Adaptive intimacy is the practice of adjusting how you approach closeness, touch, and sexual activity so it stays comfortable and pleasurable when your body changes due to illness, injury, disability, aging, or medical treatment. It focuses on finding what works for your body now rather than returning to how things were before.

Sensate focus is a structured set of touch-based exercises used in sex therapy in which partners take turns giving and receiving touch while setting aside pressure to perform. It is used to rebuild comfort, communication, and connection.

Neuropathy is damage to peripheral nerves that can cause numbness, tingling, pain, or reduced sensation, often in the hands, feet, or genital area. Because it can change how touch is experienced, it may call for adjusting the type or intensity of stimulation.