Conversations about sex after illness, disease or the onset of disability tend to stall on the same question: How far does the sex you’re having now fall short of the sex you used to have?
That comparison can make it difficult to imagine what satisfying sex might look like when pain, fatigue, reduced mobility, changes in sensation or difficulty holding certain positions make familiar sex harder to sustain. Some people keep trying to reproduce the sex they used to have. Others withdraw from sex altogether.
