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Sex & Disability

Despite what magazines, billboards, television and film would have us believe, sexuality isn’t necessarily relegated to the “able-bodied.” People of all abilities are entitled to sexual wellness and happiness. All too often, people with disabilities are desexualized by doctors, care-givers, friends, family—and in many cases— themselves. NSRC believes that moving society closer to understanding the sexual realities of people with disabilities will result in greater freedom and expanded sexual literacy for all of us.

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.

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.

Disabled Early, Gay Late

A Scotsman reflects on his life

Working It Out

When I was in high school, before Donna Summer even had a record deal, my friends and I wandered through our existence reading, writing, and painting to the sounds of Donovan and Leonard Cohen. We were longhair intellectuals. Fearless and buoyed by our own self-righteousness, we fought to maneuver funds from new gymnasium equipment to improve

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

Freak

Since 2002, disabled artists in the U.K. have gained increased funding support. With that, though, has come the dilution of 'disability art' into 'disability and the arts', which has seen the former slowly lose its original connection to the Disability Rights Movement of the 1980s.

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User's Guide for the Paralyzed Penis: Sex after spinal cord injury

I’ve been a paraplegic for eleven years and I’m also a professional writer, so you would think writing about disability would come easily for me. It doesn’t. Most of my writing is humorous, and it’s difficult for me to use that light touch about disability issues without appearing to be in denial. Full disclosure then:

There is a S.A.F.E. Place

When I was a college sophomore I lived with a man whose idea of a joke was, "A woman is something you screw on the bed and then it does the housework." He would often hide my textbooks and toss my belongings in the front yard during finals. Eventually I tricked him into letting me have the master bedroom, which had a lock on the door, so that

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.

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

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