Comedian and disability advocate Madeleine Stewart is done with awkward questions from strangers. So, she’s asking other disabled people and their partners to spill the tea on sex.

In Intimate Access, Maddie sits down with disabled Australians and their partners to get real about love, lust, intimacy, and everything in between.
From accessible sex toys and NDIS policy, to the logistics of sex and the complicated role of intimacy and touch when support workers are part of your daily life, this is the conversation about disability and desire that Australia needs to have.
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00:00 Comedian Madeleine Stewart ‘what’s the big deal with disabled sex?’
02:07 Introducing burlesque performer Jacqueline Tedmanson (Diana Divine)
04:07 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, sexuality, and self-expression
06:21 Disability activist and visual artist Kyle Montgomery
09:21 Kyle on recovery, desire, dating and sex as a wheelchair user
11:51 Artist, playwright, and academic Dr Debra Keenahan and photographer Robert Brindley on love and attraction
15:39 Understanding intimacy, sex, and sexual expression
15:54 Polyamory, relationships and dating as a person with disability
18:53 Kyle Montgomery on intimacy, touch, and life as a person with quadriplegia
22:33 Kyle’s accessible sex aids and thoughts on sex work
26:02 Pregnancy, family, and future hopes
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