Jenny Block Releases 'Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex'

EDGE contributor Jenny Block releases "The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex: All You Need to Know About Masturbation" through Cleis Press. The noted sexuality writer and popular advice columnist's newest offering discusses how to take female masturbation to the next level, with advice on how to pleasure yourself masterfully.

"Pleasure is our right, and self-care is our responsibility," said Block. "That's why masturbation is so very important. I am so thrilled to be able to share this book with women who are ready to take care of themselves in the simplest and most profound of ways, while taking their sex lives to the next level. May is National Masturbation Month, so it's the perfect time to empower yourself and tap into the secret to conquering the world -- solo sex and self-love!"

"Masturbation is a many-splendored thing, but even here, all of us can get into a comfortable rut," reads the book description. "Take what can be really good, to really great, with Jenny Block's guide to getting in on with yourself. Whether you are happily coupled, on your own, poly, or demonstrating your solo skills for your lover(s), Block has the very best advice... Replete with thorough research, Block's book covers the science of sex, wild and wonderful ideas for upping the masturbation ante, and lots of suggestions for how to incorporate toys. 'The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex' makes its entry as an instant classic, showing readers how to go from mundane to mind-blowing."

Block will be celebrating her book launch with the public at Good Vibrations in San Francisco May 15, and Pleasure Chest in Chicago May 22 and 23. Additional stops on her book tour will be announced via her site and social media accounts; to keep up to date on her appearances, follow Block on Twitter and Facebook.

Block is the author of "O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm" and "Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage" (Lambda Literary Award 2008). A monthly columnist for the Dallas Voice, "Girl on Girls," she writes for a wide variety of publications and websites, including Playboy.com, AskMen.com, huffingtonpost.com, yourtango.com, edgedallas.com, and TheDailyMeal.com. Her essay "And Then We Were Poly" is included in Rebecca Walker's book, "One Big Happy Family," which received a starred review from Kirkus. Jenny's essay "On Being Barbie" is included in book "It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters."

Block has appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, including "Nightline," "Fox and Friends," "The Glenn Beck Show," "The Tyra Banks Show," "Good Morning Texas," "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet," FoxNews.com, Playboy Radio, "The Alan Colmes Show," "The Young Turks," and BBC Radio.

Block's work has been discussed by a variety of publications and sites both nationally and internationally, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Glamour, Marie Claire, Curve, Observer UK, Maxi (Germany), Psychologies (UK), Playgirl, NPR's Morning Edition, The New York Times, feministing.com, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, 2: The Magazine for Couples (Canada), wow-womenonwriting.com, and the Baltimore City Paper.

Holding both her BA and her MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and having taught college composition for nearly ten years, Block has also spoken in bookstores and other venues all across the country, including Georgetown University and The Science Museum of Virginia, as well as on Olivia Travel cruises on Holland America Cruise Lines.

Of Block, the Huffington Post writes, "It would be enough if Jenny Block's writing just tackled tough, important topics like sexuality, sex, and feminism as brilliantly as it does, but when you factor in her wicked sense of humor and her ability to disarm the dummies of the world, you suddenly realize exactly how genius her work really is."