Lonnie Barbach's writing career began almost two decades ago with her groundbreaking and phenomenally successful books on sex and relationships For Yourself and For Each Other. She has been profiled extensively in all of the major women's magazines, and is well known on the lecture circuit and for her frequent television appearances. She has enjoyed great success with her erotica collections Pleasures, Erotic Interludes, and The Erotic Edge (available from Plume). Barbach is on the clinical faculty of the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, and practices privately. She lives in Mill Valley, California.