‘Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest’: Learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality

• Published in: Sexualities Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 319 - 333
• Main Authors: Liddiard, Kirsty, Slater, Tig
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2018; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adults; Disability; Embodiment; Females; Human body; Neoliberalism; People with disabilities; Physical disabilities; Sexuality; Sexualization; Youth; containment; sexuality; adult; disability; youth; leaky

In this article, the authors (re)conceptualize containment in the context of youth, gender, disability, crip sex/uality and pleasure. The article begins by exploring eugenic histories of containment and traces the ways in which the anomalous embodiment of disabled people remains vigorously policed w...