Tuppy Owens

Rosalind Mary "Tuppy" Owens (12 November 1944 – 28 February 2025) was an English human rights and sexual health activist, therapist, consultant, campaigner, writer and adult model.

[1][2] Born in Cambridge, Owens gained a degree in zoology from Exeter University, and then worked in ecology in Africa and Trinidad.

In order to ensure that she answered the members' questions with accuracy, Owens trained as a sex therapist at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, where she gained a diploma in Human Sexuality in 1986.

For disabled men and women who want to learn what pleasures their bodies are capable of enjoying, and how to please a partner, Owens set up the TLC Trust website, where they can find responsible, safe sexual services.

In November 2009, a conference with the title "Disability: Sex, Relationships and Pleasure" was held by SHADA with the Royal Society of Medicine.

Owens had been working with Designability (formerly the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering) in the hope that they would be able to create sex toys that could be used by disabled people who, without them, cannot masturbate.

She completed The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens, with the assistance of her friend Emma Buckett, and it was published in 2024.