Not Work Safe

I was driving home from the gym today and saw a guy out running who was missing a hand. While I would rate that as a comparatively mild disablement (of course I’m saying this and I have all my limbs) I started to wonder about disabled people and how they get down.

I found this British site that has a shitload of articles about the subject of disabled persons and sex. Apparently disabled people are not having enough sex.

Only half of disabled people have had sex in the past year, according to our survey, but that was far from a shock to Alison Lapper.

The artist, known for her nude photographic self-portraits, said this was “not surprising at all” and blamed non-disabled people for the hang-ups they have about sex with disabled people .

“They would rather push it under the carpet and wish we didn’t have sex,” she said.

“I do a lot of work nude. I am more than comfortable with my own body. It is everyone else who thinks it is disgusting and unusual.”

Of those who took part in our survey, more than one-third had not had sex for over a year and a further one in nine had never had sex.