I'm kind of torn on this one. If the mental retardation was severe enough to create a personality that you would not really click with and pursue a meaningful much less sexual relationship in someone else, I don't think I'd be able to have any type of sexual relationship with the person. I've spent a bit of time around disabled people in my line of work, and the mind set is really one of a child, or adolescent the majority of the time. I take that to mean they really don't have enough awareness of what is going on to give full consent, and I would feel wrong in pressuring anything from them.
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna
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