A life made distinctive by tragedy, defined by intimacy: Rod and Anita survived the ultimate parental challenge by abolishing the boundaries of conservative closure.
A teenaged courtship, an early marriage, five years of Rod studying Chiropractic; together they ran a chiropractic clinic in the same location for twenty years. After the death of their only child, Anita’s lifelong passion for art evolved into a method of teaching that gives expression to inexperienced students and helps refine the talent of trained artists. Combining the skills of Chiropractic and Art Therapy, they took a provocative step beyond. For ten-years, they worked as Sexual Surrogates creating a private, safe and clean environment for women, men and couples to explore and define sexual fantasies.
The success of their marriage, as lovers and parents, was tested beyond limit with four miscarriages and the hiking death of their 16-year-old son. Intimacy was not destroyed by grief; instead, their sexual expression increased and became the major tool for survival. For Anita and Rod transferring grief with all its manifestations, overwhelming or minor, into sexual release occurred spontaneously.
Years later, they questioned: Why do so many shut out sex with tragedy? This universal question became a guide to research sexuality with a hands-on approach. Today, combining a ten-year odyssey of uninhibited sexual research with their unorthodox journey in search of a meaningful life after the death of an only child has become the focus of their writing, grief counseling and encouraging sexual enrichment beyond the scope of traditional therapy.
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