ABSTRACT
Everyone agrees sexuality is an important part of life. But when I told people that my doctoral research focused on the sexual narratives of men with cerebral palsy, it was not uncommon for non-disabled people to ask, “Can they do that?” The people who asked this question were not unintelligent, but they had bought into the myth that disabled people are asexual. Unfortunately, the Disability Rights Movement and academic disability studies have been slow to politicize disability and sexuality. As Barbara Waxman, a disabled feminist activist and scholar, charged in the pages of the Disability Rag in 1991:
the disability rights movement has never addressed sexuality as a key political issue, though many of us find sexuality to be the area of our greatest oppression. We are more concerned with being loved and finding sexual fulfillment than in getting on the bus.
