Review • Disability studies and sexuality

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Validism – or ableism – is an oppression, prejudice or discrimination that affects people with disabilities and assumes that a person without it is considered the norm. This oppressive system does not spare the field of sexualities. The affective and sexual life of people with disabilities is still too often considered from the perspective of ableism, which is rendered invisible by validocentric representations of intimate life. However, during the 1990s, voices were raised to question this situation. Testimonies and statements in favor of a fully-fledged intimate life for people with disabilities have multiplied, bringing this subject out of the shadows and echoing the emergence of disability studies in the academic field. Since then, academic research has invested in this subject, although much remains to be done at the political level. Touching as much the question of body norms as the one of sex work, the question of sexuality and disability is a set of social issues of the first order. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the issues surrounding this topic.

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Aulombard, N. (2019). Femmes handicapées et violences sexuelles ? : entre difficultés de prise en charge et empuissancement. Mouvements, 99(3), 131. https://doi.org/10.3917/mouv.099.0131

Bailey, M. & Mobley, I. A. (2018). Work in the Intersections : A Black Feminist Disability Framework. Gender & Society, 33(1), 19‑40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243218801523

Baril, A. (2018). Hommes trans et handicapés : une analyse croisée du cisgenrisme et du capacitisme. Genre, Sexualité et Société, 19. https://doi.org/10.4000/gss.4218

Boulhaut, D. (2020). À l’écoute d’une sexualité non-déficiente. Cahiers de Gestalt-thérapie, 44, 95-100. https://doi.org/10.3917/cges.044.0095

Brasseur, P. & Nayak, P. (2018). Handicap, genre et sexualité. Actualité des recherches francophones. Genre, sexualité et société, 19. https://doi.org/10.4000/gss.4362

Brasseur, P. & Rodriguez, J. (2018). Les handicapés témoins, les valides experts : mobilisations en faveur du droit à la sexualité. Participations, 22, 139-158. https://doi.org/10.3917/parti.022.0139

Brown, M. & McCann, E. (2018). Sexuality issues and the voices of adults with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review of the literature. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 74, 124-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.01.009

Davies, D. (2020). Sex and Relationship Facilitation Project for People with Disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 18, 187-194. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026417815501

Di Nucci, E. (2011). Sexual rights and disability. Journal of Medical Ethics, 37, 158-161. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1931595

Dupras, A. (2013). Rénover la pratique de l’éducation à la sexualité des personnes ayant des incapacités intellectuelles. Perspectives étatiques, 25(2), 204‑218. https://doi.org/10.7202/1020830ar

Dupras, A. (2014). La sexualité des hommes en situation de handicap comme quête d’identité et de reconnaissance. VST - Vie sociale et traitements, 123(3), 44‑50. https://doi.org/10.3917/vst.123.0044

Fougeyrollas, P. (2016). Influence d’une conception sociale, interactionniste et situationnelle du handicap au sein d’un mécanisme de suivi de la mise en œuvre du droit à l’égalité : le modèle québécois. Revue française des affaires sociales, 4, 51‑61. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfas.164.0051

Grue, J. (2016). The problem with inspiration porn : a tentative definition and a provisional critique. Disability & Society, 31(6), 838‑849. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1205473

Masson, D. (2013). Femmes et handicap. Articles Hors Thème, 26(1), 111‑129. https://doi.org/10.7202/1016899ar

Liddiard, K. & Slater, J. (2017). ‘Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest’: Learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688674

Mercier, M. (2011, novembre). Représentations sociales et promotion de la santé affective, relationnelle et sexuelle des personnes en situation de handicap physique : outils et témoignages [Communication orale]. Actes de la journée de sensibilisation interrégionale : Vie affective et sexuelle des personnes en situation de handicap : Approches théoriques, repères et outils, Marseille, France. https://laressource.ca/images/ressources/vie_affective_et_sexuelle_des_personnes_en_situation_de_handicap.pdf

Pebdani, R. N. & Tashjian, A. (2021). An Analysis of the Attitudes of the General Public Towards the Sexuality of Individuals with Disabilities Through a Systematic Literature Review. Sexuality and Disability, 40(1), 21‑55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-021-09700-4

Thorneycroft, R. (2021). ‘Facefuck Me’ : exploring crip porn. Porn Studies, 1‑13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2021.1961603

Toft, A. (2020). Identity Management and Community Belonging : The Coming Out Careers of Young Disabled LGBT+ Persons. Sexuality & Culture, 24(6), 1893‑1912. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-020-09726-4

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