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.

In the context of intimacy, an assistive device is any product that helps a person take part in sexual activity more comfortably or independently, such as extended-reach aids, grips, straps, or mounts that accommodate limited mobility or strength.