Disabled people do have sex lives

We don’t need to exploit prostitutes to have sex – but we do need equality in society for the myths to be debunked

Image KK+

By Naomi Jacobs, The Telegraph.co.uk – The Telegraph picked a particularly shrewd moment to pry into disabled people’s care plans, seeing as we are currently are the disproportionate target of a cost-cutting campaign that has started with the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society. The article, reproduced later in the Mail and Express, claims to have found evidence of “taxpayers’ money” spent on sex services for disabled people. Continue reading

Bragging about your sex life threatens disability benefits

disabled sex kkWanting sex 1,440 times a day may turn heads with judges and government officials

With story from Social Security Disability Blog

“I am a writer/poet, artist, sculptor, musician, wood artist, wordsmith, businesswoman, mother, ex-wife, retired postal worker, driver, fragrance designer, student, photographer, jokester, painter, and furniture designer. …acts like she is 32, her love meter reads “inferno,” and she thinks about sex 1440 times a day” Social Security Disability Blog

It’s good for the disabled to have a positive self-image and sex life but some people who adjudicate Social Security might think she is faking.

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Do astronauts have sex in space?

Is that an allowed question in today’s world?

Yi So-yeon, South Korea's first female astronaut, suits up for a training session

Researching the story Endeavour brings gear to turn urine into drinking water made me realize that astronauts are just people. They wake up in the middle of the night and have to go, you know, to the bathroom.

So what about sex? Do astronauts have sex in space?

I asked around and no one would give me a straight answer. Then someone replied “The question is not if they have sex in space but who was the first astronaut to have sex in space?”

I ran with that one for awhile and someone said it had to be Tom Hanks, cause he was in Apollo 13.

NASA says “We don’t study human sexuality in space, and we don’t have any studies ongoing with that. We do ask our crews to be responsible and professional and to carry themselves in a way befitting of a U.S. astronaut. The long term health and safety of our crew is our primary concern.”

We’ll leave it there unless you have something to add.

Facebook and cellphones unmask cheaters

iPhone

Electronic gadgets create e-trails that make affairs dangerous

It sees you where you’ve been sleeping
She shows when you’re a rake
He’ll know if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out! (apologies to Santa Claus is Coming to Town)

Thinking about having an affair? Think again. Social media and gadgets can make affairs easier to start and maintain but as Tiger Woods found out, they leave electronic trails everywhere.

Tiger Woods famous voice mail to his Jamie Grubbs ended up on TMZ for all the world to hear. Tiger Woods confesses, voice mail out and Chinese video

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Is sex for the disabled the last taboo?

The sexual feelings of disabled people have long been ignored. Now the medical profession is debating the issue

photo by KK+

By Helen Croydon, TimesOnline

Dominic Webb, 45, fell from a multi-storey building 15 years ago, leaving him tetraplegic. He has no feeling or movement below his shoulders.

A year ago he was introduced to Sue Newsome, a tantric sex worker. By concentrating on the senses that Dominic does have, she has developed a sensual head massage. She uses her hands, breasts and hair, eye contact, incense sticks and music to give Dominic the nearest thing to a sexual experience that he can have.

“The touching, the embracing and the cuddles are things I don’t get from other people,” says Dominic. “I crave that. I have loving friends but English people don’t touch much.”

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Bathroom Adventures

A genre of its own, she posts a new one each day

A genre of its own, she posts a new one each day - pic is click-able - warning content may not be acceptable to all

Photographer has been posting one bathroom self-portrait a day for several years.

Personally I keep the camera out of my bathroom for good reason.

Flickr has an amazing variety of photographs.

From the profile

“Welcome to my Bathroom Adventures~

I began taking photos of myself in bathrooms over 6 years ago and it became a fun photo art project.

Recently, I started taking a photo a day here on Flickr on December 10th 2007 and have been posting each day since.

Some of these images are a little mundane while others are somewhat…Interesting! If anything they will be an honest look into my daily life in bathrooms around the world.

So Enjoy and -as always- Thank you for peeking!”

Pedophiles hide out in Catholic Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Pentecostals

Ex-bishop Raymond Lahey, caught with child porn on multile computers was protected by Church

RC Bishop Raymond Lahey, caught with child porn on multiple computers was protected by Church

Pedophiles are attracted to professions and volunteer in places where child victims are plentiful

I sick at heart over the revelations that revered leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are either pedophiles or harboring them. But Bishop Lahey is the tip of the iceberg on this story. Pedophiles are being discovered among other religious leaders as well.

Bishop Lahey’s computer had hundreds of child porn images, police allege says the Globe and Mail. Settlements with abused boys has almost bankrupted Catholic diocese in Nova Scotia, Boston and all over North America.

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Sins Invalid: unashamed look at sex, beauty and disability

Sins Invalid photo: David Steinberg

We are sexual creatures. The show and photographs of David Steinberg illustrate the beauty of human sexuality is naturally part of the lives of those with
disabilities.

From San Francisco Chronicle photographs and content Erotic By Nature: David Steinberg

Warning – this article and the links contain explicit sexual content.

Who is sexy? Who is sexual? Who is sexually desirable? Who is sexually vibrant?

Are the people that society designates “beautiful” really sexier or more sexual than the people who get labeled “plain”?

David Steinberg, photographer

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Sex is better with talk

Part 2 of Disabled sex What are they able to teach the rest of us about sexual fulfillment?

By Jill Clark, Timesonline, London, UK,

Last episode Disabled couples know more about sex

Andy and Michelle were at training college when they met in 2003. Andy, 47, had separated from his wife after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident and being confined to a wheelchair. He needed someone to talk to, and she enjoyed listening. When Michelle’s marriage failed, their friendship led to romance.

Having learned from the mistakes of their first marriages, the couple, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, attribute the success of their relationship to good communication. “We tell each other everything,” says Andy, who took up sailing after his accident and now competes nationally. “We say ‘I love you’ several times a day.”  Continue reading