An interesting ethical debate. At what point does mental illness represent an inability to provide informed consent? How do you balance attempting to prevent unconsentual sexual activity/abuse, with the natural right of adults to have sexual relationships, as someone with a supervisory position? what are the ethics of making these decisions for other people?
I presume that I may be overthinking this Plain Dealer article.
Should psychiatric hospital patients be permitted to have sex?
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A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
