Disability and Delight: Staring Back at the Devotee Community

Disability and Delight: Staring Back at the Devotee Community is the most recent incarnation of an ongoing research project originally began as an undergraduate thesis in the English department at the University of California at Berkeley. Using first-hand accounts of both people with disabilities and self-identified devotees, the nature of sexual attraction to people with disabilities, as well as the responses to that attraction, are examined. In addition, a critical eye is cast toward some of the existing scholarship on the subject. Ultimately, the question raised is if the attraction of devotees is exploitation or empowerment of people with disabilities.