Wheel Love: documentary dives into love, sex, relationships and fertility in SCI

Three years ago, Chelsea McEvoy and Samantha (Sam) Baxter realized, when it comes to real world insights about love and relationships involving a partner with an SCI, the internet is lacking. So the two friends created Wheel Love — a blog based on their experiences as women in love with men who have an SCI. McEvoy accepted from the beginning that she and Baxter would have to open up about deeply personal experiences for the blog to have any impact. But she had no idea, just a few years later, she’d be doubling down on the soul-baring by turning the spotlight and video camera on some of the most intimate parts of her relationship with James Hektner, a Peer with T6/7 paraplegia.

The documentary, also titled Wheel Love, is 23 minutes long. It tells McEvoy’s and Hektner’s story as they struggle to capture viable sperm and conceive through intrauterine insemination. But it’s also much more — their story is beautifully interwoven with interviews with 11 couples, all with one of the partners having an SCI or other disability, who have children.

Though there are no sexually explicit scenes, there is some sexually raw language though. View the documentary HERE.