After a spinal cord injury (SCI), sexuality can still be satisfying, although the injury often causes sexual dysfunction. Physical limitations from SCI can affect sexual function, sexuality, and quality of life. Damage to the spinal cord impairs its ability to transmit messages between the brain and parts of the body below the level of the lesion, resulting in lost or reduced sensation and muscle motion, and affecting orgasm, erection, ejaculation, and vaginal lubrication. SCI can also impact sexuality when it leads to depression and an altered self-image. Even so, many people with SCI have satisfying sex lives, often including sexual arousal and orgasm. They can focus on different areas of the body and types of sexual acts, and often find newly sensitive erotic areas of the skin in erogenous zones or near borders between areas of preserved and lost sensation. Drugs, devices, and surgery can help men achieve erection and ejaculation. Although male fertility is reduced, many men with SCI can still father children. Women's fertility is not usually affected, although precautions must be taken for safe pregnancy and delivery.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_after_spinal_cord_injury

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1781:

Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius after a brief skirmish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius

1813:

Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gained a largely symbolic victory against a royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Lorenzo

1953:

Hundreds of native creoles known as forros were massacred in São Tomé by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batep%C3%A1_massacre

1971:

New York City Police officer Frank Serpico, who had reported police corruption to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico

2010:

A cast of L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_marche_I

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

cunette: (military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cunette

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Anyone whose attention and love are really directed towards the reality outside the world recognizes at the same time that he is bound, both in public and private life, by the single and permanent obligation to remedy, according to his responsibilities and to the extent of his power, all the privations of soul and body which are liable to destroy or damage the earthly life of any human being whatsoever.   --Simone Weil https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil