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Book SynopsisBased on popular essays in New York Times’ Modern Love and Salon, as well as an Off-Broadway one-person play, The Pleasure Plan is 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 with Laura Zam, who suffered the blame, 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, Zam was determined to finally fix her sensual self.
The Pleasure Plan is what happened when she decided to challenge her hopeles
Trade Review"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 Zam’s 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“Laura’s 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
