When people break their backs and become paralysed?
Bethany…it probably would be the first thing on a blokes mind. Unfortunately, to answer the question, if sensation is lost it’s usually coupled with a loss of any ability to perform sexually due to a lack of nerve signals. There are no erections, and no orgasms. This, if nothing else, is a very good reason to not break your back. EDIT – Cybsus, I believe the question was whether people masturbate after SCI – not whether they are ‘technically’ capable of sexual intercourse. It is, in fact, the tiny minority of cases that are able to perform sexually post injury without the use of aids – such as surgery, powerful vibrators, electronic probes, etc. I don’t know where you got the idea that most women retain sensation post SCI – the figures are pretty even for men and women (Read the Orschoff papers). Regardless, masturbation is something quite different from assisted sexual intercourse – and if, every time you want to “get off”, you need to go to that level of bother, not to mention expe
