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<p>The question of capacity to consent can be a barrier to the realization of sexual self-determination for people with so-called intellectual disabilities in practice. This is rooted in sanist and generalizing assumptions that certain individuals, due to their disability, are incapable of making informed decisions for themselves. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in group homes for people with various disabilities, the findings show that some residents express their sexual and romantic interests quite directly. However, the socialization into obedience that many people with so-called intellectual disabilities experience limits their ability to consent insofar as the right to say “no” is not part of their lived experience. Such limitations of consent capacity are therefore not caused by disability itself but by problematic social structures—such as sanism and a&#xa0;culture in which sexual self-determination has yet to be realized—which must be critically addressed and transformed.</p>

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„Ich weiß was ich will“

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    2026年4月17日

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  • Robin Bauer

摘要

The question of capacity to consent can be a barrier to the realization of sexual self-determination for people with so-called intellectual disabilities in practice. This is rooted in sanist and generalizing assumptions that certain individuals, due to their disability, are incapable of making informed decisions for themselves. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in group homes for people with various disabilities, the findings show that some residents express their sexual and romantic interests quite directly. However, the socialization into obedience that many people with so-called intellectual disabilities experience limits their ability to consent insofar as the right to say “no” is not part of their lived experience. Such limitations of consent capacity are therefore not caused by disability itself but by problematic social structures—such as sanism and a culture in which sexual self-determination has yet to be realized—which must be critically addressed and transformed.