Sexuality and spinal cord injury: some psychosocial considerations.

Sexual functioning in patients with spinal cord injury has been the subject of considerable research interest in recent years. There have been numerous studies of both physiological and psychological aspects of sexual functioning, but only the physiological part of this literature has been organized in a systematic fashion. This paper reviews 33 articles that deal mainly or exclusively with psychosocial aspects of sexuality. It is observed that the psychosocial literature in this area is relatively diffuse, dealing with concepts that are inadequately specified and validated.