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In this issue: The Lisa Files by Lisa Carver
Lisa asks nosy questions about the sex lives of four people with disabilities.
John and Miranda by George Murray
"Her ass was nicely framed in the thong. Her leg ended just below her crotch."
The Skin I'm In by Amy Wilensky
She had something the other girls didn't: Tourettes.
After Diagnosis by David Dodd Lee
"it moves like a hand covering my wife's eyes"
In the Realm of the Senses by Lucy Grealy
At the disability-friendly Sex Maniacs' Ball, the author learns about liberty — but not the way she expected.
Sex on Wheels by Brenda Prager
A disability activist invites the photographer into his bedroom, and gives her an unsentimental education.
Related articles from the archives:
You Kindly by Sharon Olds
"Because I felt too weak to move / you kindly moved for me"
National Health by Alicia Erian
"He's touching you like a doctor, like he has all rights to your body as long as his intentions are medical."
Fan Club by Nomy Lamm
An amputee gets to know her fetishists.
The Wedding of Tom to Tom by Keith Banner
"I could hear the retarded people, all five of them, snoring and tossing and turning. Then I heard real intense moans coming out of the back bedroom."
Uninhibited by Andrew Vahldieck
Once I walked erect, now I roll: on sexuality and quadriplegia.
Turned Inside Out by Jennifer Gilmore
Sex after an ileostomy.
Autobiography of A Body by Lucy Grealy
The author of Autobiography of a Face becomes a seductress to forget the face she hates.
My New Penis by John Blum
For all his teenage years, the author was incapable of having an erection. Then he got bionic.
To Have and Have Not by Michael Moore
After testicular cancer, the author is haunted by his missing part.
Cezanne's Pear by Ingrid Schorr
Show and tell: unveiling after breast cancer.
Healing by Romain Slocombe
The Red Cross meets red light.
In the Snowy Kingdom by Matthew Sharpe
"It's high summer midnight, someone has parked this car, and we're up against it, struggling; a Biblical struggle, like Jacob wrestling the angel God sent to him on a mountain."
©2001 Nerve.com
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