Sex education and sexual interest don’t end at a certain age. Melanie Ramey is here not only to debunk myths about sexuality, sexual involvement, and connection later in life but to shed light on sexual information for all ages. This podcast will answer the questions that were never properly answered in health class and address the sex information we need but are too reluctant to discuss. Join Melanie for frank discussions about bodies, sexual health, desire, and age, with honesty and humor.
Sexually Speaking with Melanie Ramey
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Sex education and sexual interest don’t end at a certain age. Melanie Ramey is here not only to debunk myths about sexuality, sexual involvement, and connection later in life but to shed light on sexual information for all ages. This podcast will answer the questions that were never properly answered in health class and address the sex information we need but are too reluctant to discuss. Join Melanie for frank discussions about bodies, sexual health, desire, and age, with honesty and humor.
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Recent Episodes
July 7, 2025
Taboos
Sex educator Melanie Ramey explores societal taboos surrounding sex and death, specifically addressing intimacy and sexuality in palliative and hospice care, and offers insights on initiating these crucial conversations in healthcare; this is an interview.
June 2, 2025
Myths, Sexually Speaking
Sex educator Melanie Ramey debunks pervasive myths surrounding the sexuality of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, challenging false assumptions and advocating for better sex education and understanding within the community in this interview.
May 19, 2025
The Disabled are Able to Have Sex
<p>In this episode, sex educator and therapist Melanie Ramey addresses the need for legislation, education, and understanding regarding the sexual health needs of people with disabilities. Only very recently in our history have we had legislation protecting the human rights of those with physical or cognitive disabilities. As recently as the 70s, disabled persons were simply institutionalized and forgotten about. Melanie unpacks the history of how the disabled have been treated and highlights how much more education and support is required to understand the sexual needs of those with disabilities. </p><p><br>One poignant story that Melanie relates is that of a woman who had been institutionalized immediately after giving birth to her son, on the advice of a doctor. It was only after the son was in his forties that the state hospital where she lived was about to discharge her into his care. The stigma about mental health was so great that he had not told his wife and children about his mother for fear of judgement. Melanie assisted in helping the family find a suitable care home for the mother and the family integrated her into their lives, but the most shocking discovery was the reason for the mother’s institutionalization: post-partum depression. The truth is that persons with disabilities, be they physical or cognitive, think about and desire sex the same as any other human being. However, persons with disabilities are more likely to be assaulted and their accounts rejected by the police due to difficulties in prosecution. Melanie’s frank discussion on all aspects of sexual health and assault of persons with disabilities highlights the need for better legislation, education, and support from society.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources discussed in this episode:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-get-sex-education-from-aristotle/id1796024034?i=1000697352431">Episode 2: Don’t Get Sex Education from Aristotle</a></li><li>Watson Institute: <a href="https://www.thewatsoninstitute.org/sexual-education-children-disabilities/">“Sexual Education for Children with Disabilities”</a> by Dr. Rachel Schwartz</li><li>NPR: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/570224090/the-sexual-assault-epidemic-no-one-talks-about">“The Sexual Assault Epidemic No One Talks About”</a> by Joseph Shapiro</li></ul><p>—</p><p><strong><br>Contact Melanie Ramey: </strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sexuallyspeakingwithmelanie/">Instagram: @SexuallySpeakingWithMelanie</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572528337220">Facebook: Sexually Speaking with Melanie Ramey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sexually-speaking-with-melanie-ramey">Linkedin: Sexually Speaking with Melanie Ramey<br></a><br></li></ul><p>—</p><p><br></p><p>Canon in D Major performed by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License</p><p>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</p><p><br></p><p>—</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Narrator: </strong>[00:00:06] The human need for intimacy is no different for the disabled than it is for anybody else. Yet society has not treated people with special needs appropriately in this regard, be it for stigma, ignorance or disinterest. Well, it's way past time to safeguard the rights of the disabled by getting these issues on the table. Welcome to the Sexually Speaking podcast with sex educator and therapist Melanie Ramey.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Melanie Ramey: </strong>[00:00:35] Hello and welcome. If you have been listening to these podcasts, you know that we believe and that we know that we are all sexual beings from the day we're born until the day we die. And that includes everyone. And that includes people with disabilities. They are created as sexual beings, just like the rest of us who may not have a disability. I want to begin today to talk with you about this whole issue, because I think a lot of people are unfamiliar with the manner in which people with disabilities have been treated historically. And I think it's really important to have the context, because actually, until the early 70s, late 70s, if parents with a child who had a physical or a perceived intellectual disability, they were recommended by physicians to place the child in an institution and forget about them. Now, these institutions were often state hospitals that had actually been built for people who were alleged to be mentally ill or insane or whatever. Occasionally states had some kind of facility just for children, but they are the same kind of situation where people were just put and forgotten about. In the late 60s, a deinstitutionalization movement started in this country, and this was the idea that people with mental illnesses or mental problems could be treated in the community. Now, this came about because at the same time, or as a consequence of some research, of course, some medications had been developed that could control some of the mental difficulties that people had and so they could receive medications and live in the community.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Melanie Ramey: </strong>[00:02:46] The situation was that people who had been in these hospitals for years were suddenly discharged to families, and the families had no idea of what to do. I will never forget a very, very upset client who came to see me, the agency where I worked as a social worker. He had been informed about a week before that his mother, who had lived in the state hospital for 40 years, was being discharged in about a week and that he, as her only child, would be responsible for her. She had been hospitalized shortly after his birth, and through the years, as he grew older, his father told him about her and he visited her in the hospital. After his father died, he continued visiting, however he had married and had two children, but he had never told his wife or his children that his mother was alive, and this was because the stigma about mental illness was so strong that he was afraid that they would think he might become mentally ill, or that he would pass some kind of mental illness onto them, so he never told them. I will never forget visiting his mother in the state hospital where she had lived for 40 years, and together we read her medical record.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Melanie Ramey: </strong>[00:04:19] And the truth was, she had what we now know as postpartum depression after he was born. And at that time it was thought that she was going crazy, and so the doctor advised her husband to put her in the state hospital, which he did. And there she stayed for 40 years. She was a very pleasant, a very compliant woman who was in her early 70s by then. I saw literally hundreds of persons there in that state Hospital, who had been put there and forgotten and were now suddenly going to be sent out of the hospital. She, I think, was one of the few who still had family that had continued to be with her or to come and visit with her. I managed for her to be transferred directly to the Jewish Center for the aged, where she lived for several more years. After this was accomplished, the client, his wife and his two children came into my office because he wanted to tell them about his mother, but he wanted to do it if I was present, so I could maybe help answer some of their questions. Well, they were shocked, as you can imagine, and they had many questions about what the situation was and so forth. And I think that she was really one of the few that had a good ending to her situation, because the daughter in law and the two daughters got to know her, and they visited with her, and they took her to their home for special occasions. And it was just really one of the classic examples of how the ...</p>
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