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Sexual Disability

The idea of a disabled person engaging in a sexual activity is a thought which is not entertained in mainstream society. However, for a disabled individual the issue of sexuality is of utmost importance. Why should this topic be anymore important to disabled persons than to able bodied persons? How is the want of a disabled person to be sexually attractive or sexually active be any different from the desires arousing in a normal person? These questions need answering and when they are, they turn out to be really quite simple. The issue of attractiveness may not be of a great importance to a disabled, but the experience involved is. Disabled persons are not simply a different version of able bodied persons. Far from it, they comprise of a community of people with a different and very unique culture and are filled with social expectations.

These being very different from normal individuals, and are very notable. Many of which are based on the fact that it is not based on physical differences in being more human than each other or having varied human emotions, but infact lies within the realm of what is deemed as sexually desirable.Disability in general, is viewed by society at large as being inherently negative.

It is not however negative or positive, it just is. It is a state in which a human being is, and is no different than a gender or a racial status. But it is very difficult to live in a world which has been created without the disabled in mind. It is no wonder that the disabled are summarized most often as being “Mad at the world”. These feelings are the least reaction that one would have towards the world which views you as being weird or different, and would come across as being unfriendly and condemning. Thus it is not the disability in a person which brings on the feelings of anger and frustration, it is however the environment and the surrounding which brings these feelings to the fore.

“I’m only half a man/woman now that I’m disabled”. These are standard portrayals of the disabled in the world today. Media, T .V. and print has often filtered such views. The idea of the disabled engaging in sexual activity is never projected but it is never even thought of. Infact more times than none it is presumed that the want of having sex completely dies, and the image of them engaging in it is thought of as being “Gross” or “Sick”.With a lot of activists and writers empathizing with the disabled the views of many have changed, although there still exists a majority of people who are still bias and do need to be made more aware and the norms removed. Our world was made for “people”, somehow the disabled not fitting into this “Normal” and “Rosy” picture. Why not make changes and work on a world which is “Rosy” enough for all!

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