Sex with disability – whether it’s you or a partner who’s disabled or neurodiverse – doesn’t usually have to mean sex that’s harder or more challenging, it usually just means we have to bring out or grow our listening, self-advocacy, and adaptation skills, things that always make sex better, disabled or not.
Sex & Disability
Articles and Advice in this area:
- s.e. smith
Approaching consent through a disability lens opens up new opportunities in all kinds of relationships.
- s.e. smith
If you want to explore various aspects of kink — or whatever you want to call it — there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, and it can be fun and one way to build rich, fulfilling relationships.
- s.e. smith
Nondisabled people sometimes assume masturbation is a snap, but for some of us, it can be more challenging. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
- s.e. smith
Being disabled doesn’t mean you can’t have a rewarding and awesome sex life.
- Robin Mandell
You’re welcome! What you’re asking about here is something a lot of people experience and wonder about whether they have a disability or not. Even if these kinds of uncertainties about our sexualities weren’t pretty common, even if what you’re talking about was unique to you and a few other people…
- Heather Corinna
I asked my hands-down favorite writer about sex and disability, Cory Silverberg, to answer this one for you. Here’s what Cory had to say: It already sounds like you have a good sense of what’s happening with your body since the spinal cord injury and one of the great things about having incredible…
- Heather Corinna
Being inclusive of disabled people in sex education and sexuality as a whole benefits those of us who are disabled, but it also can benefit everybody.
- Stephanie
You know people really are all very different, and usually when we try to compare one partner with those of our past we miss the mark by a long shot because of those differences. So lets break your question down into a few different parts and take things one at a time. Let’s take the big question…
- Heather Corinna
Really, truly, the longer we’re in relationships, the more we’re going to go through times when for one partner or the other – sometimes both – libidos are low or sex just isn’t a high priority. That’s okay. To expect our sex lives as time goes on to resemble how they were when we were brand new…