What is it about?

The paper explains how, despite best intentions, disabled intimacy and sexuality is still misrepresented in popular culture. I argue that popular representation naturalizes (i. e. normalizes) people with disabilities in their sexual contexs.

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Why is it important?

The papers points to the need of giving up '"aesthetic prostheses" for representing people with disabilities for revising the popular representation of disabled intimacy.

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This paper challenges some views on the progressiveness of popular representation of people with disabilities, showing that despite the proliferation of disabled intimacies in mainstream media, their image if far from progressive and often lacks authenticity.

Anna Malinowska

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This page is a summary of: Lost in representation: Disabled sex and the aesthetics of the ‘norm’, Sexualities, April 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1363460716688678.
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