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Wife is My Caregiver, No Sex

I am a 69-year-old male who has had a diagnosis of ALS for two years.  My wife is 65 and my primary caregiver. Her caregiving includes cooking meals, lifting me...

Kelly Perks-Bevington: Being A Disabled Girl On Tinder
It’s Kelly Perks-Bevington again… I wrote about sex and my disability for Hot Octopuss a few months ago and they’ve asked me back for a second piece. This time it’s...
Kelly Gordon: Best Accessible Sex Toys
Kelly Gordon’s personal mission is to bust the myth that disabled people are sexually limited. After trying as many products as she can get her hands on, she reveals her...
Accessible Sex Toys: How Can The Sex Toy Industry Be More Inclusive?
It’s Sexual Health Week 2019, and the focus is on relationships, sex and disability. At Hot Octopuss we believe sexual expression and pleasure is a basic human right, whatever your...
Leandra Vane on Orgasm Hunting With Nerve Damage
Leandra Vane, otherwise known as The Unlaced Librarian, wrote an excellent blog for us about disability and sex stigma a couple of years ago. Now she’s about to relaunch her...
Sex and Spinal Cord Injury: The Story of PULSE
We were catching up with Alix Fox’s brilliant ‘Close Encounters’ podcast recently when one story really stood out. Simon, one of Alix’s interviewees, talked about his experiences with spinal cord...
‘You guys get paralysed men!’ – an ex-soldier tries PULSE
One of the best things about working at Hot Octopuss is hearing from disabled customers who’ve found PULSE enhances their sex lives. We got this email from Jon, a former...
Disability & Sex Stigma
Leandra Vane is a sexuality writer and speaker – her groundbreaking blog The Unlaced Librarian covers body identity, relationship styles, sex and disability, kink and book reviews.
Hot Octopuss Celebrates International Day of People With Disabilities (#IDPWD)
At Hot Octopuss to celebrate International Day of People With Disabilities (#IDPWD), we are so excited to share the stories of disabled people and their journey with dating and relationships...
What do you do when your brain says yes to sex but your body says no?
When blogger Zec Richardson became disabled, his first concern wasn’t that he could no longer walk. It was: ‘What about sex?”. He shares his best tips for keeping the flame...
Andrew Gurza Tries PULSE
Disability campaigner Andrew Gurza writes breathtakingly honest and insightful pieces for Huffington Post and other platforms about his experience of being a queer disabled man navigating sex and relationships. When...
Masturbation Tips For Men With Mobility Issues
Mobility issues can make it difficult – or sometimes impossible – to masturbate independently. Yet as a society we’re rubbish at talking about it – sex and masturbation tips in...
Meet The Stigma-Busting Disabled Sex Bloggers
At Hot Octopuss we’ve been working closely with sex bloggers for over five years, and it’s been exciting in that time to watch more and more disabled sex bloggers, including...