ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of using an online educational resource that presents research-informed strategies for women’s pleasure, OMGyes.com, as a resource to empower women to broaden the ways in which they understand, advocate for, and enjoy sexual pleasure. A cohort of 870 adult women was given access to OMGyes.com and asked to explore the resource over a four-week period and complete online pre/post questionnaires. Participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the relatability, usefulness, and functionality of OMGyes.com. We observed statistically significant, large effect size increases in participants’ knowledge about their own pleasure preferences, their confidence and positivity about that knowledge, as well as how pleasurable their sexual experiences were during both masturbation and partner sex. Many participants reported that after using OMGyes.com they felt more motivated to explore their preferences and more confident to explain their preferences to their partners. Our data suggest that OMGyes.com may be useful for positively impacting how women think about sexual pleasure, how they understand their own specific preferences, how they advocate for what they enjoy with partners, and how they actually experience pleasure.

摘要

本研究的目的是评估使用在线教育资源的可接受性、可行性和初步效果，倡导并享受性快感。一组 870 名成年女性被授予访问 OMGyes.com 的权限，并被要求在 4 周内探索该资源并完成在线前/后问卷调查。参与者对 OMGyes.com 的相关性、实用性和功能性表示高度满意。我们观察到参与者对他们自己的快乐偏好的了解、他们对这些知识的信心和积极性的知识显着增加，效果显着增加，以及他们在手淫和伴侣性行为期间的性经历有多愉快。许多参与者报告说，在使用 OMGyes.com 后，他们感到更有动力去探索自己的喜好，并且更有信心向合作伙伴解释自己的喜好。我们的数据表明，OMGyes.com 可能有助于积极影响女性对性快感的看法、她们如何理解自己的特定偏好、她们如何倡导与伴侣一起享受的事物以及她们实际体验快感的方式。