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Here’s How – Sex and Disability

By Gary Karp • May 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Disability

My first article on sexuality and disability spoke to the question, “Can they do it?” The answer, of course, was a resounding — if slightly qualified — “Yes!”
So now on to the question of “How do they do it?”
The first order of business is having “The Talk.”
To the degree that someone has “limitations” (the quotes [...]



What’s Possible – Sex and Disability

By Gary Karp • Apr 21st, 2001 • Category: Sex and Disability

My friend Jen is a very attractive woman in her 20s. She’s a Ph.D. candidate and a model — very vibrant and smart. She’s also very sexually attractive. And she uses a wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury.
For most people, this inspires mixed feelings. To them, her disability seems to be in blatant contradiction [...]