{"id":40881,"date":"2017-11-18T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40881"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:19:22","slug":"legalize-medically-assisted-sex-keep-government-out-of-bedrooms-and-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/legalize-medically-assisted-sex-keep-government-out-of-bedrooms-and-wheelchairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalize Medically-Assisted Sex: Keep Government Out of Bedrooms and Wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Zuh8FtkkYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 17 Nov 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We should all be adults about sex and not deprive the disabled of services from which they&#8217;d benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nine out of 10 doctors agree sex is good for you, or at least better for you than smoking. But what happens if you have a disability that makes it difficult to engage in sex, or find a sexual partner in the first place? Enter sex surrogates, professionals who help the disabled work through their sexual problems (in large part by having sex with them). Although there&#8217;s a case to be made for the medical, if not psychological, benefits sex surrogates provide, they&#8217;re operating in a legal gray area.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest Mostly Weekly, host Andrew Heaton makes the case that we should all be adults about sex and not deprive the disabled of services from which they&#8217;d benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; is hosted by Andrew Heaton with headwriter Sarah Rose Siskind.<br \/>\nScript by Sarah Rose Siskind with writing assistance from Andrew Heaton and Brian Sack.<br \/>\nEdited by Austin Bragg and Siskind.<br \/>\nProduced by Meredith and Austin Bragg.<br \/>\nTheme Song: Frozen by Surfer Blood. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 17 Nov 2017 We should all be adults about sex and not deprive the disabled of services from which they&#8217;d benefit. &#8212;&#8212; Nine out of 10 doctors agree sex is good for you, or at least better for you than smoking. But what happens if you have a disability that makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,9,10,13],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-40881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aDn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40882,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881\/revisions\/40882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}