Resisting the pressure to become a surrogate: a case study.

Masters and Johnson's discussion of their surrogate program and informal interviews with surrogates reveal that the surrogate role is stressful. The surrogate hopes to bypass explosive relationship issues in order to lower the patient's level of tension. Such bypassing is difficult, sometimes impossible, and of limited therapeutic value. An alternative tactic has been developed for Individual Sex Therapy and is exemplified by a case study. The case described involves an involuntary ejaculator who tried to sidestep the pressure that he felt from relationships in general. This case exemplifies the pressure in the Individual Sex Therapy situation, how the surrogate approach attempts unsuccessfully to bypass this pressure, and the processes by which the pressure can be countered.