Sexual imagery of physically disabled women: Erotic? perverse? sexist?

Sexuality and Disability

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-282

  Waxman Fiduccia, Barbara Faye ^a  

^a Ctr Women Plcy Studs Satellite O   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; EROTISM; HUMAN; IMAGERY; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL DEVIATION;

EID: 0343114295     PISSN: 01461044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022189224533     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. This is an initial think piece by the author, to lay out her thinking about the topic, and to pose questions for further analysis and investigation.
2. Fine, M. and Asch, A. (Eds.), Women With Disabilities: Essays In Psychology, Culture, and Politics, Philadelphia Pa: Temple University Press, 1988, Pp. 29-30.
3. Gill C. J., Cultivating Common Ground: Women With Disabilities Health Pac Bulletin, Vol. 22, Number 4, Winter 1992.
4. See reference 1.
5. Ability Magazine, no date, Pg. 25.
6. This aesthetic is a reflection of the mythic belief of genetic supremacy even in light of current control of the human genome. Please see Newsweek Magazine June 3, 1996 cover article entitled, "The Biology of Beauty: What Science has discovered About Sex Appeal."
7. Ability Magazine, no date, Pg. 25.
8. Ibid., page 25.
9. Ibid., p. 23.
10. http://xxx.shots.com/~babyoil/freakage.html.
11. Waxman B. Up Against Eugenics: Disabled Women's Challenge To Receive Reproductive Health Services. Sexuality And Disability. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1994, Pp. 155-172.
12. The clinical term is "ameliotatists." It's a collective name for people of both genders and all sexual orientations who are attracted to amputees, as well as paraplegics and quadriplegics with a variety of clinical diagnoses, and use wheelchairs, and wear braces and casts. Most devotees are white males who are attracted to "single-leg above the knee amputee" women. A related subgroup are called "wannabees." These are non-disabled people who desire to be physically disabled, and often purchase and use mobility aids. More information and additional links to similar sites can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.drgnwrks.simplenet.com/ amputee/drgnwrks.htm.
13. http://www.cdprod.com/.
14. http://www.neosoft.com/~ascot/asinfo.html.
15. Los Angeles Times, Section E, Page 1, March 31, 1997.
16. New Mobility Magazine, Miramar Communications, Malibu, California, March 1997.