Category: Resources
-
The Erasure of Sexuality in the Health Care System
When was the last time you felt comfortable asking about your sexual health, or mentioning your sexual relationship, at the doctor’s office? Sexuality is always a potential part of healthcare – we don’t usually leave our feelings, our relationships, our reproductive choices or experiences, and all the other pieces that can be part of our…
-
Four Things Healthcare Providers Need to Know About Sexuality and Disability
It just feels like one more thing my illness is taking away from me. A friend who has several chronic illnesses had just finished telling me how she has to change her sexual practices for a while. She has a primary sexual and romantic partner, and several “friends with benefits” she has sex with occasionally.…
-
Sexuality Attitudes, Disability Myths, and Shopping For Sex Toys
Of the five sex toy stores I’ve personally visited over the past 15 years, only one had a flat entrance. Of those five, only three had employees who didn’t respond to me as a visibly disabled person with obvious anxiety, and, in one case, hostility. — Sex toys – It’s one of the first things…