ABSTRACT
The intersection of disability and sexuality remains a taboo topic. In our social world, people with intellectual disabilities are commonly de-sexualized and infantilized in ways that deny their sexual interests, desires, and rights. This social group experiences a series of disabling social barriers to pursuing and maintaining a romantic and sexual life. Drawing on interviews with 46 adults with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada, this chapter explores the intimate lives of disabled people, demonstrating how other social actors in their lives, such as family members and support care workers, may at times silence and constrain the sexualities of disabled people.
