"Yours in love": What happens if a woman with an intellectual disability claims her love from you, which is quite normal?
This article arises from the research process in a Day Center in the city of Córdoba-Argentina, in which I collected data for my Master's thesis in Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba (UNC). I investigated how coexistence develops between professionals and persons with intellectual disabilities, focusing on its borders, mainly erotic-sexual-affective. Initially, I noticed that the temporal control and the differential spaces between the two actors were inherent to the institution, however, the topic addressed here does not deal specifically with this observation, but with the possible human bonds and not in those times and spaces. Because I observed that in the daily coexistence between persons with disabilities and professionals, the possibilities of forging love bonds between them are hindered. I must say that I only became aware of this once questioned by Karina, a 30-year-old woman with a diagnosis of intellectual disability (moderate mental retardation), who tried to have a relationship with me. It raised then a question that I had not considered before: why are certain bodies and subjectivities appealing and others are not, which drove me to experience the social drama that occurs when borders are reduced, as a sign, according to Butler (2009), not only of the conditions of recognizability of the human and the normal, but also of what Rubin (2018) calls erotic injustice.