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Connecting disabled men & women to responsible sex workers, therapists, & teachers

What we have got is a longstanding policy based around the principles of human rights that people with disabilities have the same rights as anyone else in the community and are entitled to be assisted to exercise those rights. Our 'Disability Services, Personal Relationship and Sexuality Guidelines' developed in 2001, include a section 'Access to a sex worker'. We have organised trips to Hobart Brothels.
Tasmania's Department of Health

TLC featured in The Guardian

26 September 2009

Following a feature in G2 yesterday, where Julie Bindel criticised TLC, I sent and online comment and a letter to the newspaper. This letter has been published almost in its entirety:

"How sweet of Julie Bindel to mention the TLC Trust in The Guardian, 25
September 2009, describing us as  "a pro-sex industry campaigning
organisation". In actual fact, we are simply a website
TLC-Trust.org.uk which puts disabled men and women in touch with
responsible sex workers, therapists and teachers. The site provides a
service to make phone calls to book appointments on behalf of disabled
people with speech impairments who cannot use the phone, and on behalf
of their care workers who are banned by their employers from making
such calls.

Yes, big charities, local councils and social services providing
"homes" for disabled people, on one hand sing of their equality
policies that empower their residents to make informed choices about
how they live their lives and then block them from finding sexual
outlets. They know that some disabled people don't have the strength
or body movement to masturbate, so what do they think they are going
to do when they get horny?

The TLC-Trust.org.uk website has been commended around the world -
from Annie Sprinkle to AC Grayling. It is run by volunteers, Sex
workers register for free, in fact no charges are made to anyone.

On 13th November, the Royal Society of Medicine will be running a
conference on sex and disability which will include discussions on sex
work, disability and the law. Delegates will have the chance to see a
tantric sex worker making love to the head of a quadiplegic man who
has no feeling below the head, and cannot reach up to touch his head.
They will see a deafblind man enjoying a striptease, using finger
language interpretation. These are performances by TLC participants.

Dr Tuppy Owens
 TLC-Trust.org.uk"

See more on my blog http://tuppy-outsidersorguk.blogspot.com/

Thanks to everybody who has helped create this great site and let's hope the stuggles suffered by the sex workers and our disabled supporters will soon be over. 

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