Tag: myth-busting
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A Small Step Forward for Blind Parents
I wrote a while back about the multi-layered and inexcusable discrimination many disabled parents face. There’s nothing about having a disability that makes someone less capable of parenting. That feels too obvious to even say, but it’s a truth, obvious or not, that needs to be repeated over and over until people get it, until…
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We’re All Normal, And Other Sexy Scientific Facts
We’re all normal. let me repeat that, we’re all normal. Our bodies are normal. Our relationships are normal. Our sexual desires are normal. Our sex lives are normal. Note: This only applies if you don’t use sex as a weapon. If you do,stop…just stop. * Emily Nagoski is the Wellness Education Director at Smith College.…
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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…
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How do disabled people have sex, anyway?
Can we all agree that asking random people on the street (or in the mall, or anywhere, really) about their sex life is just plain creepy? People with disabilities are asked, much more often than you’d think, how, or if, we have sex. No, really, this happens all the time. If it’s not about sex…
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Interview with Senior Sexuality Advocate Joan Price
I published this interview with Joan Price on another blog more than three years ago. Since then, I’ve met Joan several times, and she’s just as funny and smart in person. Joan’s approach to sex and sexuality is a perfect fit here at Ready, Sexy, Able. Not all the changes seniors go through will be…
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Sexual Expression Is a Meaningful Activity, Too
I wrote the following post in March 2014, after attending Mara Levy‘s talk, Problem-Solving Sex with Disability at the Catalyst Conference. Mara Levy is an Occupational Therapist (OT) in Washington DC. Occupational therapists help people who’ve experienced injury or illness to return to activities that are meaningful to them—activities like walking, driving, working, crafting, and…
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Sexualities and People With Intellectual Disabilities
This was originally written and published in late August, 2014 after I attended Jessica Naslund’s workshop, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: A Systemic Approach to Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities, at The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit. Workshop description: As practitioners and educators we are guiding individuals through their unique sexual journeys. People with cognitive disabilities have…
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Sexuality. Disability. Not so different after all.
Talking about sexuality and disability is a big deal. Until recently, most of what we saw in mainstream media were reports of disabled people being abused and assaulted, or syrupy-sweet feel-good stories about a person with a disability in a romantic relationship which (gasp!) included sex. Sex, and disability, as experiences, are assumed to be…