SEX ED for women is an educational, interactive magazine meant to empower females and help them improve their sexual experiences. This projects aims to strip away the taboo that surrounds all subjects relating to female sexuality, thus teaching women that their sexual desires are meant to be satisfied.
In her podcast, How Cum, Charlotte Kassimir emphasizes one of the main aspects of intercourse sexual education fails to address. And as one can observe by analyzing the services provided by Planned Parenthood, sexual education in the United States has failed to provide a thorough explanation of how sexual intercourse can be an enjoyable experience for all of the parties involved. For women especially, due to the evident taboo surrounding their sexuality, such lack of information can affect one’s sexual experience exponentially. Thus, this project, Sex Ed for Women, aims to fill in the pre-mentioned gap and act as an educational website for women who wish to comprehend and further explore their sexual needs.
Fortunately, information concerning women’s sexual experiences exists in scholarly journals. However, such text presents the content in academic and medical jargon that an ordinary audience may find difficult to digest. Not to mention, even academics are still uncertain as to what constitutes a female orgasm. It would be difficult for women to understand how to pleasure themselves when even researchers are unaware of how they can reach orgasm. Thus, Sex Ed for Women was born with the sole objective of pooling together all the research available in a concise, understandable language, to help shrink the pleasure gap. In short, studies have shown that nearly 91 percent of men reach orgasm during sexual intercourse as opposed to 39 percent of women.
This project, in so far, tackles three main subjects to fulfill its intended objective. The first section of this website, titled “Flick the Bean!” tackles the various styles of touch, pressure, and the tactics a sample of 1,000 women use to enhance orgasm during both sexual intercourse and masturbation. Styles of touch, on the one hand, vary from pulsating to pressing and occasionally flicking. Tactics used to enhance orgasm vary from switching breathing patterns to spending time to build arousal.
The second section of this project, “It’s Not All Bananas”, tackles the differences between vagina stimulation and clitoral stimulation. The research portrayed throughout this section presented several intriguing facts, including how most women confessed to needing clitoral stimulation during intercourse to reach orgasm yet seldom tend to ask for said stimulation from their partners. Studies show that especially when a male partner is introduced, clitoral stimulation and orgasm frequency drops like flies.
The last currently live section of this project is titled “Sexual Healing” and it focuses on a study written by Claudia Schmiedeberg, et al., “The More or the Better? How Sex Contributes to Life Satisfaction.” The pre-mentioned research paper by Schmiedeberg, et al. narrates how there is a clear correlation between general life satisfaction and fulfillment of a person’s sexual desires. The “Sexual Healing” section of this website later encourages women to put to test the styles and tactics suggested throughout the website to reach improve their overall life satisfaction by fulfilling their sexual desires.
Finally, this project aims to create a sense of community and belonging as well. And it does so by allowing the women who visit the site to make their own suggestions through a question and answer (Q&A) section. Each Q&A component allows the user to respond to certain questions. Thereafter the questions are saved and displayed once the user has visited all of the sections enlisted throughout the website.
This project will be further developed in years to come to fulfill its goal of ending the pleasure gap existent in society. As it develops, there will be subjects added to the site through the exploration of further research. Over time, it is expected that this website will turn into a sexual guide for women, thus stripping the overarching taboo which haunts discussions concerning female sexuality.
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