16 year old son suffering from cerebral palsy
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My close relative, a single mother, has a 16 year old son suffering from cerebral palsy. She wants to know if it is alright for her to masturbate her son as he is not able to do it himself. How okay is it for relatives to help physically handicapped person to relieve sexual tension by masturbation? If not, what is the way out?
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It is absolutely not advisable for relatives or anyone to masturbate a physically challenged person suffering from cerebral palsy. Only he can know his sexual needs, their nature and their intensity, if at all. His ability to understand his sexual needs and the necessity to relive his sexual needs cannot be guessed or assessed by anyone from the outside. He may or may not be experiencing any such need physiologically. If an erection is noticed in such an individual, it need not always be a sign of sexual arousal. An erection can happen in men periodically – irrespective of their sexual urges. It may confuse and even torment the physically challenged person by attempting to masturbate him. This situation could also be taken advantage of by a “sick” relative who may have a fetish similar to paedophilia and may sexually abuse the child under the garb of relieving the child’s sexual tension. The sexual tension built in a person does get relieved naturally through periodic nocturnal emissions.