The Sessions

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Movie 2012 95 min

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.

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Provisional estimate — not yet fully analyzed. 14 (BR)

Likely present: Sexual contentRomance & relationshipsHeavy emotional content

The synopsis explicitly addresses the exploration of sexuality by a disabled person and involvement with a sex surrogate, indicating a strong presence of sexual content, romance, and heavy emotional themes.

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