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.
This year, #masturbationmay is for MYTHBUSTING — and we’re putting the socks and sex rumors to the test. Grab your favorite pair of socks and get to masturbating. Before you know it, you’ll have all the data you need to finally answer, do socks make your orgasms better?
In April 2024, we launched Sexperiments — spicy science projects for adults you can access right in your Lioness mobile app. Our first Sexperiment? Edging.
Lioness users around the world delayed their orgasms to answer the age-old question: does edging really make orgasms better?
Let’s get into the Lioness data we collected.
We’re in the business of masturbating smarter, so each Sexplorer was prompted to formulate two hypotheses before beginning their Sexperiment.
Edging requires someone to get close to orgasm, stop stimulation, and then resume over and over again. Naturally, this should increase how long someone spends masturbating, but there’s no golden standard for how many times someone can edge, so this first hypothesis required Lioness users to consider how long they might be able to edge for.
Answers were mixed, but the majority of people reporting they thought edgingwould add 15 minutes or less to their typical session.
If you’re already familiar with edging, then you know that the claim is that delaying your orgasm should produce a more intense and pleasurable orgasm.
When asked if they think edging will improve their orgasms, 86% of Lioness users hypothesized “yes” and only 14% hypothesized “no.”
Yes! For most users, edging increased both session and orgasm length.
On an aggregate scale, session length increased by 5 mins and 24 seconds, while orgasm length increased by 9 seconds!
Surprisingly, no!
Average peak force of reported “non-edging” orgasms was 64.9 gF with 26.5 gF being the average for relaxation between pelvic floor contractions. For reported “edging” orgasms, however, force reached an average high of 61.6 gF and low of 29.6 gF. This suggests edging not only decreased the average peak force of orgasms, but also created less relaxation between pelvic floor contractions.
Overall, the data points to yes! For most people who did the Sexperiment, edging increased both time spent masturbating and orgasm length.
Just remember, there is nuance, as with all things related to sex and some folks found edging ruined their O’s. The only way to definitely answer if edging will improve your orgasm is to start doing it for science.
Ready to join Sexperiments? Get your Lioness Smart Vibrator today!
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!
