Asexuality in disability narratives
Abstract
This essay explores normative regulations of disabled people’s sexuality and its relationship with asexuality through narratives of disabled individuals. While asexuality has been persistently criticized as a damaging myth imposed on disabled people, individuals with disabilities who do not identify as sexual highlight the inseparable intersection between normality and sexuality. Disabled and asexual identity and its narratives reveal that asexuality is an embodiment neither to be eliminated, nor to be cured, and is a way of living that may or may not change. Claims for the sexual rights of desexualized minority groups mistakenly target asexuality and endorse a universal and persistent presence of sexual desire. The structurally and socially enforced asexuality and desexualization are distinguished from an asexual embodiment and perspective disidentifying oneself from sexuality.
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Eunjung Kim (2011). Asexuality in disability narratives. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460711406463
@article{eunjung2011asexuality,
title = {Asexuality in disability narratives},
author = {Kim, Eunjung},
year = {2011},
journal = {Sexualities},
doi = {10.1177/1363460711406463}
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