Fayzal Mahamed is an Anthropology and Sexuality researcher in the Department of Social Work at the University of Johannesburg. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. ^[2]

Mahamed is divorced.

He takes care of his son, Mustafa Mahamed, who was born with Cerebral palsy and is unable to talk, but can communicate emotions through sounds.

Mahamed feeds, changes and bathes his son.

In October 2017, Mahamed wrote a blog post about masturbating his son.

The post was met with some controversy, although Mahamed explains that he sought a sexual release for his son after seeing him start to get erections, and that no other method was possible.

The blog post sees sexual rights for the disabled as a natural outgrowth of their other expanded social rights in recent times.

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