Buckle up, folks: we’re headed to crazytown with no brakes.
Following a 2020 federal court ruling in Australia, for several years, under the auspices of promoting “human rights,” which seem to multiply by the year in the West, anyone who qualified as disabled for the purposes of suckling at the government teat enjoyed “access to specialized sex services” under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) scheme, which advocates frame as “important [for] creating equal access to… intimacy and pleasure.”
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Via Scarlet Alliance National Sex Workers Association (emphasis added):
Since 2020, access to specialised sex services have been confirmed as available through the NDIS [National Disability Insurance Scheme] following a Federal Court ruling. This ruling determined that the National Disability Insurance Agency should approve such services when they are considered reasonable and necessary in an NDIS participant’s personal circumstances…
Disabled people often face significant stigma and discrimination when trying to form intimate relationships or engage in sexual self pleasure. Recognising that ‘sexual services’ are a legitimate need for some people with disability is an important step in creating equal access to the human right for intimacy and pleasure. To deny disabled people who may need support to express this right is a human rights violation.
In 2024, in a victory for responsible governance and common sense, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten ended the special publicly-funded supply of prostitutes for the disabled on the grounds that it was “not a sustainable proposition,” much to the dismay of aforementioned “human rights” groups.
Via ABC (Australia) (emphasis added):
For many National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants, a federal government decision means they can no longer access sexual services funding under the system, or they could risk financial pressure.
Sydneysider Oliver Morton-Evans says this decision has been "deeply disappointing" for many who live with a disability, including himself.
"Now, only those who are financially well-off in the disability community can afford this service by paying out of pocket," he said.
One of the most common stereotypes that Mr Morton-Evans comes up against is the assumption that people with a disability aren't sexual beings.
What he knows firsthand though is that intimacy and sex can be integral to identity and happiness for all humans.
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One young lady, Nova Hawthorne, a social worker who moonlights as a sex worker for the disabled — not to be confused with a disabled sex worker, a separate kink — expressed outrage at the end of her government-facilitated side-hustle, citing sex for the handicapped as a “human right.”
Continuing:
Nova Hawthorne has been in the sex work industry for over nine years and has seen multiple clients who live with a disability.
With one of her clients, Ms Hawthorne said the services she provided were sexual, but also focused on therapeutic care and dignity…
Ms Hawthorne, who is also a social worker, noted that while not a significant number of NDIS participants used their funding for these services, to no longer have it as an option "sets a precedent".
"Many people with disabilities have to constantly advocate for their basic rights and services. To have something so personal and important as sexual intimacy impacted, that's really upsetting," Ms Hawthorne said.
"Sex is a human right. While it's not something that people should be entitled to, it's something adults should have the opportunity to seek out to feel human."
Must everything be turned into a commodity to be bought and sold — and, what’s more, one subsidized by the state and doled out to welfare recipients?
