The Sessions is a 2012 American independent drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin. It is based on an essay by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity.
O'Brien was a journalist and poet who was paralyzed neck down by polio since his childhood. O'Brien breathed with the support of an iron lung for much of his life. At age 38, he hired sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene to help him lose his virginity.
O'Brien's life was chronicled in the 1996 short documentary Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, directed by Jessica Yu, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
O'Brien also wrote about his life in the book How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence, although neither The Sessions nor Breathing Lessons is based on the book.
The film is based on an article O'Brien published about his experiences with Greene, "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate", which appeared in The Sun magazine in 1990.
http://www.thesessions.co.uk/ (Trailer and other info)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sessions_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/
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