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 | Today is the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I've never liked the name of the day as it seems to slide around the important question of who or what we're meant to be paying more attention to, but any excuse to talk about sex and disability is a good one. ~ Cory | | International Day of Disability: The Sex Edition
Forget about this one day thing. Here's a list of recommended books, articles, films, podcasts, and websites to start (or continue) your exploration of sexuality and disability for weeks, months, and years. Plus, for the keeners among you, two small actions to raise awareness that you can do from anywhere.
| Ableism Before Sex
Ableism is like that guy who always cuts you off before you can even start a sentence. Actually it's like an invisible person inside your mouth, inside your mind, that redirects your thoughts before you think them. It may be the biggest obstacle to sex, and it's definitely one we all need to deal with.
| Sex After Combat
There isn't one way that being deployed and living in an active combat zone screws you up. There are lots of ways. And even if sex seems unrelated to combat, once members of the military return home they are never exactly the same, and neither are their sex lives. Which doesn't mean there can't be healthy and great sex after combat. But usually it takes some time.
| Seeing Over Sex
An About.com reader writes: I'm a 26 year-old blind female and I've been with my boyfriend, now husband, for nearly four years. He's sweet, funny, smart, and the ideal guy. But sex is a problem. We've lost a lot of the intensity we had before and I'm worried about him getting bored. He said he's also worried about that. I want to be exciting and different and keep him interested. But how do I be spontaneous and sexy at once? I feel guilty that I can't see enough to know when I look sexy, I'm not even sure how to do that. I don't know what my question is exactly but I'm writing to you as I'm afraid to bring this up with anyone around me because I feel like they wouldn't be able to separate the sex from the disability, and in some ways I think that's good, but in others not so much.
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