Transcending the Counter-Normative: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Persons with Disability

Persons with disability continually confront erroneous and often stigmatizing assumptions – about their life goals and desires, ability to live productively within communities, and participation in activities of daily life. Nowhere are such false societal views more entrenched than around the multitudinous issues raised by sexuality and reproductive health. The notion that a woman with disability, for example, would seek pregnancy and motherhood defies long-held social norms. Equally counter-normative is the desire of persons with disability to achieve sexual intimacy, pleasure, and fulfillment.

Source: Disability and Health Journal - April 5, 2017 Category: Disability Authors: Lisa I. Iezzoni, Monika Mitra Source Type: research