Disability

Having a disability doesn’t mean not having sexuality, but you’d never know that from the messaging out there. Here’s sex, relationships and bodies information for people with a range of disabilities, from neurodiversity to chronic illness to mobility or cognitive disability. Nothing about us without us: our disability information is almost always written by people with disabilities themselves.

ASL sign for 'Disability', a raised forefinger ("D") with arrows indicating the gesture (forefinger down, thumb out, whole hand in direction of pinky)

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Articles and Advice in this area:

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  • Lisa Laman

Just because you face your own set of specific challenges doesn’t mean you get a free pass to discount the humanity of someone else.

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  • Eva Sweeney

People often have day-to-day coping mechanisms to help manage their spasticity, but what do you do when you have spasticity and want to have sex?

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  • Lisa Laman

For individuals on the Autism spectrum or anyone with some kind of disability, it can be hard to ask for help. Here’s a little advice from someone who knows.

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  • Carrie Kaufman

It’s so important to be able to tell our partners how to support and pleasure us in the ways that work for us.

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  • Madison Parrotta

Depending on your disability, everything involving sex may require help – and if your parent is your primary caregiver, bringing up these topics (let alone asking for assistance with them) is not an easy task.

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  • Nicole Guappone

While chronic pain (including pain with sex) is common, it is not “normal.” If it hurts, it’s usually because something is wrong.

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  • Lisa Laman

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all process for deciding how, and when, to talk with a date about being autistic.

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  • Andrew Gurza

It took a long time for me to come to terms with my singledom, but now that I’m here, I couldn’t be happier.

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  • Andrew Gurza

When your disabled body decides to literally crap out on you, how do you bring sexy back?

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  • s.e. smith

You can do it (with disabilities)!