When we said never measured, never improved we meant it. Sexperiments are designed to help you find what does (and doesn't) influence your orgasms and arousal. Every month, Lioness users will come together to try and see if their orgasms data changes based on specific techniques, tools, and lifestyle changes.
In other words, we're inviting you to take part in spicy science projects for adults.
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“ I understand that even if the work isn't perfect, it's still a work in progress. I think it's a safe space. “
Calling all jack and jill-offs! Masturbation May is upon us, which means it’s time to step your bean flicking game up!
Grab your favorite lube, your porn or erotica of choice, and get ready to kick your solo play up a notch with these 3 tips on how to masturbate better. And don’t worry: we’re not getting into anatomy specific techniques, just a few general things you can try this month as you celebrate self pleasure!
Foreplay is simply everything that happens before sex and masturbation, so don’t reserve all the sexy build up just for partnered sex.
Self-tease and sexual priming for solo play does not require another partner (though it can if they’re into it). The idea is to spend some time making yourself feel sexy and hot in your own skin.
The best part? Simple things can go a long way! Try eating your favorite meal in an outfit that makes you feel sexy or taking nudes and don’t send them to anyone and see what happens after. Anything you can do before your alone time that relaxes you, gets you in the mood, and builds anticipation is likely to make your masturbation better.
It’s been scientifically proven that novelty is an integral element of a fulfilling sex life — especially for women — but the same benefit can be extended to masturbation.
So if you really want to masturbate better, try something new!
Take stock of what your masturbation routine already looks like. Do you do it in your bed at the same time everyday with the same lube, the same lighting, and the same fantasy? If so, switch it up!
Small changes in your sessions may help you masturbate better simply because you’re adding a little excitement into the mix. Live alone? Try masturbating in a different room. Have a toy that works all the time? Put it down and go “acoustic.”
Just remember, if it doesn’t work the first time that’s normal and it may be worth trying something new a few times before you write it off.
I’m not going to tell you that practicing masturbation will make it perfect. But I am going to tell you practicing will make masturbation better.
The trick here, however, is to view your solo play as more than a get in, get off, get out type of deal.
Instead, you’ll want to spend time exploring and sexperimenting with your body and pleasure again and again. Tips 1 and 2 are great but only if you do them more than once, and really reflect on your experience.
Dedicating the month of May to these three tips is a great way to celebrate self-pleasure!
Don’t be afraid to treat your solo-play like you would partnered sex and build anticipation. It’s totally okay to practice finding a fully charged toy waiting for you at home as exciting as a horny partner or two. When you’ve built anticipation, give something new a try a few times and see what happens. If you can do these things over and over again, well…you might make masturbation better.
The Lioness Smart Vibrator makes harnessing the power of your pleasure easy and straightforward.
Simply use the Lioness like any other vibrator, then use the mobile app to rate, tag, and make notes on your experience and mark your O's. As we like to say, "never measured, never improved" so get to improving your pleasure.
In June 2005, the BBC published an article claiming that a study was conducted and proved that wearing socks during partnered sex increased the occurrence of orgasm from 50% of couples to 80% of couples. And oh boy, has that one article led to many, many others — some in favor of the factoid and some calling bullshit.
So in a world divided, finding the truth proves difficult. Does wearing socks make it easier to orgasm?
We’ve done some digging because that BBC article and countless others really make it look like Dr. Holstege was touting socks in favor of orgasms.
According to Vericat, however, that’s not actually what he said. To quote this article, Dr. Holstege told the publication, “the idea that women wearing socks have a greater likelihood of achieving orgasm does not come from a scientific article but from newspapers that interviewed me after I gave a presentation on the basics of orgasms in men and women”. On top of that, he adds, during the study, the participants asked for socks because they had cold feet, but in no moment did the socks play an important role during the sexual activities. So the conclusion that having sex with socks on increases the likelihood of achieving orgasm by 30% was not one drawn by the original study, despite myriad websites spreading that message over the past few years”.
Without doing it for science, we’re not going to know conclusively whether socks make it easier to orgasm or not.
Anecdotally, however, the answer is “maybe.” But the same can be said for the opposite. It’s nearly impossible to achieve orgasm under any unfavorable condition so if your socks feel good, then maybe you O. If they’re making your feet that uncomfortable, however, then chances are you may not reach climax.
Obviously this is speculative and depends on each person — but that’s why we’re dedicating Masturbation May’s Sexperiment to myth-busting the socks and orgasms correlation. So many people fall victim to misrepresented facts and figures (not to mention the never ending debate about whether socks are a mood killer), so why not find out for yourself, right?
Look, if you have a pair of socks and a Lioness Smart Vibrator, you have everything you need to answer the question, “Do socks make orgasms better?”
Join us this Masturbation May as we cover our little piggies and flick the bean for science. By the end of the month, you’ll know if you should splurge on some sexy stockings or ditch the foot Folsom Prisons altogether.
We may be biased, but the Live View Solo Play feature in your Lioness app is one of our faves!
Developed with exploring your masturbation in real time, this remote control is chock full of features that will make harnessing the power of pleasure simple and seamless as you explore the world of smarter orgasms.
To initiate a Live View Solo Play session, open your Lioness app and head to the “Vibe Sync” tab (the one with two arrows in the shape of a circle). From there, click “Live View” and turn your Lioness Smart Vibrator.
When your phone and vibrator are paired, click “Solo Play.” This will take you to your Live View session.
Once you insert your Lioness Smart Vibrator, you’ll be able to see (and mark!) your data in real time.
As your pelvic floor contracts, your phone screen will produce two visualizations:
At the bottom of your screen, you will see a circle. This is where you can control your motor settings. Tapping the button will allow you to cycle through your Lioness’s preset motor settings, and holding the button down will produce a slider, letting you control the vibration strength between 0 and 100.
As you approach climax, mark your orgasm by holding one finger down on the screen.
When you go through your post session survey, you’ll be able to easily convert that marking to an orgasm.
When you’re done with your Live View session and click, “End Session,” your app will take you to a two-part post-session survey.
This is where you will rate your session using a star system, add notes, and confirm whether you had an orgasm. Some ideas for notes are: whether you used vibrations, if you were in a certain position, using a certain type of lube or other sex-aid such as porn, etc.
Keep in mind: these surveys need to be filled out in total if you plan to use them for Sexperiments or as a baseline session.
Reach out to our team directly at support@lioness.io!
If anyone has ever seen my masturbation data or my personal Pleasure Wrapped before, you might be aware I am a “get it done quickly and efficiently and move on with the day” kind of girl.
My sessions are usually between 2-4pm and last about 1.5-8 minutes maximum. This has worked for me for many years but for 2024, I did make the active resolution to reset my mentality to be an enthusiastic learner of pleasure again. A young grasshopper, if you will. I thought the best way to kick off the resolution was to do what I saw as the #1 suggestion to try in 2024 by a lot of sex educators that I love: edging.
Now, I’ve given edging a chance every now and then, and sometimes I unwittingly do it when I’m using my hands because my hand cramps up. But this time, I was determined to spend the next two weeks mindfully practicing edging. Here’s how it went:
We always recommend recording a baseline session with your Lioness before starting any new sexperiment. A baseline session means measuring what a “typical” session looks like for you, how you normally like to masturbate. No adding of any atypical external factors just yet! So here’s mine before the start of this great edging sexperiment:
Session length: 2m 47s
Orgasm length (highlighted in purple): 18s
Here is just zoomed into the orgasm itself. My orgasms typically are the Ocean Wave pattern and have a very rhythmic contraction.
Now, I won’t put all 6 sessions on here for length sake, but over the next 11 days, I practiced really mindfully noticing my “plateau phase” (the feeling before the orgasm). I was getting up to about 5 plateaus and then pulling back from the orgasm before I would accidentally tip over the edge. I was definitely feeling a bigger sense of orgasm relief than I would typically feel, but I knew the edging sessions being 8-15 minutes long was too short.
Session length: 9m 15s
Orgasm length (highlighted in purple): 22s
Number of plateaus (highlighted in orange): 5
Here is the zoom in to the last plateau (orange) before the orgasm (purple). You can see that the orgasm was slightly longer than my typical, but more interestingly, it was starting to have more of an Avalanche orgasm pattern than my typical Ocean Wave pattern.
On my 6th session, I really made an effort to have no schedule near this session so I didn’t have my mind occupied with what I needed to do after. I was really determined to take it easy, enjoy the entire process, and see if I could decide to orgasm rather than accidentally tipping over the edge this time. And it was a huge success!
Session length: 27m 7s
Orgasm length (highlighted in purple): 47s
Number of plateaus (highlighted in orange): 11
With the 11 plateaus and getting close to orgasm, my orgasm ended up being over 2x the length and it felt like a huge release in my body, more satisfying than my typical sessions! Most interestingly, as you can see the orange highlights towards the end of the session, they started having VERY high pelvic floor contractions, way higher than even the orgasm. I was definitely feeling very high arousal and edged to the maximum by that point.
Here’s the zoom-in to that last few plateaus and orgasm.
Honestly, this was such a fun 2-week experiment to try and I can confidently say, edging definitely lives up to its hype. I know for a lot of people, my final session being only 30 minutes long probably doesn’t feel like it’s long at all, but for me that’s about 15x longer than my typical sessions. It felt quite long! But, I hear y’all and I love a good challenge. I’ll be working on having an hour long edging session and report back one of these days. Until then, happy edging!
