{"product_id":"an-intimate-life-sex-love-and-my-journey-as-a-surrogate-partner-paperback","title":"An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCheryl T. Cohen-Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLorna Garano\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real life behind Helen Hunt's Oscar-nominated performance in \u003ci\u003eThe Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e \"A provocative and unusual book about a provocative and unusual profession\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past forty years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients to confront and ultimately accept their sexuality. In this riveting memoir, Cohen Greene shares some of her most moving cases, and also reveals her own sexual coming-of-age. Beginning with a rigid Catholic upbringing in the 1950s, where she was taught to think sex and sexual desires were unnatural and wrong, Cohen Greene struggled to reconcile her sexual identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1960s Sexual Revolution, Cohen Greene found herself drawn to alternative sexual paths, and ultimately achieved a rich and rewarding career as a surrogate partner. Sex surrogacy as a profession was first developed by noted sex researchers Masters and Johnson in the 1960s, and since its inception has remained in the shadows. \u003ci\u003eAn Intimate Life\u003c\/i\u003e offers a candid look into the personal and professional life of a surrogate partner, examining the cultural and emotional ramifications of pursuing something most people consider taboo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe memoir opens with Cohen Greene's work with Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who was confined to an iron lung after contracting polio at age six. His short essay \"On Seeing A Sex Surrogate\" was adapted into the film \u003ci\u003eThe Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e starring John Hawkes and Helen Hunt as Cheryl T. Cohen Greene.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl Cohen Greene\u003c\/b\u003e has been in private clinical practice as a surrogate partner and Consultant in Human Sexuality since 1973. She was trained in the Masters and Johnson modality and was on the training staff of San Francisco Sex Information for 19 years. Cohen Green is a certified Sex Educator and Clinical Sexologist, and in 2004 she earned her DHS (Doctor of Human Sexuality) from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She is currently the Vice President of of IPSA (the International Professional Surro¬gates Association). She was one of the founders of BASA (the Bay Area Surrogates Association). Cohen Green is a frequent media guest, who has been interviewed on Larry King Live, the the National Geographic Channel, the WE Channel, and CNN, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLorna Garano is a freelance writer and publicist.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47372163776697,"sku":"9781593765064","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/blmQYBGy_V9781593765064.webp?v=1780692459","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/an-intimate-life-sex-love-and-my-journey-as-a-surrogate-partner-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}