What is the reaction of people to people with disabilities in public showing affection?
Oh, I think before I frightened people with disabilities showing affection because it’s about desire and I know if you go show affection in public like I have, people look at you, and yet it’s okay for them. It’s a whole global thing that goes deeper than just showing affection. It’s always disabilities are supposed to be out of sight and not in the public, and people really find that normalisation – although we’ve been doing it for 20 or 30 years – still really confronting. It’s different. They see anything as different as frightening. In your document that you wrote for me, you said that the general public found people with disabilities having sex perverted. Can you explain that? Oh, I think society if you take society in general as able-bodied people, they think that when people with disabilities – the thought of them actually having sex – is really disconcerting and they can’t get their head around that and yeah they just can’t get with the picture, although it’s people with disabi
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