Disability Arts and Culture by Kuppers Petra.;

Author:Kuppers, Petra.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789380019
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

The portrayal of people with disabilities in jokes

A disabled person is perceived as weak and invalid in sexual life. People with disabilities are assumed to be celibates who sublimate their desires, or they are viewed as deficient people who cannot satisfy their desires. Such depiction of a disabled person is found in many Moroccan jokes and anecdotes.

Jokes about the sexuality of people with disabilities can be placed into one of three categories. The first category of jokes questions the ability of people with disabilities to have sexual intercourse. The second portrays them as frustrated, and the third depicts them as eager for sex. Presented below are jokes representative of each category.

The following joke is representative of the first category, questioning the ability of people with disabilities to have sexual intercourse:

An armless and legless man lived in the same house with some friends who always invited prostitutes to their house. The armless and legless man wanted to join his friends’ activities and have sexual intercourse like them. He begged them to bring a prostitute for him; they strongly tried to convince him of the impossibility of what he desired, but their efforts were in vain. They decided to do him this favor and bring a whore to the house. He asked them to help him in the sexual intercourse by lifting him up and down; when he reached sexual orgasm he barked out, ‘Step vigorously upon me’.

The second category depicts the people with disabilities as frustrated people who cannot quench their sexual desires:

A woman in a wheelchair meets a man in the street and asks him to accompany her to a garden. Once there, she asks him to sleep with her. He accepted willingly. He then fastened her to a stake to have easy sexual intercourse with her. Then he accompanied her home. When he delivered her home, her mother thanked him very sincerely. Surprised he asked the mother, ‘Why are you so grateful to me?’ The mother replied, ‘You are the only person who accompanies my daughter to her house. The other men before you leave her suspended on the stake’.

The third category of jokes depicts people with disabilities as eager for sex:

A crippled man wanted to have sex. He went to a whorehouse and asked for five girls. Puzzled, the whore asked him how he was going to deal with all of them. ‘It is none of your business!’ answered the crippled man. Once in intimacy he asked the first whore to take his right arm, the second to take his left arm, the third to take his right leg and the fourth to take his left leg, whereas he asked the fifth to penetrate him. Satisfied, he ordered the four girls to set him free, and he mechanically surrounded the fifth girl with his arms and legs.

We can see that the above jokes depict people with disabilities as weak and invalid. Although, attitudes towards the people with disabilities vary from culture to culture, and from one historical period

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