Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives

SAAIL (Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives) is a sex-positive research project that aims to explore and represent autistic adults' intimate lives in affirmative ways.    

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The motivation behind SAAIL:

Our society is set up according to neurotypical dating and relational scripts. A lack of awareness amongst non-autistic people around experiences of neurodiversity may play out in dating and intimate situations can cause barriers for autistic people. This project aims to help address this lack of awareness, asking autistic people how they would like their intimate lives represented and supported.   

SAAIL is funded by the National Institute for Health Research's  School For Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR), with the aim of improving adult social care in England. 

Who the project includes: 

If you are an autistic adult living in England, this project includes you! We aim to include all genders and sexual identities and communities. We want to hear from people of all relationship configurations, from all age groups and ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Help us make SAAIL as diverse and inclusive as possible by participating. 

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The project will also map out the service providers, social care structures, self advocacy groups, and other individuals and organisations that are already supporting autistic adults' intimate lives. If you know or are part of an organisation doing this work, please get in touch.