Disability Rights Center of New Hampshire

Edition: Spring 2020 Disability and Sexuality

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Brain Injury and Sexuality

By Beth A. Fisher, OTR/L This article contains sensitive material which may not be appropriate for all readers.“Normal sex isn’t a thing, so you don’t need to know what normal sex is.” —Kathryn Ellis, OTR/L and Certified Sexuality Counselor People with brain injury (along with other people with disabilities) are still sexual beings with sexual needs and desires....
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Five Things You Should Know Before You Take a Crip to Bed

By Galen Spiegler This article contains sensitive material which may not be appropriate for all readers. The sexuality of people who live with disabilities is exceptionally nuanced. In fact, there are entire books on the societal forces that push and pull on Crip sexuality. I am going to give you five...
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Knowledge is Power: Teaching Sexual Self-Advocacy

By Katherine McLaughlin, M.Ed. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, Special Tabulation, and the National Public Radio series, Abused and Betrayed, people with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) are seven times more likely to be sexual abused than those...
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The Marriage Paradigm: Finding Love. Losing Eligibility.

By Stephanie Patrick, Executive Director of Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire Over the past decade, marriage equality has become part of the common vernacular. Marriage is a choice for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations. The only people routinely left out of this conversation...