Beautiful Story. Too bad it had to end so soon
--DKH
10/30 |
I liked it...good story, well written. This was my first reading on this type of fetish. Very interesting...
--B
03/21 |
The feedback from JS on 10/23......well s/he has a point.
--crf
12/23 |
Outstanding story!!
--crf
12/23 |
When I was a student at San Diego State in the late 60s I went out with a coed who had a prosthetic arm. She was very attractive and we had great times, including hot sex. She danced at a topless bar and to see her almost naked, in heels, was a real turn on. Sometimes a disability can become a fetish with some men as a mens magazine featured letters on sex with women with prosthetic legs and arms to the point of ad nauseum. Sure, "Coming Home" in 1978 with Voight and Fonda showed people that sex is not just for beautiful young adults with great bodies. I have seen very pretty women in wheelchairs, as how often we see handsome men who are disabled. I saw many German men in their 40s minus arms and legs in the early 60s when I was a GI near Frankfurt. WWII vets who came home alive. Many were very goodlooking, with pretty wives and girlfriends.
--RTH
11/14 |
i wanna know what happend please continue the story
--JS
10/23 |
Also, I'm not sure what retro-heavy metal is! But I see your point about not ghetto-izing material on disability. Make sure to look at the "special issue" web page for links to other pieces Nerve has published on the subject, including Jennifer Gilmore on sex after an ileotompy and amputee Nomy Lamm's perspective on BEING fetishized.
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10/23 |
Actually, we *are* featuring non-fetish stories: Check out Lisa Carver's Q&A's with four disabled men and women and tomorrow's essay by a woman with Tourettes Syndrome.
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10/23 |
Ok. I am a pretty woman (in my humble opinion) with a limp, and I have a very open mind and a healthy sexual appittite. I have known about men (and I guess there are like 2 women) who have this fittish about disabilities for some time. For some reason there are a lot of men who are really into prothetics imparticular. I still don't exactly know how I feel about. In some way it is somewhat enjoyable to have the part of you that causes people to think that you are asexual to be found so erotic. It must be how over-wieght people feel about chubby-chasers. However, no one wants only one part of them to be a simple fitish. It is quite the same as not seeing a disabled person as a real whole person- only as a disability. This is just how people who see us as asexual think of us too. Like the fat-lady at the freak show, some may be horrified, some may be titlated, but all are just seeing a performer in a freak show, not a woman. So, here we are back at the drawing board even if there are a few hard-ons thrown-in around it. I am glad that "John & Miranda" was not about John being a night-in-shining-armour as all of the other stories I've read of this nature have been. I welcomed the rawness and honesty of the story and I even loved the sexual images mixed with disability. However, I think "NERVE" has failed if they think they have done people with disabilities justice with the writings they have put out this month. A story about two people in a real relationship, where one has a disability (along with some yummy sexualimages), would have been much more fitting. Imagine if "NERVE" had been doing stories about how it feels to be Asian American and they had some story written from some White guys point of view about having a thing for his Asian prostitute. It's not that I am offened by this story or even the fitish; it just doesn't express an ounce of the the sexual disabled experience. How about having the story be from a disabled person's point of view. Novel, huh? I could provide such stories, but I am sure after this month everyone will have heard enough of us and will want stories about the irony of the retro-heavy metal. As much as I love retro-metal, I'll once again be invisable.
--JS
10/23 |
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