What follows is a response to an article by Spiecker and Steutel in which they pose the
question of whether sex between people with" mental retardation"(sic) is morally permissible …

This article is a rebuttal of the claim by Spiecker and Steutel that sex between people with
mild and moderate" mental retardation" is morally permissable only with the substitutive …

Within the learning disability field, there has for some time been an ongoing debate about
how to balance people's rights to sexual autonomy with appropriate protection from abuse …

Accessible summary• This paper talks about what a group of people with intellectual
disabilities in Ireland had to say about their experiences of relationships and sexuality, and …

Is sex between people with" mental retardation" morally permissible and, if at all, under what
conditions? This paper tries to answer this question, but only with regard to sex between …

This article addresses the right to legal capacity to consent to sex of people with intellectual
disabilities. Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities …

In this chapter, we argue that the way the law thinks about disabled children continues to be
led by 'old'ideas about disability and childhood, particularly in the tendency to regard …

Before looking at whether the Children Act has been effective in enabling disabled children
to access their human rights I want to get clear the difference between, and the relationship …

The protection of individuals with learning difficulties or learning disabilities (hereafter
learning disabilities) would appear to be at the heart of legal intervention where sexual and …

Explains why the current legal situation concerning sex and people with learning disabilities
in Great Britain need a radical overhaul in 2004. Need for the law to strike a balance …