Sexual Disability and
Marijuana
by C.A.
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-old woman who was paralyzed in a car accident when I was 16 in
1970. 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 paralyzed, 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 marijuana 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 marijuana whenever the opportunity afforded itself. When 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 marijuana heightened my sensations. Or maybe it heightens my awareness of my
sense of touch; Ive 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
marijuana and given five years probation, with the usual drug testing. Because the state
of Missouri in no way recognizes the use of marijuana 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. |