On a warm, sunny day rows of wheelchairs, with 18-, 19-, 20-year-old kids missing arms, missing legs

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/NEWS07/805250566

Wounded vets confront sex issues

Professionals aim to help them restore relationships

BY JANE NORMAN • DES MOINES REGISTER • May 25, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Wounded troops arriving home from Iraq and Afghanistan face a problem so personal and intimate it's difficult to even mention -- how to reestablish a sexual relationship with a spouse or partner.

"It's something that's taboo. We don't talk about such things," said Margaret Giannini, director of the Office on Disability for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. snip

Carmona said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan presents new challenges for sexual and mental health. There are more blast injuries, more amputations, more injuries to genitalia and more brain injuries not readily detected.

On a warm, sunny day in front of Naval National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., "there are rows of wheelchairs, with 18-, 19-, 20-year-old kids missing arms, missing legs," he said.

With advances in medical technology, they may be alive for another 50 years, "but what are we doing for their mental health?" Carmona asked.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. "Sexual health" - key word here is HEALTH - and it's TABOO???

Is this a completely fucked up country or WHAT?

:cry:

[NNN0LHI]

2. But encouraging our young men to go off and kill people who never attacked America is not Taboo

Yes its all fucked up.

Don

[Eurobabe]

3. Just read the story...

Very sad that no one addresses these "important" issues. Hopefully through the efforts of a few this will change. It cannot be ignored.

[EFerrari]

4. K&R

[me b zola]

5. K&R

[kineneb]

6. how many times must the cannonballs fly...

before they are forever banned?
The answer, my friend,
is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

:cry: