A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability

by A. Andrews, A. Andrews (Illustrator)

Overview

A quick, easy, and educational comic book guide that will help change the way we talk about sex and sexuality for all bodies.

"This guide can help disabled people (and their partners) on their journey toward self-love, better communication, and confidence." –– Alice Wong, Founder and Director, Disability Visibility Project

All different kinds of bods want to connect with other bods, but lots of them get left out of the conversation when it comes to S-E-X. As explained by disabled cartoonist A. Andrews, this easy-to-read guide covers the basics of disability sexuality, common myths about disabled bodies, communication tips, and practical suggestions for having the best sexual experience possible. Whether you yourself are disabled, you love someone who is, or you just want to know more, consider this your handy starter kit to understanding disability sexuality, and your path to achieving accessible (and fulfilling) sex.

Part of the bestselling and critically acclaimed A Quick & Easy Guide series from Limerence Press, an imprint of Oni Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620106945
Publisher:	Oni Press
Publication date:	06/23/2020
Series:	Quick & Easy Guides
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	1,082,184
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

A. Andrews is a queer and disabled cartoonist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a near decade stay in New York City. They grew up in the Pacific Northwest sketching in hospitals, and are the creator of the Autostraddle webcomic Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa! When they’re not drawing their guts out, they are hanging out with their dog, George, and drinking too many coffees.

A. Andrews is a queer and disabled cartoonist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a near decade stay in New York City. They grew up in the Pacific Northwest sketching in hospitals, and are the creator of the Autostraddle webcomic Oh, Hey! It’s Alyssa! When they’re not drawing their guts out, they are hanging out with their dog, George, and drinking too many coffees.

Editorial Reviews

03/16/2020

Andrews, a web cartoonist and “totally complete, incomplete paraplegic,” makes their print debut with this upbeat and informative graphic guidebook. Designed to assist both disabled persons and their partners, the guide, with Andrews as its narrator, coaches readers through basic and intermediate tips on improving sex lives for those with disabilities, conveyed invitingly through bright cartoons reminiscent of Lane Smith’s, which depict a wealth of different and non-normative body types. Though the spatial limitations and aims of the “quick and easy” structure inevitably lead to oversimplifications (the half-page primer on gender and sexuality spectra theory, for instance), Andrews dives in with a frank and enthusiastic tone (“let’s talk spasticity!) and wields the slim page count efficiently with canny, appropriately explicit visuals, such as when laying out a variety of ways to use furniture to make sex more physically comfortable. Sections on handling incontinence during intercourse and the need for communication with personal care attendants and asides educating nondisabled readers on ableist microaggressions are particularly well-done—though Andrews lingers longer than needed on well-trodden topics like communication and sex toys. This is a valuable resource for readers seeking to make pleasure accessible. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"A great introduction to basic information many disabled people can use. With humor, real talk, and lovely illustrations featuring all kinds of bodies, this guide can help disabled people (and their partners) on their journey toward self-love, better communication, and confidence."

Alice Wong

05/01/2020

DEBUT Sex is one of the defining experiencing of human life that nurtures and enriches the soul. So why shouldn't those with disabilities get in on all that loving? Debut cartoonist Andrews brings his personal experience to this very discussion, drawing his own persona as the narrator of this slim guide discussing questions about enjoying sex as a disabled person. Zeroing in on core emotional issues, he dispels myths about disabled bodies, an addresses the need for communication, dealing with sexual rejection based on one's disability, preparing for sex with comfort and ease in mind, considering thoughtful positions desired for pleasure, and the use of toys. VERDICT This fun and informative guide, with clean, expressive art, delivers body positivity messages and nonmedical advice with a sense of mischievous, contagious fun. Rather than dwell on physical restrictions, the central thrust is showing what can be done, making sex with disability a experience worth pursuing.—Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Libs., Atlanta

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