Disability porn : the fetishisation and liberation of disabled sex

Abstract: Set against dominant ableist discourses of sexuality, engaging in sex in the face of physical disabilities seems not only impossible but also highly improbable. Long-standing myths and discriminatory stereotypes around the sexuality of people with disabilities are commonplace, in part due to the sheer unknowns about the sexual lives and practises of people with disabilities. In recent years, members of the disabled community have emerged professing to thriving sex lives, and one avenue that provides evidence of not only the existence of disabled sexuality but also the multitude of possibilities within disabled sexuality is in the burgeoning genre of disability pornography. While disability and sex merge in pornography, there is limited interchange in the scholarship on disabled sexuality and pornography. In this chapter, I aim to address this privation by examining the intersection of pornography and disabled sexuality. I conclude that disability pornography not only has positive spinoffs, such as enfranchisement of disabled sex, but also negative upshots, which include the fetishisation of disabled sexuality..