Sexuality. Optimizing orgasm, a bad idea?
When Melissa, 35, masturbates, she sometimes concludes this moment of solitary pleasure with an astonishing ritual: the examination of a strange graph, resembling an electrocardiogram or seismogram.
This is actually the data provided by his vibrator. This model, called Lioness, measures one’s level of excitement and transmits the information to the associated application.
Sensors built into the toy track the movements of her pelvic floor, and the app then produces a graph tracing each involuntary contraction and release of her pelvic muscles, in the form of dips and peaks. Melissa generally uses it in combination with other clitoral stimulators, to compare the orgasms obtained with each.
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“I mainly use the Lioness to collect data”, explains the young woman, who asked to be referred to only by her first name, out of concern for confidentiality. It is also the only connected device of this young event project manager, who does not have an Apple Watch or Fitbit. However, she appreciates“have quantifiable information to learn (to know yourself better)”.
Whether it is to count our steps – sometimes to the point of obsession – or to follow the retrospective of our musical tastes carried out by Spotify at the end of the yeartechnology is more and more present in our lives, spying on the smallest aspect of daily life.
Applied to the female orgasm, these tools could help unravel the mysteries of a phenomenon which still perplexes a certain number of scientists. Some women also turn to these connected sex toys to cope with intimate upheavals linked to menopause or polycystic ovary syndrome, for example.
Others analyze the data provided by these devices to assess the influence of certain foods or medications on their desire – and look for ways to optimize their orgasms using these connected toys equipped with Bluetooth functionality, in the I hope they will help them better understand their bodies.
“Experimentation” objects
“These are objects of ‘experimentation’, which allow you to test things alone or with others – the effects of caffeine on orgasms, for example, or those of alcohol, CBD, stress, among others” , explains Anna Lee, director and co-founder of Lioness.
She and Liz Klinger started their business about eight years ago, with
