Sexual Healing
8.2
Exploring lingerie, sex toys and the pleasures of her own body for the first time, a middle-aged disabled woman interrogates what physical intimacy means to her. After a lifetime of enduring mostly clinical forms of touch, she yearns for her first gratifying sexual experience. With the support of her friends, caregivers and a Dutch organization that connects disabled people to sex care workers, she builds the confidence needed to prioritize this aspect of her well-being at last. Offering a lens through which we can examine intersections of sexuality, disability and gender, Sexual Healing is an introspective conversation-starter that brings much-needed illumination to an experience that is too often left out of social discourse.
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Elsbeth Fraanje Director
United States release March 2, 2022 · Produced in Netherlands · Languages Dutch, German
Production
Tangerine Tree
Production
Netherlands
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
Dutch · German
Release dates
United States · March 2, 2022
Premiere
South Korea
September 15, 2023 · Premiere · DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
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