Effectiveness Of A Bibliotherapy Intervention For Young Adult Women'S Sexual Functioning

This study examined the effectiveness of a bibliotherapy intervention (i.e., the reading of a book) among 50 women randomized to read the book (intervention group) or wait to receive the book (wait-list control group). The book examined was "Becoming Cliterate" (Mintz, 2017) which combines feminist analysis and self-help for women's orgasm difficulties. To examine intervention effectiveness, within group standardized effect sizes with confidence limits were used. In the intervention group, small to large pretest to posttest effect sizes were found for two measures of orgasm, attitudes toward women's genitals, sexual-body esteem, self-efficacy in achieving sexual pleasure, arousal, sexual satisfaction, sexual pain, sexual assertiveness, and overall sexual functioning. A small effect size for one of the two orgasm measures was found among the control group. Implications are discussed.