NSRC: National Sexuality Resource Center

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Despite what magazines, billboards, television and film would have us believe, sexuality isn’t necessarily relegated to the “able-bodied.” People of all abilities are entitled to sexual wellness and happiness. All too often, people with disabilities are desexualized by doctors, care-givers, friends, family—and in many cases— themselves. NSRC believes that moving society closer to understanding the sexual realities of people with disabilities will result in greater freedom and expanded sexual literacy for all of us.

Primer Beso

El hecho de ser una persona discapacitada no le impidio a esta joven explorar su sexualidad..

Sex that Mind Forgot

A man with Alzheimer’s and his wife of many years finish lovemaking when he rolls over and tells her, “You’d better hurry up and get your things because my wife will be home soon."

El tabú de la sexualidad y la discapacidad...porque NO son personas ‘asexuadas’

La sexualidad en personas con discapacidades está siendo objeto de mucho interés en la actualidad.

Sexual Images of the Disabled: Law Aims to Protect the Legally Incompetent

Leroy Moore’s naked body is slender and sinewy, but his unsteady gait and arms that swing like the white scarf that hangs from his mouth reveal his vulnerability. A poet reads—Do you come open or do you come trapped by your own inhibitions and fears of the perfect body, the perfect erotic?—as he kneels on the ground.

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Patty Berne's Sins Invalid: Sex, art and disability

Patty Berne reveals incidences in her life that led her to start a performance group that examines sexuality and disability.

Maria Luisa Espinoza

Cuando ten a solo 11 anos, Maria Luisa Espinoza Garc a, fue escogida por su madre para que la cuidara en sus d as de enfermedad

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Let's Get Physical

About.com's Cory Silverberg knows a thing or two about sexual positions. And often differently-abled folks are the ones taking advantage of them.          

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Sins Invalid

Patty Berne talks about sex, love, and Sins Invalid, a performance that aims to expand perceptions of beauty and eroticism, while stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability.

Disabled Early, Gay Late

A Scotsman reflects on his life

Working It Out

When I was in high school, before Donna Summer even had a record deal, my friends and I wandered through our existence reading, writing, and painting to the sounds of Donovan and Leonard Cohen. We were longhair intellectuals. Fearless and buoyed by our own self-righteousness, we fought to maneuver funds from new gymnasium equipment to improve