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Produced by Sex TV, a Candian company, Willing and Able: Love, Sex and Disability features a dozen or so articulate, intelligent people with physical disabilities from the US, Canada and Australia, all of whom have some angry and occasionally confronting words for the rest of us, berating us for burdening them with crushing stereotypes and ignoring their humanity because we can't get past their socially defined ugliness. The result is that sex and disability is a taboo topic. American Anne Finger, disabled from birth, puts it succintly: "I was like this Barbie doll with nothing down there."

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Melburinan Katie Ball... married, had children and ran a website on which she proudly displayed sexually explicit photographs of herself: "porn with a political edge", she calls it. But she still has to plough through the stereotypes, such as being asked how she had children ("Well, d'oh, I had sex") and her husband is treated as a saint for shouldering such a burden ("Where does that leave me?" asks Ball).

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Have any of you heard anything about it? I'm not sure when it was made.

I'll definately be watching.
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
Oh wow, that does sound interesting!
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
No, I haven't heard of this at all - I hope it shows up in Chicago sometime.

Sounds like it's worth watching.
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
Imogen,

Two more things...

I forgot to mention that I know Anne Finger. She's the current president of the Society for Disability Studies. I wonder who else in the film I might know.

Is there a link for those excerpts you posted?
 

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Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
 
No, unfortunately - the article was in a liftout from the Weekend Australian. (The 'Review' section to be more precise).

I have an email address for the section, but that's about it.
 

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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
 
http://www.enhancetv.com.au/htm/action.lasso?-datab ase=Archive&-layout=web_tv&-search&-response=tv.lasso&-recordID=12730177
Edit: An Australian site giving a quick overview of the documentary.

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-716.html
Edit: Dummies' Guide to the Subject at hand.

http://www.blindcanadians.ca/publications/index.php?id=566
Edit: This is a website for Blind Canadians and their notation on the subject of the documentary.

-Trevor

Edit: Most of the articles I've found are quick blurbs, but I couldn't find a link to the production house or any formal reference.

On the topic, I did find a Dummies' Guide on the subject.

[ April 02, 2005, 08:20 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
 

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Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
 
Aren't you the clever poppet.

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Though I do find "Sex and disabilities for Dummies" slightly incongrous. (And the advice slightly inane.)
 

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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
 
I'm constantly amazed at what they will produce a "Dummies" book for - up to and including Dungeons & Dragons.

Given the sensitive subject matter at hand, I think the title is a little tacky but I'm just reporting what I found.

-Trevor
 

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Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
 
You did good.

Following the Canadian link, it looks like it has already screened in Canada - on Citytv, in February.
 

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Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
 
Yes, I saw it then.
 

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