Illustration: Dotti Colvin" "copyright SWAD Recently government guidance banned close contact indoors between two or more people from different households, due to Coronavirus. Some interesting headlines followed, along the lines of “British Bonking Ban” and “UK Sex Ban”. The general population were outraged at this interference in their private sexual lives, and didn’t like being told “no” regarding this pleasurable adult activity. It got me thinking about how different life can be if you have a long-term health condition or disability, particularly with regard to sex. At SWAD, we’ve had experience of the limitations placed on intimate relationships by narrow thinking on the part of health professionals; some of it from personal experience, and some of it from other disabled people’s experience. It is a “tax” on sex and intimacy that is virtua