Sexual asistence in social discourse

This bachelors thesis focuses on attitude of posters on the internet discussion forum www.idnes.cz to the subject of sexual assistance. The thesis is divided in two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part concerns sexuality of disabled persons and necessity of sexual education that is still not sufficient. In this part I also define sexual assistance as such and it's introduction in the Czech Republic. In the practical part I describe metodology of the actual research, I interpret and present the results of the research investigation. Concerning the goal of this bachelors thesis and specificity of researched area I applied qualitative research strategy. I also used secondary analysis of documents as a research method. The Goal of this bachelors thesis is to analyse the attitudes of posters on the internet discussion forum www.idnes.cz to articles about sexual assistance. From the above mentioned goal of the thesis I determined following questions: Is attitude of posters to the sexual assistance negative? Are sexual assistants considered to be prostitutes? Research for this bachelors thesis took place from January 2017 to March 2017. I have been selecting those posts from the website www.idnes .cz, that were situated below articles regarding sexual assistance and were suitable for my research investigation. The research investigation reaveled that there were five most common categories of opinions. Most common opinion category was that sexual assistants are prostitutes. Following categories were: oponents, supporters, unavailability due to high price and doubters. Another important finding was that even though sexual assistance is current issue awereness of broad public is insufficient and distorted which is to a large extend caused by making taboo of the sexual assistance. This bachelors thesis can be used as a material for further research or source of information for the broad public