Join us in welcoming author, speaker, certified trauma professional, and sexuality educator Laura Zam as she discusses her sexual healing odyssey The Pleasure Plan with sexuality educator Justyn Hintze!
This event will be held in-person at Lost City Books and is limited to 30 attendees. Masks will be required during the event.
About The Pleasure Plan:
Based 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 hopelessness. In partnership with her initially reluctant husband, she visited 15 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.
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Laura Zam is an author, speaker, certified trauma professional, and sexuality educator whose work focuses on sexual healing and preventing violation. Her writing appears in The New York Times, Salon, The Huffington Post, and The Forward as well as in seven book anthologies.
In 2013, Laura’s one-person play about healing in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse, Married Sex, was presented at the New York International Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway (United Solo). Other one-person plays, keynotes, and speeches have been presented at The Kennedy Center, the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, The National Theatre, Columbia University, American Psychological Association, and many other venues in the U.S. and abroad. Media outlets that have covered Zam’s work include NPR, The Washington Post, PBS, The Huffington Post, The Guardian UK, The Prague Post, and others.
Justyn Hintze (she/her pronouns) is an advocate for breaking binaries, and just breaking stereotypes. She has an MEd in Human Sexuality from Widener University, and is a sexologist, educator, writer, pleasure revolutionary, and public speaker. Justyn is passionate about eliminating discrimination, and creating safer spaces to foster open, raw conversations. Chair of the Board for the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, and a sexuality educator and curriculum writer at Lotus Blooms, Justyn advocates for age-appropriate, medically accurate, pleasure-based comprehensive sex ed. A sexuality coach and consultant, Justyn has sat on the Board of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and as a Board Committee Member for AASECT's Advocacy Committee. She is also Director of Women Who Tech, championing women in technology and helping to fund women-led startups globally, and is Senior Strategist at Rad Campaign.
Justyn facilitates panels and workshops about social media, pitching investors, social justice, and sexual health nationwide, and has been featured or quoted in publications including Cosmopolitan, Technical.ly, Ms. Magazine, Nonprofit Business Advisor, Bust Magazine, etc.
The Pleasure Plan is available at Lost City Books!