Research at OMGYES
Advancing the fields of sexuality, intimacy, and flourishing
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Our contribution to the field
For generations, specifics of pleasure and intimacy were written off as “too individual” to study. The common refrain was that “everyone’s different.”
Our research shows otherwise: There are clear, valuable patterns in how people find pleasure and build closeness.
By capturing and naming those patterns, we make discoveries visible, shareable, and usable for the first time.
Our methodologies
We use a multi-stage approach to uncover, organize, and share discoveries about intimacy and pleasure:

Qualitative discovery
Interviews and surveys with tens of thousands of people about the ways they create closeness and pleasure.

Pattern recognition
Identifying common strategies and giving them clear, usable names.

Quantitative validation
Nationally representative surveys in collaboration with academic partners.

Translation into resources people actually use
Real people sharing relatable experiences of each insight, statistics that normalize, and animations and activities that make each nuance easy to see and apply.
Efficacy research & iteration
Follow-up studies measuring ways the resource actually changes people and how to improve it.
One month after binge-watching OMGYES, people in an IU School of Medicine study had:
💬More understanding of what they find pleasurable
💥New types of sensation
💏Closer relationships
🤸More body positivity
🫱🏽🫲🏻More comfort guiding partners
😯Re-awakened curiosity about their (& their partner’s) bodies
Selected publications
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.Women’s Experiences With Genital Touching, Sexual Pleasure, and Orgasm.Herbenick, D., Fu, T. J., Arter, J., Sanders, S. A., & Dodge, B. (2018).
Journal of Sex Research.“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure.Hensel, D. J., von Hippel, C., Sandidge, R., Lapage, C., Zelin, N., & Perkins, R. (2021).
PLOS ONE.Women’s Techniques For Making Vaginal Penetration More Pleasurable.Hensel, D., von Hippel, C., Lapage, C., & Perkins, R. (2021).
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