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Disabled individuals are frequently forced into one of two false categories: they are either infantilized and presumed to be completely asexual, or they are hyper-sexualized and fetishized. The radical, ordinary truth—that disabled people have vibrant sex lives, complex desires, and the exact same biological vulnerabilities to infectious diseases as anyone else—is systematically erased.
