It had been argued that Australia should make provisions for people with disabilities to access government-funded sex therapy, sexual education and sexual services.

Examples of services to be offered to Australians with disabilities

In 2013, there have been calls for sexual assistance to be included in the
lists of services offered to Australians with a disability (Yau, 2013: 1).

Pepperdine University

Disabled and sexual-embodied subjectivities are much more than ‘asexual’ or ‘hypersexual’ pathological constructions. A greater attention to the
phenomenology of sexual embodiment, pleasure, desire, and the diverse meanings of
intimacy and the erotic can make significant contributions to social and scholarly analyses of disability and sexuality.

Disability and sexuality: Desires and pleasures

Loeser, C., Pini, B., & Crowley, V. (2018). Disability and sexuality: Desires and pleasures. Sexualities, 21(3), 255–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688682


National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in
Australia 

There is a presumed assumption that people with disabilities are always already asexual – an assumption that further relies on impressions of disabled people as inevitably undesiring and undesirable.

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