ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case study about the Netherlands. It analyses laws, policies and regulations that relate to issues around disability, sexuality and sexual facilitation. The chapter explores the work of sexual support providers, namely sex care organisations, and discusses among relevant stakeholders in the disability movement and among sexual rights organisations on current issues with access and scope of sexual support. It presents the current disability policy, in which sexuality is largely absent. The chapter discusses civil society organisations’ work on sexuality and disability. In the Netherlands, then, disabled people’s policy-based sexual citizenship is largely missing, while practice-based sexual citizenship depends on locality and scope of available services. In January 2016 during the final discussions leading up to the ratification of the Convention, the parliamentarian Vera Bergkamp submitted a motion about ‘breaking the taboo around perception of the sexuality of people with disabilities’.
