Rosemary Basson: working to normalise women's sexual reality

摘要

In 1973, just after she got her MRCP, Rosemary Basson was working as a locum registrar, caring for young men with spinal-cord injuries "Basically I was in charge of their bladders and kidneys, catheterising them three times daily", she recalls Given her responsibilities, she had thought, "surely someone's going to ask me about sexual function, and I don't know the answer". She went to her superiors for advice They told her to avoid the issue and even to tell the young man's wife or girlfriend to find another sexual partner