ABSTRACT
Popular media has a long history of representing disabled bodies as asexual – neither sexually desiring nor desirable. Throughout popular culture, disabled characters have operated as a defining other and have either been coded as monsters, who are often psychotic because of their disability, or else have occupied the position of the politics of pity and reminded the viewer of the need for compassion for those who are less fortunate (see Zola, 1985; Nelson, 1994; Norden, 1994; Whittington-Walsh, 2002).
