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An instrument called the Marital Adjustment Checklist for the Disabled was individually administered to 38 male and female back-injured persons. The responses of the subjects to the sexual problems section of this instrument were analyzed in the following areas: sexual satisfaction, sexual behavior, sexual feelings, and sexual problems. The results showed that while the participants were permissive in the sexual options they considered, many of the participants also indicated that they experienced problems in their actual sexual relationships.
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Page, R.C., Cheng, HP., Pate, T.C. et al. The perceptions of spinal cord injured persons toward sex. Sex Disabil 8, 112–132 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01102434
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