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Fraud

Parts of this feature may be hard to stomach, but facts are facts, and facts do not need to be liked or agreed with in order to be facts. 

Black paint oozing out of a woman's lips with 'Dirty Word' written across it.

How treating 'disabled' like a dirty word does more damage than good,


It's time to dump the politically correct term 'people/person with disabilities'.

Ableism remains the most acceptable form of discrimination.


So acceptable, some people don’t even know what ‘ableism’ means - and it’s getting worse.

Being in a severely painful body is frustrating for many reasons. 

 

Equally frustrating is dealing with people who know nothing about my conditions. What happened at the local shop today is a prime example...

I’m not really sure where this piece is going to go.


One thing I do know, though, is it’s not going to be particularly positive...

Why twenty years on the outskirts of society has made me despair of what Western culture has become and why we need a deep shift for the better. 

The bare legs of a woman in heels in a manual wheelchair.

Admitting to ourselves we need a wheelchair can be hard.


Dealing with disbelieving people and councils and businesses breaking the law all over Britain can be even harder.



A vinyl record on a player with title 'Music v Pain' over it.

As well as enhancing our mood, whether you're in the dentist's chair or recovering from surgery, evidence shows music can be a valuable pain-fighting tool.



A microphone on a white background behind the word 'Feminism'.

All over the internet, 'feminist' is used as an attempted insult by insecure manbabies and younger women who have, apparently, lost their way and ended up knee-deep in the mire of misogyny.


The words Nice Guys in white with woman sitting in the dark next to them.

Nice Guys always 'finish last', apparently.  He's left on the bench, rejected in favour of, what? 


Ask that and this where the entire self-pitying trope starts falling apart...

The word Switch crossed out with Filthy under it and a profile of a woman lying on the floor

I awoke this morning with a Chihuahua asleep at my feet and a filthy Royal Marine with thighs bigger than my corseted waist in bed beside me. 

Thank you, Universe. 

I fucking deserve this.

The words Daddy Issues in pink with a woman sucking a lollypop next to them.

Did I and do I have Daddy Issues?
Abso-fucking-lutely. 

Is this hangover from emotionally abusive situations and paths taken by an adult man, my fault? 

Abso-fucking-lutely not.

The word 'Wanker' in next to a woman in a white swimsuit under UV light.

It's safe to say since my libido developed, the want for sex has driven me to distraction.


Correction: When sex with another human has been absent. There has been plenty of masturbation.

The word Pain in white with a hand splattered in neon pain next to it.

EDS bodies are some of the most fragile you'll ever meet.  This delicacy also makes us some of the toughest personalities upon this planet. 

Pain. 

It softens and hardens you all at the same time.

A woman's back with paint dripping on it and the word 'Lover'.

Called frigid in high school, my first sexual foray came in the days when our parents would take us to the nearest town and drop us off for our weekly pub-crawl.  Times have changed since then, but my pickiness when choosing lovers has not...

A woman in white underwear in UV light crouching next to the title 'Tired'.

The pain is hard enough, but the emotional impacts of Ehlers-Danlos' progression are exhausting, and as I told a fellow EDS sufferer today I.

Am.

Tired...

The title 'Velvet' next to a woman on a branch in a river.

One of the ways Hypermobile Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (HEDS) is diagnosed is through examining our skin, and the medical term for the way it feels is 'velvety soft'.  Sounds great, but this softness comes with pitfalls and risks. 

The words 'Cut Both Ways' over a picture of my stocking top and suspender belt.

Don't like women speaking about sexual desire or negative experiences with men? Hit Images and look at my ass instead.  The issue for me is how hard is it to repeatedly fuck the same person without there being an end goal, other than the fucking?

Hoping corsets would relieve and support my spine permanently fracture, hypermobile spine, I soon realised they also heightened my sense of femininity, sparking something I struggle to express.

Unbeknown to me that tiny but deceptively bright light would bring out an exhibitionism I didn't know was sitting in my psyche. What I should have known is...

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Succubus

Licking at their exposed throats,

She takes them when they sleep.

When they're at their most vulnerable

And easy upon which to feast.




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Cupped

He sits in silence, staring at the walls.

Sweat like diamonds

On his forehead.

One hand cupping his balls.




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Submission

She pauses in the doorway

Regarding him on her bed.

Almost naked with both hands

Bound above his head.




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