Posts Tagged ‘disability’

older adults and people with disabilities deserve better than this

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Blog

From Sexual Intelligence
Apparently, Massachusetts state representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein seems to think that adults over 60 and the disabled aren’t able to consent to pose nude or appear in a sexually explicit movie, regardless of their mental capacity. She’s introduced a bill that will make it illegal to take sexually explicit photos of elders, without taking [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]