The Pleasure Plan: One Woman's Search for Sexual Healing

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Based on popular essaysin New York TimesModern Loveand Salon, as wellas an Off-Broadway one-person play,The Pleasure Planis a sexual healing odyssey, a manifesto for women to claim pleasure as a priority, and a love story all at once.

Fifty percent of adult women have some form of sexual dysfunction at some point of their lives, preventing them from enjoying vibrant, soul-satisfying sex. Such was the case withLauraZam, who suffered theblame, shame, and embarrassment of feeling bedroom broken.

For her, delving between the sheets meant physical pain, zero desire, and emotional scars from being molested in her early years. However, in her late forties, after meeting and marrying the love of her life,Zamwas determined to finallyfix her sensual self.

The Pleasure Planis what happened when she decided to challenge her hopelessness. In partnership with her initially reluctant husband, she visited15 healers and tried 30 pleasure-enhancing methods: from dilators and dildos, to hypnosis and hosting a sex brunch, to cleansing chakras, to making love to her husband in front of a geriatric Tantric goddess.

Packed with humor, heart, and a healthy dose of prescriptive advice, this book chroniclesZams insights as she confronts many issuesfrom mismatched libidos tofemale erection enlightenment. Throughout this journey,she and her husband grow as individuals and as a couple, both in and out of the bedroom.

Fearlessly honest and full of inspiration,Zampeels back the layersor coversand exposes her foibles, insecurities, and eventual wisdom as she excavatespast traumas, accepts and embraces her worth, and claims her right to be completely alive.

Today,Lauraworks asa sexuality educator, wellness coach, and speaker helping other women who suffer from sexual dysfunction, the effects of trauma, or those who would simply like more pleasure (of all kinds) in their lives. She also consults with health care providers so they may better assist their clients in achieving sexual well-being.

WhileThe Pleasure PlanisZams personal narrative, it demystifiespervasive taboos, encouraging women to make pleasure a priority, while teaching themhow to claim (or reclaim) the power of their sexual selves.It also shows men how they cansupport their partners in this #Metoo era.

Healthy, sultry intimacy is a right; it is time for women to learnthrough glorious trial and errorhow to embrace the sensual side of themselves. . . exuberantly and unabashedly.

Reviews

"Zam is funny, smart, and one hell of an educator. I commend her for sharing her own experience and writing a book about pleasure for women. All women need a Pleasure Plan.

Betty Dodson, PhD, sexologist, Netflix Sex Educator, bestselling author of Sex for One
Laura Zams work is passionate, witty, psychologically astute, and filled with wisdom and good healing karma."

Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Unhooked and Five Men Who Broke My Heart
In each of us, there is a quiet, bright voice, insisting on a life of pleasure and aliveness. This is the voice Laura uses to write this book along with some wicked humor."

LiYana Silver, coach and author of Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman
Lauras healing is beautifully woven together in this memoir using humor and wit. So many people need to read this book to increase sex education, awareness, and hope for more pleasure in their life.

Rachel S. Rubin, MD,urologist, sexual medicine specialist, national health advocate
Reading The Pleasure Plan feels like going on the ride with Zam and exiting the off-ramp wiser, much more hopeful, and, above all, more human.

Rosalyn Dischiavo, author of The Deep Yes, The Lost Art of True Receiving, founder of Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment
"An empowering journey helping women navigate their bodies, their bedrooms, and their health. Gorgeously told.

Nina Lorez Collins, author of What Would Virginia Woolf Do, founder of The Woolfer

Author Bio

LauraZamis a Sexuality Educator, Certified Trauma Professional, wellness trainer, award-winning solo performer,HuffPost blogger, TEDx speaker, and workshop leader, whose work focuses on sexual healing.

Her writing appears in The New York Times (Modern Love), Salon, HuffPost, SheKnows, NextTribe, the Forward, in international journals, and in five book anthologies.

Her solo pieces have been performed in New York at The International Fringe Festival, The Public Theatre, the United Solo Festival (Off-Broadway), and others. National venues include The Kennedy Center,The National Theatre, andthe U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well theaters, conferences, schools, libraries, and universities across the U.S. and abroad.Laurahas been awarded numerous grants, including a Tennessee William's Fellowship and five Artist grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has also taught at a number of universities including Brown University and UC Berkeley.