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Primer Beso

El hecho de ser una persona discapacitada no le impidio a esta joven explorar su sexualidad..

Sexual Images of the Disabled: Law Aims to Protect the Legally Incompetent

Leroy Moore’s naked body is slender and sinewy, but his unsteady gait and arms that swing like the white scarf that hangs from his mouth reveal his vulnerability. A poet reads—Do you come open or do you come trapped by your own inhibitions and fears of the perfect body, the perfect erotic?—as he kneels on the ground.

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Patty Berne's Sins Invalid: Sex, art and disability

Patty Berne reveals incidences in her life that led her to start a performance group that examines sexuality and disability.

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Performance art group Sins Invalid documents sex and disability

Director Patty Berne prepares for her group's performance at San Francisco's Brava Theater. Through art and personal expression, Sins Invalid is changing people's perceptions of sexuality and disability.         

Maria Luisa Espinoza

Cuando ten a solo 11 anos, Maria Luisa Espinoza Garc a, fue escogida por su madre para que la cuidara en sus d as de enfermedad

Soldiers

Thousands of troops have been injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The soldiers—most of them young men under 25—are vulnerable to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. But they don't just need physical and mental rehabilitation. Many deserve to learn how to regain a healthy sexuality. Is sex over? Injured vets want answers An

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Let's Get Physical

About.com's Cory Silverberg knows a thing or two about sexual positions. And often differently-abled folks are the ones taking advantage of them.          

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Sins Invalid

Patty Berne talks about sex, love, and Sins Invalid, a performance that aims to expand perceptions of beauty and eroticism, while stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability.

The Right to Pleasure

There’s nothing wrong with me. I want to do this, I’m choosing to do this, and I don’t mind doing this exchange, money for sex. I prefer to do that than have my situation therapized. That was all Dr. Russell Shuttleworth needed to hear before taking his long-time friend and employer—a thirty-three-year old man

Disabled Early, Gay Late

A Scotsman reflects on his life