Ultimate Guide to Sex & Disability

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability Reissue -For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness
The only complete, all-inclusive sex guide for everyone living with a disability- now with an updated resource list

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is the first complete sex guide for people who live with disabilities, pain, illness, or chronic conditions. Useful for absolutely everyone, regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation, the book addresses a wide range of disabilities ? from chronic fatigue, back pain, and asthma to spinal cord injury, hearing and visual impairment, multiple sclerosis, and more. Expertly written by a medical doctor, a sex educator, and a disability activist,

The Ultimate Guide provides readers with encouragement, support, and all the information they need to create a sex life that works for them.

The authors cover all aspects of sex and disability, including;
*Building a positive sexual self-image;
*Positions to minimize stress and maximize pleasure;
*Dealing with fatigue or pain during sex;
*Finding partners and talking with partners about sex and disability;
*Adapting sex toys;
... and more. Can you use a condom with a catheter? How do you have intercourse in a wheelchair? This detailed guide answers these questions and others that the nondisabled can't imagine....[The book's] overall message: there is no 'right way' to have sex. Individuals need to discover what 'sex' is for them and give themselves permission to consider anything as a sexual experience.?Martha Cornog, Library Journal

This book provides accurate information on many aspects of sexuality and disability, as well as a comprehensive resource list. More importantly, it brings people with disabilities onto the radar screen.?Washington Blade

[The authors] give the goods, from position issues to looking for partners, dealing with fatigue and pain, sexual self-image, kinky dilemmas, and piles of resources. Should be on every sex ed reference shelf. ?Susie Bright

MIRIAM KAUFMAN, M.D., is the author of Easy for You to Say: Q&A's for Teens Living with Chronic Illness or Disability. She has appeared on Oprah! and in the New York Times and Time magazine. CORY SILVERBERG is a founder of Come As You Are, an education-based sex store. He is the sexuality editor of About.com and has conducted workshops on sex and disability across North America. FRAN ODETTE is a disability activist who speaks on women's health, body image, sexual health, and disability.

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