Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About Sexuality
Nondisabled people often desexualize disabled people, assuming that impairments render people uninterested in or incapable of sex. These attitudes can lead to very patronizing treatment of disabled people when they attempt to exert autonomy, engage in relationships and make their own sexually empowered decisions. Such attitudes can range from surprise and confusion about seeing disabled people in sexual relationships to harmful court decisions stripping disabled people of the right to see or live with their partners, as seen in the case of Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels, who were forced to sue for the right to live together after marriage.
“How do you have sex?” “Can you even have sex if you use a wheelchair?” These are the kinds of questions disabled people encounter, along with even more intrusive and rude queries about anatomy, physiology and sexuality. In relationships where one partner is nondisabled, that partner is often viewed with pity and sympathy by outsiders who assume the marriage is one of charity or mercy, not a rich, loving relationship that also includes a healthy sex life. Those with visible disabilities are assumed to be sexless.
In “Undressing Disability,” men and women pose in sultry, warm, friendly poses that both showcase their beautiful bodies and their sexuality, sending a potent message to the viewer about disabled sexuality. The message isn’t simply that disabled people have and enjoy sex, but that they can be empowered sexually. While some may use adaptive methods to enjoy sex, disabled people are both having and redefining sex and relationships, thinking outside the box courtesy of their impairments.
Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About Sexuality
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Can disability be sexy? Photographer Holly Norris and model jes sachse challenged common assumptions about disability and sexuality with their American Able project, and now, Enhance the UK is doing the same with Undressing Disability. Disabled models with a variety of impairments including cerebral palsy, rheumatoid arthritis and blindness are posing in their skivvies for a 2014 calendar that confronts social attitudes about disability in a very raw, immediate, and real way.
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Can disability be sexy? Photographer Holly Norris and model jes sachse challenged common assumptions about disability and sexuality with their American Able project, and now, Enhance the UK is doing the same with Undressing Disability. Disabled models with a variety of impairments including cerebral palsy, rheumatoid arthritis and blindness are posing in their skivvies for a 2014 calendar that confronts social attitudes about disability in a very raw, immediate, and real way.
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Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About Sexuality[b]by[/b] s.e. smith [url=http://www.care2.com/causes/disabled-people-strip-down-to-combat-stereotypes-about-sexuality.html] http://www.care2.com/causes/disabled-people-strip-down-to-combat-stereotypes-about-sexuality.html[/url] [b]get causes updates[/b] Can disability be sexy? Photographer Holly Norris and model jes sachse challenged common assumptions about disability and sexuality with their American Able project, and now, Enhance the UK is doing the same with Undressing Disability. Disabled models with a variety of impairments including cerebral palsy, rheumatoid arthritis and blindness are posing in their skivvies for a 2014 calendar that confronts social attitudes about disability in a very raw, immediate, and real way. Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About Sexuality
Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About SexualityNondisabled people often desexualize disabled people, assuming that impairments render people uninterested in or incapable of sex. These attitudes can lead to very patronizing treatment of disabled people when they attempt to exert autonomy, engage in relationships and make their own sexually empowered decisions. Such attitudes can range from surprise and confusion about seeing disabled people in sexual relationships to harmful court decisions stripping disabled people of the right to see or live with their partners, as seen in the case of Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels, who were forced to sue for the right to live together after marriage. “How do you have sex?” “Can you even have sex if you use a wheelchair?” These are the kinds of questions disabled people encounter, along with even more intrusive and rude queries about anatomy, physiology and sexuality. In relationships where one partner is nondisabled, that partner is often viewed with pity and sympathy by outsiders who assume the marriage is one of charity or mercy, not a rich, loving relationship that also includes a healthy sex life. Those with visible disabilities are assumed to be sexless. In “Undressing Disability,” men and women pose in sultry, warm, friendly poses that both showcase their beautiful bodies and their sexuality, sending a potent message to the viewer about disabled sexuality. The message isn’t simply that disabled people have and enjoy sex, but that they can be empowered sexually. While some may use adaptive methods to enjoy sex, disabled people are both having and redefining sex and relationships, thinking outside the box courtesy of their impairments. Disabled People Strip Down to Combat Stereotypes About Sexuality