The presentation deals primarily with the experience and views of adults with cerebral paralysis with respect to their own intimate life, and the manner in which the environment in which they live experiences them. Differences between men and women with CP are presented, differences concerning their experience of their selves, their bodies and the experience of their own sexuality; their views about partnership and marriage; and the feeling of social isolation and stigmatisation when it comes to exercising the rights to a full life in all segments of the term. A particular stress is put on raising new issues that should be further explored in this area, and proposals are made for new departures so that the rights of persons with CP to a normal life can be exercised as far as is possible to the full.