By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Oscar-tipped movie The Sessions features the true story of a sex therapist who helps a polio-crippled man experience sex before he dies, and now several real-life "sex surrogates" have shared experiences about their controversial profession, and Breaking Celebrity News has all the details.

In a private clinic close to Manhattan’s Central Park West, Fern Arden is a sex therapist who treats clients suffering with psychosexual problems.

It’s her female staff, known as "surrogate partners," that give their clients training in caressing techniques, kissing, feeling relaxed with another person in the nude and the sex act itself, according to an eye-opening report in the New York Post.

"The focus is not sex, but familiarity and intimacy. We provide an environment, not for sexual pleasure, but for sexual learning," Arden revealed.

"People tend to be ill-informed about what a surrogate partner does. They think of it pejoratively, the same as a sex worker, but it’s not.

"Just as you have legitimate massage therapists and people who run massage parlors, there is a huge difference between them."

For the privilege of not coming across like Steve Carell in The 40-Year Old Virgin, Arden charges $3,000 and $5,000 for a course ranging between 12 to 15 lessons.

Arden is a hands-on boss, she takes part in the sessions too.

Arden is one of 30 sex surrogates registered in the U.S. under the International Professional Surrogates Association. To qualify, you must complete a two-week training pro