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Would you use a sex surrogate ?

Asked by sandystrachan (4417points) September 18th, 2009

Sex therapist who is a sex surrogate has helped many people , to me this is just whoring about .
Is it normal practice for sex therapists to sleep with clients ? What really would change if you let your partner sleep with her , Hang on pay someone to have sex doesn’t that = prostitution .
Thoughts on this whole story !?

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ragingloli's avatar

it is only prostitution if the sex is the main point.
if sex is only the medium for the main point, the therapy, then it’s just a guy who want’s to sleep with the partner’s of others and get paid for it.
it’s ridiculous.

Saturated_Brain's avatar

“Sometimes I will have sex with a husband in front of his wife, to show them both how to be more sensitive lovers.”

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Glow's avatar

woooooowww…. I never knew something like that even existed….

I wouldn’t though (and man, I don’t know why any guy would want to sleep with the lady in that article, ugh). I also wouldn’t appreciate if my man did that either. I would prefer that me and my guy learn to have better sex by having sex TOGETHER. How is going to learn how to please me if he is pleasing another woman? Who said I like what she likes? Ya know?

Plus, isn’t it disgusting just knowing you stuck your wang in a woman who has had sex with thousands of other men? I know I would never let my guy back in me if he did that. Ugh. (shivers)

ragingloli's avatar

after reviewing the link…
i might consider using a sex therapist.
but certainly not this ugly hag!

casheroo's avatar

That is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard. I understand therapy can help when a couple is having trouble, but I don’t see how watching your spouse have sex with someone else can actually help you.

dpworkin's avatar

I think it is quite an ugly idea, and profoundly unethical. It soils the image of sex therapy which is a very ameliorative protocol for couples with sexual difficulties. Shame on her.

mramsey's avatar

I would never allow my partner to use a sex therapist. If he even suggested it, there would be a big fight. I would consider it cheating if he did.

drClaw's avatar

I’m with @casheroo I can’t see how having sex with someone other than your SO is going to help your sex life. Also I was not the least bit surprised to hear that most men only come for 1 or 2 appointments, maybe because after having sex with another woman things got worse?

CMaz's avatar

” What really would change if you let your partner sleep with her?”

The change would of happened before the act was committed. If her intent was to try the “therapy.”

Not going to happen in my life. But, as a single person. Hey, I see it as a way to get laid. Nothing more.

AstroChuck's avatar

Me like sex.

ragingloli's avatar

@ChazMaz
dying as a virgin or that ugly wench?
death as virgin kthxbi

rebbel's avatar

She’s not that bad.

aprilsimnel's avatar

This is from The Sun, one of the few papers in the world that’s worse than the NY Post. What are any of you expecting from the likes of The Sun? I wouldn’t be surprised if they just found some woman’s photo from a stock house and wrote the whole bit up themselves.

benjaminlevi's avatar

It can’t be considered prostitution any more than we can consider pornographic actors prostitutes, they just get paid to have sex on camera

I mean if we use a football analogy, you can have a great coach but if the two of you don’t practice any football how will you learn to be good at it? You gotta be taught how to put the theory into action.

Then again this is The Sun)

CMaz's avatar

“You gotta be taught how to put the theory into action.”
I do like to teach. :-)

markyy's avatar

I’d say most people that call themselves a ‘sex therapist’ are doing it to get laid themself. Anyway it doesn’t matter because there is only one sexual healer and he’s gay!

jaketheripper's avatar

I think it sounds like a great idea

tinyfaery's avatar

Some people need to be taught to pleasure their partner. Prostitute or therapist, I’m not going to judge.

YARNLADY's avatar

I believe that is not the norm. The only sex therapist I knew (not as a client) used an anatomically correct dummy to demonstrate.

mramsey's avatar

@jaketheripper you’re a jerk. lol

MrBr00ks's avatar

wow. I might use one, but in my current money situation, not so much.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

if this works for couples, let them do it…i don’t think a partner should do it without their partner’s okay…also I think I’d make a good sex therapist…and I’m sure, to her, it’s not about getting pleasure out of it…

chell's avatar

Hmmm well i would say that it would mean more trouble between the couple than when they began the thearpy. Unless the couple were able to handle the ugly head of jealously. Because it would pop up at some point. It doesn’t matter if she is out for pleasure there would be a measure of pleasure on both sides the therapist and the client and the SO is just there watching left out. I would think if there was to be teaching both partners should be involved and the therapist should instruct. As for it be like prostitution well hmm unless as i said she is more or less an instructor not the main focus of the act then no. if not then yes i would think i would come close.

wundayatta's avatar

I’m surprised that people can’t separate therapy and education from a marital relationship. It’s as if when you have sex, you have to be committed to that person, not just caring for them. It’s as if when you have sex with someone who isn’t your spouse, you’re going to run off with them and the marriage will be kaput.

It is clear that that is not what is going on in this story. The couple is there because they have problems with sex, and no amount of book learning is going to help. People need to learn how to feel comfortable with their bodies and with sex, and they are not getting this from their spouses. Their relationships have an element of misery as a result.

As long as both parties in the couple are comfortable with this, it seems to me to be appropriate. It’s not whoring. It’s not prostitution. Sex is something that needs to be learned just like anything else. Not everyone is a natural. Sometimes therapy of a hands-on nature is appropriate.

If people don’t understand how to be sexual champions on their own, does this mean we should doom them to lives of dissatisfaction? Sometimes there are things that can’t be taught in words. You have to show people. Do baseball coaches teach players using only words? Do dance instructors use only words? No. When it’s a physical activity, then a physical demonstration is crucial.

But prejudices about the privacy of this act make it seem somehow unethical to sell services that include sex. Or prejudices about what is moral and what isn’t. I think people are responding to this on a knee-jerk level, and not really seeing through their prejudices about the meaning of sex and love. Shouldn’t everyone have a chance to have sexual pleasure with their spouse? Is it so unreasonable to think that some people just can’t get comfortable with their bodies without therapeutic help? Why the cynicism?

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