Author Archive

Caretaking vs. Lovemaking

By Bella Leach • Apr 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Disability

David and are driving through a cold, misty night to pick up his new power wheelchair — the one I forced our HMO to cover after a protracted fight. I pull up to the rehab center’s garage and lift David out of the car. Theresa, the lead therapist, meets us with the wheelchair. I open [...]


They Would Have Been so Beautiful

By Bella Leach • Mar 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Disability

The other night David and I heard a shriek through the walls of our apartment, followed by a rapid knocking at our door.
“I’ve some news!” Cried my neighbor in her English accent. I stared. Had she finally found a house?
She clasped her hands and stared at me in the ancient, wordless of language of women. [...]


Roll Over, Baby: Disabled Lovers, Perfect Love

By Bella Leach • Dec 21st, 2000 • Category: Sex and Disability

This is my Letter to the World.
– Emily Dickinson
The first time David and I made love, I knocked down a curtain rod.
We were in my narrow twin bed, which I’d wedged against the wall to accommodate an overflow of bookcases. I was trying to straddle him while working his cock, hugely erect, into my painfully [...]