by Jill W. Bley & Frederick L. Peterson, Jr.

Pleasure Playbook

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• 2025 258pp paperback ISBN: 9781568872353

The main reasons so many Americans struggle with sexual health issues are (a) the lack of good, honest communication about the facts of human sexuality; (b) the suppression of effective, comprehensive sex education in school systems; and (c) the use of institutional strategies to repress the personal exploration of most all facets of human sexuality, other than reproductive heterosexuality. The Pleasure Playbook will help individuals and couples explore their bodies and the bodies of their partners, both physically and emotionally. The physical play is intended to help couples and individuals push the exploration of pleasure to new dimensions. The emotional play is intended to expand the limits of emotional intimacy you can experience with yourself and with your partner. The Pleasure Playbook is designed to promote honest communication about sexuality, and to enable readers to give themselves “permission” to explore. The Pleasure Playbook is divided into 5 sections. It begins with a self-assessment of your overall sexual health. The next section is about pleasuring her and then section 3 is about pleasuring him. Section 4 is designed to help partners in pleasuring one another and the last section includes some stories about people who have put it all together. The Pleasure Playbook helps to increase your ability to have a healthy, intimate relationship with your sexuality.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

SECTION I

Let's Measure Your Sexual Mind...

Self-Assessments for Sexual Health

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Self-Assessment of Family Support for Healthy Sexual Development

Chapter 2 - Self-Assessment of Sexual Health and Well-being Satisfaction (SHAWS)

Chapter 3 - Self-Assessment of Your Big Wheel of Health and Well-being

Chapter 4 - Self-Assessment of Your Personal Sexual Values

Chapter 5 - Self-Assessment of Problematic and/or Compulsive Sexual Behavior

Chapter 6 - Sex History Questionnaire

SECTION II

All About Her

Introduction

Chapter 7 - Clinical Look . . . Let’s Look Closer

Chapter 8 - Self-Pleasuring for Her (Better Known as Masturbation)

Chapter 9 - Developing a Rich Sexual Fantasy Life

Chapter 10 - Exercises for Women to Fix Desire, Arousal, and Orgasm Problems

Chapter 11 - Female Genital Pain

Chapter 12 - Aging and Staying Sexually Healthy

SECTION III

All About Him

Introduction

Chapter 13 - Clinical Look for Men

Chapter 14 - Self-Pleasuring for Him (Better Known as Masturbation)

Chapter 15 - Developing a Rich Romantic Fantasy Life

Chapter 16 - Exercises to Fix Desire, Arousal, and Orgasm Problems

Chapter 17 - Aging and Male Sexual Health

SECTION IV

Pleasuring Together: Sexual Enrichment for Couples

Introduction

Chapter - 18 Female and Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

Chapter - 19 Communication, Communication, Communication

Chapter - 20 The Clinical Look Together

Chapter - 21 Sensual Touch

Chapter - 22 Sharing the Richness of Romantic and Sexual Fantasies

Chapter - 23 Home Play Exercises for Fixing Sexual Problems

Chapter - 24 Aging: Learning How to Enjoy Changes in Your Bodies Together

SECTION V

Putting It Into Play: Real Stories to Inspire and Instruct

Introduction

Chapter 25 - Ruth’s Story

Chapter 26 - Maria and Joe’s Story: The Trap of Unconsummated Marriage

Chapter 27 - Noreen’s Story: Finding Your Way Through the Pain

Chapter 28 - Jeremy’s Story

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy

Appendix B: Sexual Side Effects of Medications

REFERENCES AND HELPFUL RESOURCES

About the Authors

Jill W. Bley, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice. She received her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati in 1980. She was affiliated with the University of Cincinnati as an adjunct associate professor of psychology from 1982 until 1994. During that time she taught sex therapy to graduate students in psychology. She was a founder of Women Helping Women/Rape Crisis Center in Cincinnati in 1972. Dr. Bley became certified as a sex therapist in 1982 and a sex therapy supervisor in 1988 by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She authored a column entitled “Speaking of Sex” which was published in the Cincinnati Downtowner newspaper from 1989 until 2002. She is a co-editor and author of Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Sexual Health (2007), co-author of The Gender Revolution & New Sexual Health (2020), and co-editor of Sex and Gender: Current Clinical Concepts and Practices (2023). She received the Distinguished Alumnae Award presented by the University of Cincinnati Alumni Association for Friends of Women’s Studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

Frederick L. Peterson, Jr., PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and sexual health specialist who was the last Clinical Fellow trained at the famous Masters and Johnson Institute (which served as the historical basis for the SHOWTIME series, Masters of Sex). He worked extensively as a change agent within the Department of Veterans Affairs (as Director of Medical Education and the Director of a Psychology Internship) and as clinical faculty for the Psychology Residency with the 88th Medical Operations Readiness Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center. He holds academic appointments at the Department of Specialty Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University as well as Wright State University’s School of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry). He has co-authored or co-edited four books on sexual health topics, including the 2020 college textbook, The Gender Revolution & New Sexual Health (Cognella Academic Press) and Sex and Gender: Current Clinical Concepts and Practices (Professional Resource Press, 2023). He has served as Behavioral Health Consultant for integrated medicine at the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center and Kansas City University. He is currently a Behavioral Health Psychologist at Community Health Centers of Greater Dayton and conducts a private practice in Southwest Ohio which includes court evaluations. He promotes and researches programs for risk reduction for at-risk mothers and family-centered perinatal interventions. Finally, he is an enthusiast for bee keeping, civil liberties, and democracy in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He can be contacted at [email protected] or through his website: Doc-pete.com.

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