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A classic Guardian letter today

  • 26-09-2009 7:40pm
    #1
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭


    On 13 November, the Royal Society of Medicine will be running a conference on sex and disability which will include discussions on sex work, disability and the law. Delegates will have the chance to see a tantric sex worker making love to the head of a quadriplegic man who has no feeling below the head, and cannot reach up to touch his head. They will see a deaf-blind man enjoying a striptease, using finger language interpretation. These are performances by TLC participants.

    Dr Tuppy Owens

    TLC-Trust.org.uk

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/26/sex-workers-disability

    Sometimes they really do descend into self-parody.


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  • #2
    Meeja Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Meeja Ireland


    latenia wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/26/sex-workers-disability

    Sometimes they really do descend into self-parody.

    That's wonderful. Tuppy Owens seems like a good egg (it's hard not to get all Wodehouse when faced with such a name), and anyone who makes life fuller or richer for people with disabilities should be applauded. Her website for Outsiders also includes one of the cuter endorsements I've seen:

    Barry Humpries

    "Let's face it, Outsiders is an adorable emotional safety net for the Madges of this world."

    Good find, OP.


  • #3
    ttm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭ttm


    Didn't believe anyone could be called Tuppy? But did a google search and found this she is Chair of the Sexual Freedom Coalition board, and the founder and a judge for The Erotic Awards. So are you supprised at this letter??



  • #4
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    How the hell do you make love to someones head?


  • #5
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    If only they worked out a way of shoehorning a 35mm film cannister in there...


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