Emotional support prostitute. Yes, it is medicinal.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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Lol this would actually be legal in germany. If you are severely disabled you can get a prescription prostitute paid for by your healthcare provider. Makes sense if you ask me, everyone need some human connection.
TIL sex work is illegal in the US
Is prostitution a crime?
In the States
I said what I said
That is actually a thing and even legal in the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_partner
They help people with major sex-related problems and have literally prevented suicides.
article from the Wikipedia footnotes with a success story involving a 30 year old virgin IT guy. might be interesting for the wider lemmy userbase (affectionate) https://www.salon.com/2003/10/08/virgin_6/
Hard to believe it's legal in the US though (even the regular therapist in the article didn't believe it initially).
Do you have to like take a class or
The link explains the process. And if you are severely disabled, it might be a way for you to have an experience that every adult that wants to should be able to experience at some point in their life with a consenting partner. That is an incredible psychological tool.
Sex work is already stigmatized enough, but this isn't even sex work where an adult simply wants to pay for sex. This is sex work combined with psychotherapy designed to aid in a patient who is having severe psychological problems due to mental or physical trauma or both.
🎵 I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams
🎵 She said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down!
- Billie Joe Armstrong (above, in car) elaborating
And that's when you hear from the other seat, a voice say "quit your whining cuz it's bringing me down"
😘👌
How dare you?! That's my therapist
“I’m sorry; She’s medicinal.”
*prescription
I'm amazed autocorrect didn't catch it
I'm told that on Lemmy you can edit your headlines
Just 4 U
This was a good one, completely unexpected. Someone once emailed feedback that one of my coworkers deserved hookers and blow for doing such a great job. My blow is also prescribed, thanks.
She's actually his wife.