Sex surrogate therapy, while becoming a growing practice since its introduction as a highly effective therapeutic modality by Masters and Johnson, remains today an area of controversy with complex legal, moral, ethical, professional, and clinical implications. Misconceptions about who the sex surrogates are and what they do are shared by both the public and professional community alike, with the greatest confusion still seeming to exist about the role of the surrogate with that of the prostitute. What are the functions of a sex surrogate and in what perspective can we put them to give us a better understanding of surrogate therapy in relation to sexological theory?
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Psychiatrists and other therapists are obligated by medical ethics not to have sex with their patients, but “surrogate partners” are supposed to and that simple but loaded dichotomy goes to the heart of the little understood yet much maligned therapeutic practice of sex surrogacy.
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Although Dr. Ruth’s name may be known by millions of people, those “in the know” – and we are in the know — consider, Dr. Marty Klien, to be just about the last word in the field of sex therapy. Author of “Your Sexual Secrets” (published by Dutton), and, more recently “Ask Me Anything: A Sex Therapist Answers the Most Important Questions for the ’90s” (published by Fireside/Simon & Schuster), Marty Klein has been a consistent voice of sanity and good sense in a sometimes, well, flakey field.
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More than 60 years ago, the gurus of modern sexual therapy, Dr William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, assigned their coupled patients some rigorous bedroom homework. Those who struggled to find the clitoris or grasp the “squeeze technique” for suppressing premature ejaculation, were read the manual and then told to go play.
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Sex Surrogacy Can Be Educational or a Substitute Sex Partner.
In ancient societies, hands- on sex education was done by the Shaman back when sex wasn’t the huge legal and moral issue it is today, especially in the U.S.
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I recently saw a British TV show that profiled a woman who works as a sex surrogate in France. The way she worked seemed very professional and I’m interested in this type of service. When I did a search for sex-surrogate services in Toronto, I didn’t get hits. I’m looking for someone to help me with a lack of sexual knowledge and I don’t think an escort is the way to go. Is this type of service available in Toronto?
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In modern Western societies the messages about sex are extremely contradictory and confusing. We have no traditional rites of passage nor meaningful ceremonies to initiate young people into informed adult sexuality. I hoped that my work might establish standards that could help people of all ages have less confusion about sex and intimate relationships.
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A surrogate partner is a member of a three-way therapeutic team consisting of therapist, client and surrogate partner. The surrogate participates as a partner to the client in experiences designed to build the client’s skills in the areas of physical and emotional intimacy. This partnerwork includes exercises in communication, relaxation, sensual and sexual touching, and social skills training.
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Sex therapy is a specialized form of professional counseling that helps women and men address concerns about sexual function, sexuality and sexual expression. These may include problems with arousal, inability to reach orgasm, painful intercourse or issues of sexual identity. Couples or individuals may talk to a therapist when they have differences in sexual desire, the need to increase verbal and physical communication, or to find ways to enhance their intimate relationships.
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I look in the bag. Dad s Assorted. It would probably be rude to root through until I found a chocolate chip, so I decline.
“Okay,” he smiles and shrugs; a big hand plunges again into the yellow bag and he returns his gaze to what s happening around him.
It is an exercise to give human service workers just a hint, just a glimmer, of what it feels like to be someone totally dependent on other human beings.
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Andrew Doucette, 22, clearly remembers being a teenager with raging hormones.
“Its mind-boggling,” he declares. “All of a sudden, things are happening that weren t happening before. I started discovering that the opposite sex was yucky. It was a whole different story.”
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It’s no secret that the able-bodied population reacts standoffish when encountering a person with a disability. However, humans are smart and can consciously change the way they think and act. Here are some tips to help disabilities and relationships mesh.
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Sometimes I feel that Romantic Love is overly romanticized and commercialized around Valentines Day, so I would LOVE to address the subject of Passion and sexual Desire for this column. Does this make sense to you? Maybe its just my particular Happily Ever
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The consequences of urinary incontinence can be devastating for both the child and the family. There are, however, many things that both parent and child can do to make it manageable.
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Just when the shopping trip is going so well, when the food finally arrives at the fancy restaurant, or just when the movie gets good-oops-incontinence strikes. Appropriate planning can make the difference between the lousy timing and a ruined outing.
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I’m very impressed by the paralinks web site in general, and especially, it’s exciting (no pun intended), to see people with SCI connecting and exchanging thoughts and advise to other’s about their sexuality — such a vital subject to enhance our overall quality of life!
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A spinal cord injury (SCI) affects a man’s sexuality both physically and psychologically. The type and level of injury both can play a role on the impact that the injury has on a man’s sexuality. After injury, men may face changes in relationships, sexual activity, and their ability to biologically father children.
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Hi, my name is Gordon and I am writing to you after reading Grace’s columns on sex. She is so right on. I learned some things from her about woman that I had not thought of before. Now I want to share my own experience regarding sexuality, or lack of, which was the case when I ended up a paraplegic after breaking my lower vertebrae’s on some rocks at the beach.
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Sexuality in spinal injury: the spinal cord injured male:sexual drive and activity
Although spinal cord injured men may lose the ability to maintain erection, ejaculate, or experience orgasm, their sex drive often remains strong.
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Q: Now that I have a disability, I’m really concerned about having sexual intercourse. Can I do it? And what kind of sex life can I have if I can’t?
A: To the question “Can I do it?,” the answer is usually, “Yes.” The obstacle most often faced by women is an inability to lubricate, which is easily solved with a non-petroleum-based product such as K-Y Jelly or Astroglide.
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