Beyond the binary: Rethinking the social model of disabled sexuality

While the social model of disabled sexuality offers a fundamental and vitally important critique of ableist assumptions concerning disabled people's sexuality, it remains limited. This article offers a brief history and critical overview of the most recent scholarship emerging out of the social model of disabled sexuality; argues that the new scholarship, which is meant largely to challenge dominant ableist assumptions concerning disabled people's sexuality, actually serves to reinforce the heterosexual matrix; and provides both theoretical and practical means of transforming the future landscape of (dis/abled) human sexualities.