1st Edition
Enhancing Pleasure for Gay Men A Clinical Guide for Healing and Acceptance Through Better Sex
Introduction
1. The Unique Role Sex Has Played for Gay Men
2. Myths About Gay Men and Sex
3. Assessment for Sexual and Medical Issues
4. Mental and Sexual Health Issues
5. Body Issues
6. Anxiety
7. Depression and Substance Abuse
8. Intimacy Issues
9. Hookup Apps
10. Sexuality Assessment: Conversations to Have with Gay Men
11. Medical and Physiological Interventions
12. Healing Developmental Issues and Improving Sexual Experiences
13.Clearing Up Body Misconceptions and Enhancing Pleasure
14. Managing Anxiety and Increasing Sexual Enjoyment
15. Decreasing Depression and Substance Reliance and Increasing Pleasure
16. Improving Intimacy
17. Safely Navigating Hookup Apps
18. Further Methods to Increase Pleasure
Biography
Israel Martinez (he/him) has his doctorate in clinical sexology and is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and supervisor. He has been working with gay men clinically for over 15 years and is the author of Helping Gay Men Find Love.
“Enhancing Pleasure for Gay Men provides a sure-to-be-indispensable guide with a pleasure-centered ethos that is steeped in intersectional approaches and social justice methods. It not only raises awareness of specific issues of vital concerns to gay male clients, but also provides ethical and effective resources and tools to enhance clinical practice and promote greater empathic attunement.”
Lucie Fielding, PhD, author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments
“In a nonjudgmental, respectful and non-pathologizing way, Martinez explains the unique role sex has played for gay men. Not only does he offer numerous strategies for resolving specific sexual issues, he postulates that sex can heal larger 'developmental, attachment and systems' issues for gay men. Thus, this clinical guide is thoroughly sex positive!”
Gil Tunnell, PhD, co-author of Couple Therapy with Gay Men
“In Enhancing Pleasure for Gay Men, Israel has provided a comprehensive, candid, clinically-sound, and practical framework that informs and invites clinicians to more effectively help gay male clients work on their complicated and misunderstood relationship to pleasure so they can feel free to have more pleasurable sex.”
Buck Dodson, LCSW, creator and host of Gay Men’s Life Lab
