Love and Sex Padlet by Isabella Daniel

Sex and Disability

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-24 15:24:43 UTC

The topic of sex and disability intrigues because it challenges common assumptions about sexuality for disabled persons. Before this class I never thought about how individuals with disabilities experience intimacy, especially since it is never portrayed in media or shows. I used the databases

JSTOR
Project Muse
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-24 15:56:51 UTC

This excerpt out of a book called "Sex and Disability" relates to my topic by speaking on the concept of "sexual culture" with disabilities and describes that "sex life" implies a private form of sexual expression typically accessible to able-bodied individuals. While the better term "sexual culture" broadens this to include the diverse experiences of sexuality that disabled people navigate. The shift from “sex life” to “sexual culture” depopularizes invalid assumptions about sexuality surrounding disabled persons. Citation: Mollow, Anna and Robert McRuer. Sex and Disability. 1 ed. Duke University Press, 2012. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/book/70930.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-26 19:18:01 UTC

This article explores how disability and sexuality relate focused on women. This relates to the topic of sex and disability by debunking the myth that disability= no sexuality. Through this research, it exposes how disability is not exactly inability, and that disabled women are not always incapable sexually, but societal norms make it seem that way in media. The media also teaches us to see the disabled as a defect so it makes them seem not desirable or not

capable of having sexual desires and lustful

needs and wants.

Shanaaz Majiet. “Sexuality and Disability.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 28, 1996, pp. 77–80. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4065761. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-26 20:10:06 UTC

This passage explores how people with disabilities deal with fetishization and desexualization. It challenges the view that disabled people are non sexual while also critiquing how some are fetishized in ways that can objectify. By exploring terms like "deaf-wannabees" and devotees, it reveals how society struggles to recognize disabled people as sexual beings with complex desires instead of objects. Umansky, Lauri. "Que(E)Rying Sex, Disability, and Feminism." The Women's Review of Books, vol. 30, no. 2, March-April 2013, pp. 14+. Archives of Sexuality and Gender, link-gale-com.proxy.kennesaw.edu/apps/doc/PQOMGF805583939/AHSI?u=kennesaw_main&sid=bookmark-AHSI&xid=b58550ec. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-27 05:32:20 UTC

This passage relates to the topic of sex and disability by showing how medical, and political systems work to deny disabled people "sexual agency". It highlights how medical professionals often reinforce norms that unfairly give disabled persons no control over their body by denying them birth control, limiting their privacy, or deciding whether they’re "allowed" to have sex. This article calls for enforced sexual rights for disabled people.

Wilkerson, Abby L. (Abby Lynn). "Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency." NWSA Journal, vol. 14 no. 3, 2002, p. 33-57. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/37983.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-27 05:43:28 UTC

This passage relates to the topic of sex and disability by highlighting that sexuality is crucial for disabled women, just as it is for non disabled women, and that being loved and desired plays a crucial role in developing self esteem. However, harmful stereotypes will lead disabled women to have low self-esteem and body issues. The text calls for open, honest, and respectful discussions about sexuality for all bodies and experiences.

Shanaaz Majiet. “Women and Disability.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 16, 1993, pp. 91–95. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4065566. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-27 05:52:09 UTC

This passage addresses how people with disabilities, especially women, are denied "recognition of their sexual and reproductive rights." It highlights the assumption that disabled individuals are unfit for relationships or parenthood, and don't deserve sexual agency. The text calls for stronger "alliances" between disability and gender rights movements to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights are within reach for all

Addlakha, Renu, et al. “Disability and Sexuality: Claiming Sexual and Reproductive Rights.” Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 25, no. 50, 2017, pp. 4–9. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26495927. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

isabella4daniel — 2025-04-27 05:59:54 UTC

This passage reveals how the concept of pleasure is ignored in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities which is a different side than physical disability. It highlights how support systems and disability services focus on "functional" outcomes rather than well-being. Which in turn neglects the importance of sexual and sensory pleasure. The exert also shows how discomfort will prevent caregivers from addressing sexuality and pleasure, further distancing disabled individuals from reality. Alexander, Natasha, and Miriam Taylor Gomez. “Pleasure, Sex, Prohibition, Intellectual Disability, and Dangerous Ideas.” Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 25, no. 50, 2017, pp. 114–20. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26495937. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.