Sorry if this seems like an insensitive thing to talk about or inflammatory title, but I’m interested to know how people who genuinely live with this condition would navigate romantic/sexual/intimate relationships & interactions.
If someone with DID has multiple personas/identities and one of them has an intimate sexual experience with someone else without the consent of the other identities, is it a violation of those identities’ bodily autonomy since they share the same body (& mind)?
Also, I guess this might be slightly more straightforward, but if someone had a sexual interaction with someone with DID and believed it to be a particular persona they had a relationship with/consented to the interaction with, but then it turned out to be a different identity that was “present”/in control of their body at the time, would that identity have committed a violation (whether they deliberately deceived/tricked them knowingly, or even if they were unaware the person didn’t know it was them but hadn’t made it clear which personality they were)?
I guess slightly related, I’ve always wondered how conjoined twins manage these sorts of compromises. I’m sure it’s possible for one conjoined twin to violate the other’s bodily autonomy by engaging in sexual relationships with other people without their consent (like maybe while they were asleep or weren’t able to control their body) right?
Yes, I know systems who have had alters sexually abuse other alters in the same body. It’s a sadly quite common thing actually, most likely because of how persecutors form.