12 Masturbation Techniques
What do 2000 women have in common? Many things, of course, 12 masturbation techniques included.
Index:
Why 12 techniques
The most used
Where you can learn
Why do you need more than one technique
I’m totally not a fan of the “How-to” or “The Top 5 Ways To” approach when it comes to sex, because sex is way more than just a performance and, most importantly, there is not magic formula that will work with everybody. When it comes to sex, there is a whole world of sensations to discover, rather than instructions to put in place.
Why 12 techniques?
But 12 techniques are certainly a wide enough range of possibilities to not be classified into the “Instruction Manual” approach, plus the goal of the whole thing is to get women talking about masturbation and sharing ideas on how they do it.
A few years ago, the first biggest research on female pleasure, focusing on masturbation, was completed by the Kinsey Institute and Indiana University. (Thank God someone finally did it!) It’s from that research that the OMGYES project was born.
It’s a platform where women share videos about masturbation techniques; it encourages the conversation about female pleasure (practice is highly recommended too, of course!). It’s a one-time subscription and the website is very clean, female positive, and shows women of all types and ages.
The most used
The most used techniques, which are based on the classification from OMGYES are used by 8 or 9 women out of 10, and contain the following:
- Rhythm, almost a musical loop of motions
- Framing, how pleasure is mostly between the ears
- Orbiting, a million ways to circle the clit
- Signaling, giving, and reading feedback.
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The researchers found out that all the various, amazing, creative and effective masturbation techniques women were using had many movements, concepts and goals in common and they gathered them together into 12 groups. There were not even common terms to name a specific movement or technique yet! Female masturbation has been, and still is, such a taboo topic that even in science or in everyday life we have no names to identify a specific way to please ourselves! Finally all of that has come to an end.
Where you can learn
OMGYES is not the only brand offering self pleasure courses, it definitely has been the first one.
Climax is a video educational series dedicated to female pleasure; no filters, real, bright and elegant approach to 17 masturbation techniques for women. If offers three different packs for solo or couple play.
Be Educated is another video subscription platform that offers courses on how to improve your sexual life and discover pleasure, alone or with a partner. It has a more explicit and direct approach to sex.
Those platforms are great because they are opening up the conversation about female masturbation, giving women a great and comfortable way to inspire themselves and to experiment different ways to find pleasure. If I had a daughter (especially if I lived in a place where modern sex education wasn’t taught in schools), I’d definitely subscribe and give her access to some episodes.
Why do I need more than one technique?
Recently, a friend of mine asked me “Why should I care about 12 different ways to masturbate if I know one does the job? It’s kind of a miracle if I find time to please myself these days”.
That’s a great point! If you are not a young woman discovering her body, why should you change something that works and is also probably quick, pleasurable and great? What’s the plus side of those brands in that case?
It’s extremely important that we force ourselves to discover our sexuality more and more, because what we like today will definitely change in the future.
No one says you have to like each and all of the 12 ways, of course! But our bodies change not only when we age, but also, for example, when we are menstruating. Our hormones change, and even our mood influences our sex life and taste. It’s so important we don’t get our body used to just one kind of stimulation because it’ll tend to respond to just that one way, and when we change, it won’t work the same way.
(I also chatted about this with Alix Fox in my last article). Climax, OMGYES or BeEducated can help us to be creative in training our body and experiencing pleasure no matter what our age (women in the OMGYES study are 18 to 95!).
So I want to say to all women: stay curious, don’t be ashamed of pleasure, discover your body and your emotions, and share them.
Let’s spread the conversation about pleasure.