These are biological diagrams that show the male and female genitalia.

Yeah.

You know I have all these, you know, for explanation and information information sometimes I have to show it to people.

This is assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Yoland Nell and this week I'm at the clinic of groundbreaking Israeli sex

therapist Ronit Aloney. You've also got some erotic artwork here.

Well I have this is positioning, sexual positioning.

We're in her small informal consultation room and there's nothing too surprising here.

She has an armchair which faces a small comfy couch for her patients.

But it's what happens in the neighbouring room that's more unusual.

In this area, which is the surrogate section, you know, it doesn't look like hotel, it looks

more like a house, like an apartment, and you know?

Just next door is this small room where you've got a

sofa bed you've got a CD player people can play their music, a small bathroom with a shower and people can get intimate.

This is where paid surrogate partners meet Ronit's patients. They help teach them how to have intimate relationships

and ultimately how to have sex. While the therapy is used around the world,

in most countries it's seen as fringe and highly controversial.

It's only in Israel that it's become mainstream, to the extent that the state covers the high

cost for soldiers with injuries affecting their sexual performance.

Connecting yourself as a human being is connecting yourself to your sexuality

and people need to feel that they can be of worth to somebody else, that they can pleasure somebody else, and then that they can get pleasure from somebody else, otherwise why they want to stay alive.

I'm in Tel Aviv looking at sexual healing for Israel's disabled war veterans and to hear

from a woman trying to convince the world that sex surrogacy works.

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