Would you pay someone to teach you how to be sexual and intimate? Some people do! Surrogate partners work with clients to learn their bodies and how to have consensual, boundaried, erotic contact with others. Brian Gibney of bgsurrogatetherapy.com talks about touch, legality, and a misleading movie related to surrogate partner therapy.1:00 he helps people learn to be sexual and intimate4:00 Cheryl Cohen Greene sounds awesome 6:00 reasons why people seek out a surrogate partner10:00 what is the training process like?13:00 examples of boundary exercises15:00 people cry a LOT18:00 teaching people how to say No and Yes confidently 23:00 freedom to be yourself26:00 some clients are not in distress, others are29:00 challenges of the surrogate partner work32:00 clients may fall in love and experience an ending35:00 yes it affects how we do dating as providers39:00 your host cries again here44:00 do clients have to be attractive?47:00 how can LMFTs work with surrogate partners?53:00 on Brian’s deceased son with disabilities 58:00 life should be less painful