Disabled sexuality: Toward rights and recognition

Looking back at the development of disability sexuality, studies, there is a need for a social model of disabled sexuality. However, this should be se nsitive to difference, including the impact of impairment. Disability sexua lity studies necessarily challenge notions of sexual normality. There is a danger in overstating the importance of sex, as opposed to friendship and i ntimacy. Honneth's work on relations of recognition may offer a way to conc eptualist sexuality issues within the disability rights agenda.