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Pleasure and Consent
Women with Disabilities Victoria’s Victorian Women’s Health Program, in collaboration with the Gender and Disability Workforce Development Program, produced a suite of resources focused on increasing access to pleasure and consent in health promotion and violence prevention with women and gender diverse people with disabilities.
The project intends to build the capacity of workforces across the healthcare and gender-based violence prevention systems in Victoria.
The project’s resources aim to:
Promote strength-based practices that advance pleasure and sexual autonomy for women and gender diverse people with disabilities.
Support practitioners and sexual health professionals to model consent and decision-making with women and gender diverse people with disabilities around contraception, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and relationships using lived experience.
Promote the lived experience of women and gender diverse people with disabilities in the prevention of sexual violence through resources that challenge norms about sexuality, violence, and promote sexual wellbeing.
Resources
Pleasure and Consent for Women and Gender Diverse People with Disabilities: A project background paper that provides a policy analysis, literature review, advocacy positioning, and an overview of best practices and evidence-based approaches.
Getting Into It – A video series about better sexual pleasure and consent for women and gender diverse people with disabilities. The four videos provide insights into the lived experience of women and gender diverse people with disabilities, highlighting common barriers to sexual and reproductive health.
Challenging stigma around pleasure
This video is about how pleasure improves health outcomes. WDV Experts, staff and partners talk about why practitioners need to build their confidence to talk about sexual pleasure with women and gender diverse people with disabilities.
Pleasure and empowerment
This video is about the empowering nature of sexual pleasure as it related to health, consent, and preventing violence against women and gender diverse people with disabilities.
Curious conversations about pleasure and consent
This video explains the difference that having conversations with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) professionals about pleasure and consent can have for women and gender diverse people with disabilities. WDV Experts, staff and partners discuss examples of what some promising practices look like.
Building trust and respect
This last video can support sexual and reproductive health professionals to build trust and respect when working with women and gender diverse people with disabilities. It discusses trauma-informed care, and how putting together all the concepts in this video series together as well as other practices in WDV resources in conversation with members of the disability community to make sure that sexual pleasure and consent is discussed in a respectful way.
