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How does a hospital stay impact your sex drive & feelings about your body?
Hello there, dear friends! Welcome back to another instalment of Caring About Sex and Disability! Have you ever wondered how a hospital stay might impact your views on disability and sexuality? If you have, then do I have a blog for you! Recently, I decided to take a trip out of town to visit some…
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How you can celebrate disability pride every single day!
July was Disability Pride Month! But that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Disability Pride long after July is over. So, for this instalment of Caring About Sex and Disability, I wanted to explore some of the ways that YOU, whether you are disabled or not, can honour and celebrate Disability Pride every single day! Let’s…
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What do you do when you can’t do it?
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! Well, hello dear reader. I have a bit of a story for you this blog, in order to set the scene. A few weeks ago, I had a session with my favourite sex worker. We were in the throes of our session; me in bed,…
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Marriage equality – part two
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! Welcome back, dear Reader! Last time we explored how the Disability Support Pension is inextricably tied to marriage rights in Australia. We learned that even if your paramour got down on bended knee at Taylor Swift’s Aussie Eras tour to ask you to take the…
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Marriage equality – part one
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! I want you to imagine something for a minute. Imagine that one of your clients has met their soulmate–that one true person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. Now imagine that they have been proposed to in one of the…
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Consent and Disability is A LOT more nuanced than you might think: How do we foster a culture of consent in a care setting, and outside of it too?
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. Over the past couple of years, discussions of consent have become a touchstone of the world around us. Pop onto any social justice followers Instagram or Twitter and it won’t take you long to see some version of “consent is sexy” on someone’s post. Funnily enough though,…