The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace

This book introduced me to a new concept.. That of a sexual Surrogate.

Now before you jump to any conclusion let me clarify whats exactly is this SS(i prefer to term that SS) .

SS are people who are under the employ of therapists and who help treat people with conjugal disorders. Mind you the patients are psychologicaly ill and have no physical disorder as such. But they lack self esteem and the like and hence visit therapists to help improve their conjugal lives.

The book starts with how Dr.Arnold Freeberg is forced to shift from Arizona to Clalifornia due to laws against SS usage even for therapy. So in He sets up a clinic and employs 4 female and one male SS.

The book goes on to describe how his favourite favourite SS cures two patients of their problems and ends up falling in love with the male SS. But mind you theere is no romance here!!!! It also decribes how a male SS cures a female patient.

And the ofcourse there is the spice of a preacher trying to term the SS practice as slandering and stuff..

How Freeberg gets out of this is what you can read to find out.

But all in all, I am not to impressed with this book. I surely do not recommend this as a "must read" . If you do not find anything else and want to read something or maybe you just are curious of what SSs do, then only pick up this book.