In this paper we examine, from a social perspective, access to family planning clinics for disabled people. We
argue that disabled people are commonly understood to be either asexual, uninterested in sex or unable to take part
in sexual activity, or sexual `monsters' unable to control their sexual drives and feelings. These understandings are
reproduced through the use of cultural representations and myths, and are evidenced in the planning and design of
family planning clinics and the information and services they provide. To illustrate our arguments we present the
®ndings of a short questionnaire survey of all family planning clinics in Northern Ireland. Physical access to these
clinics was partial, and access to information and services were extremely limited. These results indicate that
disabled people are not expected to be using the services (consultation, treatment, information) that family planning
clinics provide. As such, family planning clinics in Northern Ireland represent a landscape of exclusion, denying
disabled people access to services and reproducing cultural ideologies concerning disability and sexuality. 7 2000
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