Asta Philpot

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This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (April 2012) This biography of a living person relies on a single source. (March 2009) Asta Anthony Philpot is an American (born Miami, Florida, 1982) man who was the protagonist of a 2007 BBC One documentary film titled For one night only. He was born with arthrogryposis, which impairs his physical ability of movement. He advocates the right to an active sexual life for people with disabilities, even if this means paying for sex.

After hearing of a legal brothel with access for wheelchair during a vacation in Spain in 2006, he visited the place and lost his virginity. He found this experience very interesting and decided, therefore, to organize a trip with other people sharing his extreme difficulties in finding a romantic or sexual relationship as a consequence of physical disabilities, advertising his intentions through dedicated Internet forums.

Although finding initial resistance to the idea, two other young men, affected with different medical conditions (one legally blind and the other paralysed in a motorcycle accident) accepted to join the vacation with the purpose to visit the Spanish night club and have the opportunity of a sexual encounter. A BBC documentary team headed by Producer/Director Jane Beckwith filmed it: the documentary opened some controversies about the opportunity to legalize prostitution in UK, as a means of giving sexual experiences to physically disabled people, who often lack enough social opportunities to build a love relationship, although having a normal social potentiality and normal feelings and sexual needs.

His views contributed to the acclaimed Belgian 2011 film Come as You Are (original title Hasta La Vista), written by Mariano Vanhoof and directed by Geoffrey Enthoven.

See also Nina de Vries is a Dutch sex worker who offers erotic massages to mentally disabled men and women in Germany. Mission Paradis sorti en 2020 sur 3 jeunes handicapés en road trip vers Montréal External links Asta Philpot official website BBC News article regarding his story and the documentary. BBC One page of the episode of the documentary series One Life dedicated to the story of Asta Philpot (episode 3, serie 9). Interview with Asta Philpot on the Young Turks liberal talk radio show, May 2010 on YouTube. Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata Categories: 1982 birthsAmerican disability rights activistsLiving peoplePeople with arthrogryposisPeople from MiamiAmerican activists with disabilities

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