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Finding Your Worth When Dating With a Disability
Finding Your Worth When Dating With a Disability Dating can be awkward enough as it is—but when you throw a disability into the mix, things can get more than a little complicated. When I became chronically ill at the age of 16, I didn’t fully grasp the ways that my disabilities would touch every aspect of my life, including dating.…
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Pain and Pleasure in Pregnant Disability
Pain and Pleasure in Pregnant Disability Pregnancy was a strange, surreal experience for me. As an autistic person with a history of body dysmorphia and disassociation, I hadn’t ever been on familiar terms with my own body. Pregnancy amplified this feeling many times over. My body felt unknown, unpredictable, and not my own. During my second pregnancy, I became disabled.…
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Nexplanon Removal – IT FINALLY HAPPENED!
After exchanging the typical British social niceties, ‘we wear masks now/the weather/sorry for the wait’, the doctor ran through the reasons for getting the implant out. Mine were: two stone weight gain, nightmares which increase in frequency and intensity before my period, hormonal acne, worsening of all current symptoms since the Nexplanon implant went in, and pain from the implantation…
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Putting the person back in personal care.
Over the years I’ve had a number of different treatments, some superficial – nails, eyebrows, and some cosmetic – Dermapen, and laser hair removal. However, I got rather ill in late 2017, and since then my beauty routine has changed out of necessity. I can’t to do a lot of the things are used to be able to and that…
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Why buttons are import, and why I focus on them in reviews.
If a toy has buttons, I will comment on them. Honestly, it’s going to be a key feature of my reviews nowadays because it has to be. Buttons are a massive accessibility issue within the sex toy industry, and not many people are getting it right.
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15 Practical Blow Job Tips for TMD, Part 2
Part 1 of the blow job tips and jaw pain was one of those posts that blew up unexpectedly, and since I’m still giving blow jobs, and my jaw is still a right bastard I have even more tips for you! Some are new, and some are an extension of the tips from the first part. Like last time, a…
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Designed for ‘the disabled’.
I’ve had an itch in the back of my mind for the past few months, and today it developed into a full blown scratch. The reason? I received an email a couple of months ago, and I’ve been unable to reply. I’ve been exhausted the past few months, and my tolerance for ‘teaching others about disability’ is low. So, here’s…
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Hearing loss in the bedroom
Something you may or may not know - I have hearing loss. As always with me, no one is sure why, and I'm still getting it investigated. I first noticed it late last year when everything else kicked off, and it seems to be accompanied by tinnitus, fluctuating sound independent of the hearing loss, vertigo and balance issues. Whilst I…
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“Good for Disabled People”
“Good for Disabled People” This gets a whole section and a soapbox. This section was originally within my review of the Rocks Off Ruby Glow toy, however as soon as it reached 800 words I knew I had to split it all up. 2,000 words is far too much to easily read in one sitting. So, I know the Ruby…
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How do you make sex toys accessible? 9 ways to make sex toys accessible, or at least get you thinking.
How do you make sex toys accessible? 9 ways to make sex toys accessible, or at least get you thinking. I’ve had a number of conversations about how to make sex toys accessible with various people, from bloggers to industry folks, and to my partner. The short story, there’s no one way to make every single sex toy on the market…
