Personally, I think that sex and disability is an interesting topic because I never curious about the sexual aspect of the disabled people until this section of the class. Growing up, I had never thought that disabled people would be interested in sexual relationship, but that is the limit of my surrounding. Probably how the community I grow up is difficult from how the American society treat their disabled people. From where I grow up, a refugee camp, the disabled people were not treated different from the disabled people in the United States. For example, sometimes, people even made joke out of them. They had a much lesser chance of getting a partner, and they were restricted to go elsewhere. However, from watching many documentary in class,
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While I was searching for a disabled speaker, I came across Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, who is a disabled doctor and she works with disabled patient. She made a point that the media in this society ignores that fact that disabled people have that same emotional needs, and desires as everyone else (Sheypuk, 2015). Basically, the message from the media is that the disabled people’s bodies are distorted so they are not fit in the media. I agree with the point she made here because the majority of television commercial shows healthy and good-looking people only. For example, the Victoria Secrets models and Playboys models are well in shape, which symbolize that they are the ideal type to have sex with. In this case, the disabled people are at the other end of the spectrum. The media has shape our minds to a different direction about the ideal body type for …show more content…
I did know that this course would take me to this direction, where I encounter with people who are struggle with their sex lives. Because we, as the able people, tend to judge people by their physical appearance, we are ignoring the disabled people. They are capable of having sex, but with their restrict bodies, we view them as incapable of having sex and not romantic beings. The media is an influential factors that direct our mind to value the models’ bodies at the ideal shape to have sex with. I dislike to imagine that we have a hierarchy of which body shape is best to have sex with, but it seems that this imagination is becoming truer as the more disabled people come out and talked about their
While I was searching for a disabled speaker, I came across Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, who is a disabled doctor and she works with disabled patient. She made a point that the media in this society ignores that fact that disabled people have that same emotional needs, and desires as everyone else (Sheypuk, 2015). Basically, the message from the media is that the disabled people’s bodies are distorted so they are not fit in the media. I agree with the point she made here because the majority of television commercial shows healthy and good-looking people only. For example, the Victoria Secrets models and Playboys models are well in shape, which symbolize that they are the ideal type to have sex with. In this case, the disabled people are at the other end of the spectrum. The media has shape our minds to a different direction about the ideal body type for …show more content…
I did know that this course would take me to this direction, where I encounter with people who are struggle with their sex lives. Because we, as the able people, tend to judge people by their physical appearance, we are ignoring the disabled people. They are capable of having sex, but with their restrict bodies, we view them as incapable of having sex and not romantic beings. The media is an influential factors that direct our mind to value the models’ bodies at the ideal shape to have sex with. I dislike to imagine that we have a hierarchy of which body shape is best to have sex with, but it seems that this imagination is becoming truer as the more disabled people come out and talked about their