In this episode... Today's Nugget Guest is Susan Fitzmaurice - a lifelong sex and disability advocate, parent of a child with a disability, and owner of the website SexSupport.org. Susan's Sex Support has been around since 1995 - perhaps one of the oldest sex support sites out there. The organization started off to support the needs of parents who had children with disabilities. Susan's own son was born with developmental disabilities. When she looked for information to help support her son as he grew up, she could find absolutely nothing out there. Over time she accumulated a large amount of information and decided to put it out there on a website for other people who had questions so they would have a resource to go to for their own questions and to help support them support their children. The site became a combination site for both professionals and for people with disabilities or their support network (of parents and family members) - to help with healthy growth and development for children with disabilities. Susan's site is primarily informational but it is a sex support site and does have a store. There are only ever a dozen products or so on that store, specifically geared towards beginners and introductory sex toys. These are specifically described and offered without images of naked people so that this site would be more widely used. In her experiences, she has found that it was difficult to pass muster into schools, religious organizations, etc who needed this information but nudity prevents usage within the organization guidelines. You can find all of this information at www.sexsupport.org. A little about Susan Fitzmaurice... Susan Fitzmaurice is a lifelong disability advocate, a person with multiple disabilities, a parent of a son with other disabilities, and thinks sex-positivity is a critical component to living well with a disability. She has written many journal articles including "A mother's narrative: Reflections on life with a disability." Sexuality and Disability, Summer, 2002, Volume 20, No. 2, "The Name for a child with a Disability" in Sticks and Stone: Disabled People's Stories of Abuse, Defiance, and Resilience, and "Inclusive education, sexuality, and developmental disabilities", Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. How to contact Susan... www.sexsupport.org Society for Disability Studies www.disstudies.org Help the BCBC show thrive... Then check out other ways you can support the show: Donate to the show and get stuff here: www.patreon.com/bcbcpodcast Please LIKE AND SHARE THE FACEBOOK PAGE with everyone... www.facebook.com/bcbcpodcast Read our blogs and leave us a message on our cool new website: www.bcbcpodcast.com You should also watch and subscribe to the video show!!! https://www.youtube.com/bcbcpodcast Would you like to donate to a non-profit education program? Contact us at bcbcpodcast@gmail.com