ABSTRACT
In just a few years, in Spain, the taboo surrounding the sexuality of disabled people has given way, and it is now the subject of public demands and discussions; has become a priority in independent living activism; and is reported in the mainstream media. Two documentaries provide snapshots of this process, generating radically different images and ideas about dis/abled sexuality: one treating it as a source of dissidence (Yes, We Fuck! – a queer-crip approach) and the other as a source of exclusion (I Want Sex Too – focusing on the medical/rehabilitative model). Analysis of these documentaries shows that ‘talking about sexuality’ is not subversive but may reinforce gender stereotypes, heteronormative structures, and ableist systems. A model of sexuality that denies body diversity, gender differences or human vulnerability is not an empowering one but, rather, an ableist way to normalise disabled people’s experiences.
