneth B. Caudle (Central Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships for the Disabled (And the People Who Care About Them) (Paperback)

This is an excellent book. I have Cerebral Palsy. As I read through the various situations described by the authors along with the interviews from other disabled people, these are exactly the type of situation I have dealt with throughout my life. Most important are issues dealing with human sexuality. For a "normal" person who has concerns about these issues, his or her concerns are treated as not only normal, but healthy. However, when the disabled person has the same concerns, he or she is not only treated as abnormal and even perverted, but so often he or she is ignored. Moreover, there is the acknowledgment that these situations, or attitudes, are prevalent in not only the general public, but people of the medical profession who should be trusted to know better. It is so empowering for these issues to be acknowledged in such a mature manner as this book acknowledges them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful In a New Relationship, March 2, 2003

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"crutchesb3" (Killeen, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships for the Disabled (And the People Who Care About Them) (Paperback)

I have to say there are not many books out there that tells it like it is. This book is by far the best of them all. I hope Ken Kroll and his wife Erica Levy Klien write another one soon as possible with other stories. There were other issues I wanted them to hit on. Great Read.