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    An Intimate Life: sex, love, and my journey as a surrogate partner

    By Cheryl Cohen Greene and Lorna Garano

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    A riveting memoir from the woman behind the major motion picture The Sessions — and an intimate portrayal of sexuality in the 20th century.

    For the past 40 years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients to form fulfilling sexual relationships. The men and women she works with have sexual phobias, disabilities, and problems with self-esteem. Often, her most important role as a surrogate is simply to show understanding.

    In this candid memoir, Cohen Greene shares some of her most memorable cases, including that of Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio at age six. She also tells of her own sexual coming-of-age — from a rigid Catholic upbringing in the 1950s, where she was taught to think sex was unnatural and wrong, and then through the sexual revolution of 1960s and 1970s, an open marriage, an encounter with cancer, and a rich and rewarding career as a surrogate partner.

    An Intimate Life is more than the story of one woman’s career as a sexual healer — it’s a love story, a meditation on compassion and grief, and a tale of sexual and emotional awakening. Arresting and compelling, it gives an insight into this most unusual of professions, and those who take part in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateNov 12, 2012
    ISBN9781922072146
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    An Intimate Life: sex, love, and my journey as a surrogate partner
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    Cheryl Cohen Greene

    Cheryl Cohen Greene, DHS, 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. She was a founder of Bay Area Surrogates Association, a support group for surrogates, and in 2004 she earned her Doctor of Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. A certified sex educator and clinical sexologist, she is also vice-president of the International Professional Surrogates Association. Visit her at www.cherylcohengreene.com

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      When I finished this book, I asked myself why could I not stop reading each time I picked it up. It was because I felt like someone was talking to me and I wanted to listen. Then I remembered how the author spoke about communication - saying it was key in sexuality and in life. I loved this book!