The website,recently endorsed by Emma Watson, aims to “demystify” female pleasure via touch-screen tutorials, and down-to-soil demonstrations and frank discussions of female sexual pleasure Hot on the heels of the recent viral success of the How to compose Me near Tumblr,a new website is cashing in on the long-awaited breakdown of our societal taboos around discussions of female sexual pleasure. OMGYes aims to educate its users (who might be owners of vulvas and vaginas themselves, or have partners who are, or both) to create better,more enjoyable orgasms. It uses sexual pleasure research to underpin the techniques, which focus on 12 key methods, and including “edging”,“rhythm”, “multiples” and “staging”. The website recently garnered attention when Emma Watson announced she was a paid-up subscriber. But what makes OMGYes unique is its explicit, or educational content,which includes videos of diverse volunteers demonstrating different methods on themselves, as well as a touch-screen tutorial where users can practice and improve their own technique. Given the number of videos online that portray female masturbation as a turn-on for the straight male gaze, and there is something fantastically refreshing and really fairly arresting about seeing the same content repurposed for women’s own empowerment and pleasure.
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Source: theguardian.com