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What is OMGYES?

OMGYES is an ongoing effort to explore sexual pleasure through groundbreaking research that’s told through the real-life experiences of women of all ages and life stages.

Many therapists and clinicians find it to be a valuable resource they can recommend to clients so they can better understand and advocate for what they want, develop a shared language, and gain evidence-based, highly specific & practical sexual knowledge.

How AASECT members are using OMGYES

“I think OMGYes offers beautifully made specific information for sexual pleasure. It fills a gap, starts a conversation and answers questions. Very helpful.”

Amy B.

“While I've found OMGYES to be incredibly helpful with my female patients who want to deepen their experience of self-pleasure, I've also found that the site is very useful for couples as well. I often assign OMGYES as part of a homework assignment for couples who want to learn and improve their approach to pleasuring and being pleasured. In addition to offering practical advice and help with behavioral changes in a couples sex life, the site also stimulates important conversations in the therapy office that lead to a deeper clinical relationship.”

Ian K.

“As a relationship and sex therapist, I often have clients come to me with varying levels of awareness of their bodies. OMGYes is a safe, helpful resource with advice, examples, and demonstrations of how to experience pleasure in their own skin. I like to refer them to the website, let them poke around a little bit and then refer them to specific resources on the site that could help them develop skills in the areas in which we are working!”

Leighanna N.

“I specialize in working with vulva owners who experience pain upon penetration, and they often express not knowing how to connect to their bodies again after having such awful pain. Using OMGYES as a supplemental treatment suggestion helps my clients with examples of how to re-engage with pleasure in a safe way. Plus it helps couples put into words things they've wanted to be able to express but aren't sure how. OMGYES fills in a lot of gaps in adult sex education!”

Kayna C.

“I LOVE OMGYes! It’s the only site I know of that really gives comprehensive education to vulva owners about how to masturbate. It’s detailed, graphic (not porny), tender and vulnerable with a twist of humor. It’s accessible, user-friendly, and research-based. (Aren’t we done with myths about women, sex, and masturbation?)”

Christina M.

“OMGYES is great. Most women I’ve worked with have been hesitant to try it at first. Once they have signed up, however, they’ve all told me they wished they knew about OMGYES sooner! It’s an excellent tool that allows clients to explore sexual pleasure in their own bodies on their own time in between sessions.”

Lori O.

Brand New Research

In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute, we’ve conducted thousands of in-depth interviews and the first-ever large-scale, peer-reviewed and published studies about techniques for women’s pleasure.

What we found was that there are shared insights and techniques that enhance pleasure for the vast majority of women. We made OMGYES to share these insights with the world in a way that’s personal and practical.

Through Each Round Of Our Quantitative And Qualitative Research, We Explore:

The specific physical, mental and communication techniques that work for women

The most impactful discoveries and breakthroughs in women’s sexual journeys

What we have discovered

While sexual pleasure is deeply personal, there are actually many similarities and patterns in the techniques and insights that lead to more sexual pleasure for women

A set of comfortable, descriptive words that let people identify and talk about the techniques

More than 25 techniques in Seasons 1 & 2 such as Layering and Broadening have emerged as strategies that enhance female pleasure for large percentages of women

Introducing Season 3: Techniques with Toys. Season 3 is packed with surprisingly simple ways to get more pleasure from any kind of toy, solo and with a partner

A Binge to Broaden Minds

Most online education feels like work and most entertainment binges don’t leave you wiser and better informed.

OMGYES is designed to be exciting and engaging so you want to keep watching, but what you discover is also extremely rewarding for your life, mind, and relationship. Studies show using OMGYES gives users lasting positive effects:

A new language for what they find pleasurable

More confidence guiding partners

Physical pleasure experiences that feel fresh and new

Higher relationship closeness outside of the bedroom

More body positivity

Re-awakened curiosity about their own (and their partner's) pleasure

...and lots more

What's Inside The Resource

OMGYES.com is an open, honest, evidence-based look at what feels good and why. We bring our research findings to life through animated diagrams, data visualizations, show-and-tell videos, and more.

OMGYES has released three collections of what we intend to be an ever-growing resource for sexual discovery and exploration. All collections offer:

Disarmingly Honest Short Videos

where real people (not actors) share their experiences and perspectives. These feel authentic and personal because they are. We created them from full-day conversational interviews with volunteers who passionately believe that by openly sharing their truths, they can help end today’s societal taboos.

Layering

Indirect pleasure through surrounding skin

Avoiding the direct route

We know we don’t need to tell you this, but the clit is super sensitive. Often what feels best is to avoid touching the exposed part and move the layers of skin around it, instead.

The skin works sort of like a soft blanket—you move the blanket and the blanket nudges the clit and that feels pretty darn nice. There are lots of ways to do it - and they each feel very different.

Excerpt from the Layering chapter of OMGYES.com

Putting Pressure and Location Together

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Pressure Gliding 1 in 2 women
Moving Skin 1 in 3 women
Firm Massage 1 in 10 women
Location Staying Away 1 in 20 women
least intense
Staying on the Hood 1 in 2 women
Off & On 1 in 4 women
Direct Hit 1 in 4 women
most intense

Excerpt from the Layering chapter of OMGYES.com

Animated Diagrams

that zoom in on the variations of the most popular techniques that emerged from our research. These involve stimulation methods like Layering (indirect pleasure through the surrounding skin) and Shallowing (the joys of touch just inside the opening). It turns out that fine-tuning the amount of pressure applied or adjusting the location can make a world of difference when it comes to pleasure.

Data That Reveals

how normal it all is to ask for what you like or want to try. As one user said, “When I’m about to do one of the techniques or ask my partner to, and I have that moment of hesitation, it’s like I have thousands of women backing me up and encouraging me.”

Pairing

Giving the clitoris extra pleasure during penetration

18% of women have had orgasms from penetration on its own

73% have orgasms with clitoral stimulation at the same time

40% of women went for years thinking there was something wrong with them because they didn't orgasm from just penetration

Excerpt from the Pairing chapter of OMGYES.com

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Diana shows her style of Double Circles

Excerpt from the Orbiting chapter of OMGYES.com

Show-and-Tell Videos

where women talk viewers through the specifics of feel-good techniques as they show exactly what they mean on their own bodies. Many of these discoveries only really become clear when one actually sees them, up close.

Some Techniques You'll Discover

Some of the Many Techniques You'll Discover

Use them all, solo or with a partner

Chilling

Ways that cold enlivens pleasure

Wrapping

Using a layer of fabric to enhance vibrations

Layering

Indirect pleasure through surrounding skin

Signaling

Styles of giving and receiving feedback

Shallowing

The joys of touch just inside the opening

Angling

Adjusting the angle of penetration for more pleasure

Grinding on Toys

Moving the body against the toy

Levering

Pleasure from pushing on the vaginal walls

Surprise

Defying expectation to enhance pleasure

Orbiting

The many ways of circling the clit

Pairing

Giving the clitoris extra pleasure during penetration

G-Regions

Finding new kinds of pleasure behind the walls

Chilling

Ways that cold enlivens pleasure

Wrapping

Using a layer of fabric to enhance vibrations

Grinding on Toys

Moving the body against the toy

Levering

Pleasure from pushing on the vaginal walls

Layering

Indirect pleasure through surrounding skin

Signaling

Styles of giving and receiving feedback

Surprise

Defying expectation to enhance pleasure

Orbiting

The many ways of circling the clit

Shallowing

The joys of touch just inside the opening

Angling

Adjusting the angle of penetration for more pleasure

Pairing

Giving the clitoris extra pleasure during penetration

G-Regions

Finding new kinds of pleasure behind the walls

Whats Next?

We are just beginning to identify the how’s and why’s behind sexual pleasure and are currently researching and making resources focused on other historically neglected topics, including:

  • Pleasure during pregnancy, postpartum and in menopause
  • Exploring and re-discovering pleasure after trauma/abuse
  • Pleasure for men/people with penises
  • Gender-diverse and trans pleasure

Who Uses OMGYES and How?

People with Vulvas use the site to find words for what they like, ways to adjust what they like to be even more pleasurable, and new things they didn’t even know they’d like.

Couples, Together, watch OMGYES like they’d watch a show together, as a touchstone of mutual curiosity, exploration and inspiration to make a great thing even better.

Men and Partners use the site to gain unfiltered insight into the range of ways to give pleasure, read signals and empathize with their partners.

Anyone Curious about the latest science of pleasure watches OMGYES like one heck of an interactive nature documentary.

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