Hi
Well I would say yes, especially for women with disabilities. The very
process of intenalisation is aimed at desexualizing people who do not fit
the cultural mode of physically attractive bodies. Therefore it is very
easy for societies to dismiss people who do not fit the mold. To
conceptualise disabled as sexual demands that various limitations that they
have be given space in the psyche of the so called normal discourses. When
this is not feasible, the easiest way is to decontextualise them.
>From my own experience I can tell you that I as a woman with orthopaedic
impairment have every other role available to me except the one which
involves sexuality. So much so that while other women in the university
were experiencing problems such as eve teasing, I escaped because of my
disability. No one whistled at me.
More later
Anita
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