A Wheelie Good Sex Chat – Details, episodes & analysis

In the final episode of Season 2, Candice sits down with the incredible Jodi Rodgers — sexologist, counsellor, educator, author, and the much-loved relationship counsellor from Love on the Spectrum.

With more than 30 years of experience in disability and sexuality education, Jodi shares her journey and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Together, she and Candice talk about making sexuality and relationship education accessible, the crucial role of support workers, the complexities of dating and social connections, and the importance of open conversations around consent and communication. This is the perfect close to another season of honest chats about disability, sexuality, and relationships.

Candice chats with Nick Dempsey, a disability advocate, speaker, and content creator whose life took a turn after a diving accident on his 21st birthday left him with a spinal cord injury. Nick talks about life with a disability, dating, sexuality, and the ups and downs of finding independence again.

Life after injury doesn’t mean stopping, it just means doing things differently. These days, Nick’s adding marriage celebrant and model to his list of roles, while lending his voice to spinal research as an ambassador through the Perry Cross Foundation. He’s even designed an ⁠adaptive drinking glove⁠ to make everyday life easier!

Part two of this conversation is available on Nick’s own podcast, Chats From A Chair⁠⁠. Tune in there to catch the rest of the chat!

Season 2 of A Wheelie Good Sex Chat continues the conversation at the intersection of disability and sexuality. Host Candice Care-Unger returns with a new line-up of guests to explore topics shaped by community feedback and lived experience. Expect honest, informed discussions on sexuality, pleasure, relationships, and identity, centred on the voices that matter most.

In this episode, we talk with Mel Harrison. Mel Harrison is a person with a disability who uses a wheelchair and wears hearing aids. Mel is the Founder of Sitting Low, Reaching High, a consultant in disability, diversity, and inclusion, and a long-time advocate for people with disabilities. We discuss the work Mel does in providing sexuality education and helping foster safe and respectful relationships, empowering people to explore dating, and creating environments for people to find connection.

In this episode, we chat with Jennie Williams, Founder and CEO of Enhance the UK, about ways in which support workers and support teams can facilitate sexual wellbeing. Enhance the UK is a user-led charity aiming to educate people of all ages about disability, as well as assist those with a disability in playing a full and active role in society.

In this episode, we explore with Jess Pellow what happens when you have an injury as a young kid and acquire a disability coming through the rehabilitation paediatric services. Jess shares the ways that her injury changed opportunities for sexuality education, how her injury has helped shape her creative view on sexuality, accessible dating tips and so much more.

In this episode, Rachel Wotton joins us for a chat about sex work and disability in Australia. Rachel Wotton is a sex worker, academic, consultant and educator. She has previously held positions with Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) NSW, Scarlet Alliance⁠⁠ - the Australian Sex Workers Association, and Touching Base.

The 2011 Australian documentary Scarlett Road highlighted her work with clients with disability, which was also featured in her 2016 TEDxBundry presentation and 2016 Masters by Research.

Rachel is a Churchill Fellowship recipient and is currently finishing her PhD at Western Sydney University. The focus of her PhD is exploring the experiences of people with disability who access sex worker services in Australia.

Visit the Touching Base website for information for disabled people or their support staff/carers on how to access the sex industry, the Touching Base Referral List, and unique resources for people with disability.

In this episode, Dan Holt, Peer and Family Support Team Leader with Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, shares his experience of living with disability, his work educating others who have acquired a spinal cord injury, and how he went about reinventing himself to find his sexual confidence again.

In this episode, Dr Emily Bray shares her story of motherhood after a spinal cord injury in her 20s. We talk about dating, fertility, pregnancy, birth, infant care and parenting with a high-level spinal cord injury - the lessons she has learned along the way that have helped shape her understanding of what makes for a great mum and challenge community assumptions about what parenting is.

In this episode, we chat with Dr Mitchell Tepper, sexuality educator and coach, researcher on pleasure and orgasm, and author of Regain That Feeling: Secrets to Sexual Self-Discovery. Dr Tepper has also created a documentary called Love After War that provides insights on restoring emotional and physical intimacy after serious combat related injuries. Our discussion is about rediscovering sex and connectedness following an injury. Specifically, we talk about ejaculation and spinal cord injury, breath, energy, tantra and orgasm.