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A very significant area of concern for women with disabilities is the issue of sexuality and marriage. Indian society with its emphasis on flawlessness, has failed to recognize the universality of these fundamental needs and sees people with disability as asexual, encouraging the suppression of their sexuality.

Non–people with disability have far too often assumed, wrongly, that women with disabilities are not sexual beings. In addition, societal standards equate their identity as women and as sexual beings by their physical appearance and their desirability to men alone. Both these factors affect how women with disabilities perceive their sexuality.

In a country where wheelchair accessibility is still non–existent, the hearing impaired still cannot communicate with the hearing world and technology has helped very few visually impaired to see, there are many areas in the world of the disabled which are not even visible. There has to be the need to increase public awareness on a more personal level. Equal rights imply equality in the bedroom. It is really quite simple. Sex is sex and people are people.

Read more: The Disabled are Sexual Beings Too