{"product_id":"9781593765064","title":"An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past forty years, Cheryl T. Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients confront, consider, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the 1960s presented social upheaval and the Sexual Revolution, Cohen Greene found herself drawn to alternative sexual paths, and ultimately achieved a rich and rewarding career as a surrogate partner. An Intimate Life 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 do not immediately understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 by screenwriter\/director Ben Lewin into a major motion Picture titled The Sessions starrring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes, and was released nationwide in October 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041091502320,"sku":"9781593765064","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593765064_p0.jpg?v=1769901667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593765064","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}