If you've never dated a blind person, you may be concerned about the relationship between blindness and sexuality. You may not be sure what to do when it's time to be intimate. This feeling is completely normal. You would probably feel exactly the same even if your partner had normal vision. While the best way to approach this is to discuss the topic of intimacy with your blind partner, talking about sex isn't easy for some people. To avoid unnecessary confusion or relationship problems, here's what you need to know before having sex with a blind person.
Feeling attraction
While people with normal vision are usually attracted to someone based on their physical appearance, blind people rely on something completely different. A blind person is stimulated by the sound of a person's voice or the way he moves, talks or smells. This means that visually impaired people need to spend some time with someone to determine whether they find him or her attractive. The interaction should be direct (but not necessarily physical), because blind people rely on their instincts and other senses when meeting new people.
When a blind person finds someone attractive, he wants to get to know his potential love interest better by using his senses. The way someone smells can be a huge turn-on for blind people, so it's very important to smell nice and fresh when dating a blind person. Sound also plays a major role in the most intimate moments. The electrical charge in your breath and voice is almost visible to a blind person and can reveal a lot about how you feel. Touch is often the most dominant sense and a direct substitute for sight. Facial features, skin and muscle texture, and softness of hair are what blind people convert into visual images and use to form an image of their partners in their minds.
Sex feels different
According to people who were not born blind but have lost sight at some point in their lives, sex feels extra special now that they cannot see their partner. During sex, a blind person can experience all the functions of his partner at the same time and ultimately 'see' them as a whole. For visually impaired people, it's not just about physical attraction, but a much deeper sense of intimacy between two people who can truly reveal themselves to each other.
Because of their inability to see, blind people focus more on other aspects of their relationship. From the moment they meet their partners, whether through a dating site for the blind or in person, visually impaired people work harder to get to know the right person than just paying attention to physical characteristics. This is why a relationship with a blind person is more about exploring intimacy and learning to be more attentive and aware of each other's needs.
It's a common misconception that blind people don't experience sexual attraction due to their inability to see, but this couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, blind people have happy and successful sexual relationships just like everyone else.
500,000 Canadians are blind or
visually impaired.
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Let your guard down
Being intimate with a blind person may feel new to you, but if you are open about your fears and honest about your expectations, you have nothing to worry about. Once you let your guard down and realize that intimacy for the blind is more than just being physical, you will experience sex like never before and enjoy it with someone who will cherish you with every fiber of his being.
It's just coffee
Playing the dating game takes time and effort, but try to have fun along the way:
Style i in profile.Skip the banal lines and add personality with a little humor to your dating biography.
Be realistic.Honesty is always the best policy and reduces the chance of an unhappy ending.
You guessed wrong.Some of the best stories come from dating disasters and crazy situations. Be brave, you may have to kiss a lot of frogs to meet your prince or princess.
Do not hurry.Go for a long walk or a coffee date before the first meeting, just to see how gorgeous and compatible this person is in real life.
Three dates and three months.Experts suggest that three dates will give you a good feeling for the person, and three months is almost enough time to find out if this relationship has good long-term potential.
Reprinted fromgehandicaptendating.com
