Teenage kicks....

Being a teenager isn’t easy.

Can you imagine also being one that lacks the physical ability to take oneself out of the house, talk to the opposite sex, and together, scratch the itch that can really only be satisfied with the aid of another human being?

Once again, I find myself returning to the topic of disability and society’s outmoded idea that a lack of co-operative body parts equals a concomitant lack of sexual desire.

I am pretty sure that tonight’s episode of ONE Life on BBC 1 at 10.40pm, will do something to alleviate this problem. This is ‘not to be missed’ TV…

'Last year, 25 year-old Asta Philpot lost his virginity in a Spanish brothel. Now he's planning a return trip, but this time he wants to take a group of disabled virgins along for the ride. Asta was born with a condition called 'Arthrogryposis'. It left him unable to move most of his body, but he can feel everything. Having sex for the first time changed his life and now he wants other disabled people to have the same experience.

Asta is joined by two men who were keen to climb on board his 'Love Bus'. Lee is 35 - blind since birth, he is still a virgin. Shah, 22, had a devastating motorbike accident when he was 16 leaving him partially paralysed from the waist down. Asta's parents and full-time carers are also on board to help out at the brothel. Asta can't wait to have his second sexual experience and is confident Lee and Shah will have life-changing encounters. But will they be able to go through with it? ONE life follows the three men on their journey of sexual discovery.'