If sexuality is to be understood as one of the means of communication, it is safe to assume that it is going to continue to be the most difficult to reflect on and to interpret by the crips.

Children begin their process of identification mostly through physical contact with their environment and through confronting their bodies with other people. Whereas most non-handicapped persons enjoy the freedom of uninhibited exploration of other peoples' bodies and the appertaining acquisition of emotional competences, disabled children are largely faced with obstacles, prohibitions and what not. Isolation becomes the common denominator for their inequality with others. Consequently knowing and thus controlling one's body is rendered well nigh impossible in such an environment, although disabled persons are by far not the only ones who experience their bodies as a form of prison cell. It seems that such an environment makes every attempt to communicate a part of an alien dimension, where language becomes a social response of repressing a physical need, rather than a means of expressing it. We know that the media is constantly bombarding us with a precisely defined model of a perfect male and female and their social roles.

He has a youthful look no matter his age, he is successful, fit, and ambitious with a breath-taking, athletic figure. She is slim, her measures are ideal; she is dynamic and very sexy. On the other hand, a classic stereotype of a crip: he is on a wheelchair, bent and crooked, with a sad smile on his face. She has only one leg, she is flat as a board, buttoned up to her ears, with crutches in her hands