The sex divers , sometimes referred to as a partner substitute , is a practitioner trained in dealing with intimacy and sexuality issues. Replacement partners work with therapists to meet their client's goals. This triadic model is used to support clients on a regular basis: clients engage in experience exercises and build relationships with their surrogate partners while processing and integrating their experiences with their therapist or physician.
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Overview
The modalities in which the alternate partner is called Partner Replacement Therapy . This modality is used to overcome the obstacles of physical and emotional intimacy that clients can not solve through traditional therapy and require partner involvement. Client presentation problems usually include sexual dysfunction, lack of healthy intimate experience, or a traumatic history.
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History
Masters and Johnson introduced the exercise in their book Human Sexual Inadecacy, published in 1970. They believe that people can learn about sexual intimacy only by experiencing it. In their study, the partnered subjects used this pair to assist in a series of exercises designed to help overcome sexual dysfunction. Unpaired subjects are paired with "replacements" that will replace spouses, work under the direction of a trained therapist and act as a form of mentor to the client. In their study, all substitutes were women assigned to work with single men. Today, most of the substitutes are women, but some men. The practice of Surrogate Partner Therapy peaked in the early 1980s with several hundred substitute partners practicing in the US Since then, the popularity of Surrogate Partner Therapy has declined but has recently reentered social awareness after the 2012 film The Sessions which describes a substitute job with a disabled person. Currently, those who practice Surrogate Partner Therapy are still very few in number.
Common issues
Patients often present with this specific problem:
Some people experience changes in the sexual lifestyle because of the disabilities they get (accidents, paralysis, illness, trauma), and substitutes can help them explore and develop sexual potential. The causes of sexual problems are numerous and possible replacement methods to help improve the client's sexual life vary.
Therapy
Because sexual problems are more often psychological than physical, communication plays a key role in the therapeutic process between patients and surrogates, as well as between surrogate couples and therapists. Replacement partners offer therapeutic exercises to help patients. This may include, but is not limited to relaxation techniques, focusing sensation, communication, building a healthy body image, teaching social skills, sex education, as well as sensual and some sexual touches. Replacement partner therapy begins with a meeting between the client, the therapist, and the surrogate partner in which the client's objectives are discussed and the scope/duration of therapy is established. During the process, communication between substitute clients, client therapists, and partner-replacement therapists is maintained.
Some couples attend couples pair therapy sessions together, while some people (either single or in couples) attend on their own. The substitutes engage in education and frequent intimate contact and/or sexual activity with clients to achieve therapeutic goals. Some surrogates work in counseling centers, while others have their own offices.
Articles
Salon.com article 2003 "I am a middle-aged virgin", by Michael Castleman, discusses a middle-aged American virgin (Roger Andrews) and therapy with Vena Blanchard sex substitute.
Documentary
- This Is Life with Lisa Ling presents an episode for "Sexual Healing" (Season 4, Episode 1).
- The 1985 documentary Personal Practice: The Sex Substitute explores the relationship between sex substitute (Maureen Sullivan), her client, and her client therapist.
- The National Geographic Event Taboo ' s episode of "Forbidden Love" (Season 7, Episode 6, first aired 2011) featuring professional sex substitute (Cheryl Cohen-Greene) at one of its segments.
- The Discovery Fit & amp; The My Sex Surrogate health documentary, first aired in 2013, follows a woman and a man as they each work with a sex substitute. The sex substitute who works with the man is Cheryl Cohen-Greene.
In popular culture
The American Film The Sessions (2012) stars Helen Hunt as Cheryl, a sexual substitute who helps polio survivors Mark (John Hawkes) lost her virginity at the age of 38, based on the story real Mark O'Brien and Cheryl Cohen-Greene. O'Brien wrote about his experience in 1990.
References
External links
- "IPSA - International Association of Professional Substitutes".
- Sex Surrogates: Clarifying Their Functions Raymond J. Noonan, Ph.D., SexQuest/The Sex Institute, NYC. Master's thesis for New York University, February 1984.
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