Sexual Surrogacy and the Projected Image

This Friday the movie "The Sessions" (which screened at Sundance under the title "The Surrogate") opens in theaters. It's based on an article the journalist and poet Mark O'Brien wrote called "On Seeing a Surrogate". The article documented his experience seeing a sexual surrogate and it was amazingly frank and complicated piece of non-fiction.

I haven't seen the film yet. I was initially skeptical given Hollywood's track record at representing disability, and I've been annoyed by the marketin...