About This Film
Festival Year: 1986
Run Time: 75 Minutes
Film Type: Feature
Animated: No
Countr(ies): USA
English Subtitles: No
Captions: None
Film Overview
This award-winning documentary presents a non-prurient and non-judgmental view of sex surrogate therapy as practiced by Maureen Sullivan, working in conjunction with her client's psychotherapists. The film records her therapy with 2 men, 25-year-old Christopher and 45-year-old John. Christopher's shyness and fear of women and sex prevented him from dating – ever. John, a high school teacher, suffered from life-long sexual dysfunction, afraid to date after his recent divorce. In addition to showing the heartening progress the men make in releasing their emotionally crippling inhibitions, the very sensitively made film reveals Maureen's problems with personal commitment in her relationships, which led her into this unusual work.