Betty,
Its six of one, half dozen of the other. Renee


>From: Betty Alfred <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
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>Subject: Re: Law & Order SVU/Criminal PWD's
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:56:24 EST
>
>In a message dated 02/12/2000 7:36:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< I believe this is another example of society's misconceptions about PWDs
>and
>  sexuality, among other things.
>
>  1) People in WC's sexual parts don't function.
>  2) People in WC's are harmless.
>  As a sexual assault counselor for many years, I can tell you there are
>many
>  ways to commit sex offenses w/o using the genitals. I do not believe that
>  failure to prosecute criminal PWD's helps the image of the rest of PWD's.
>  Just my 2 cents.Renee
>  _ >>
>
>Well Renee, I'll give you another one.  Someone told me a long time ago to
>be
>wary of disabled men because they were sometimes oversexed.  Now that I am
>disabled, even though I'm a woman, I sometimes wonder if people think that
>about me.
>
>Betty

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