Sex, Spinal Cord Injuries, and Queerness
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The experiences of straight, cis-gendered “women” constitute nearly all of the research on sex and sexuality in people with spinal cord injuries (SCI). This narrative review aims to explore the sexual experiences of Queer people with SCI, particularly Queer people with vaginas (PWV), an underrepresented group in existing literature. This review found that 1) PWV who have partially or completely severed SCI can experience sexual arousal through both bottom-up and top-down neural processing pathways; 2) the definition of pleasure is similar among Queer and non-Queer PWV however Queer self-identifying women experience more satisfaction with self-stimulation than non Queer PWV; 3) self-identified lesbians experience greater sexual satisfaction in part due to correlation of the givers sexual desire and pleasuring their sexual partner; 4) higher rates of sexual satisfaction for Queer PWV are due to the expectation of partnered orgasm, depth of cognitive and behavioral engagement in sexual activity, less incongruities in reading body language cues, and a congruent conception in the factual influences on sexual arousal, compared to heterosexual PWV; and 5) the results of internalized homophobia ranged from not at all engaging in sexual activity to only engaging in sexual activity under the influence, which commonly led to a mental disconnect between the brain and the body and thus, struggles with communicating needs with partners as well as reaching orgasm. Lastly, this narrative review serves as a reminder that ableist, patriarchal, and heteronormative epistemologies must evolve to better capture the experiences of diverse populations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".