3 Sex and Mindfulness Apps for Your Pleasure

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Sexual mindfulness will remain one of the top sexual health trends of 2023, predicts Lovehoney Group in its latest Sex Trends Report.

“During sex, so many people are focused on the ending, but sexual mindfulness is all about the presence of the whole experience,” says Shamyra Howard, an AASECT certified sex therapist and relationship expert at LoveHoney.

Overwhelmed by constant stimulation and endless entertainment on our smartphones, people are seeking balance and exploring sex and mindfulness apps.

Applying sexual mindfulness to your personal life is an option whether you are single or in a relationship.

What matters most is being involved in the moment, putting your attention on enjoying the journey rather than on arriving at your destination.

“Sexual mindfulness can mean less performance-centered sex and more self-focused interactions,” adds the LoveHoney report.

“For sex with a partner, it means focusing on your and your partner’s body and enjoying the moment, without pressure to perform or climax.”

Below I’ve shared three sex and mindfulness apps I have personally tried. At the moment, two of them mainly target women. Yet I’ve shared a third that focuses on conscious sexuality and mindfulness for Kegels training whether you have a penis or a vulva. As I try more sex and mindfulness apps, I will update this list with my experiences.

Rosy app

The Rosy app is a sexual wellness and intimacy coaching app that takes on mindfulness and sex as one of its main teachings, especially when it comes to enhancing or reigniting one’s libido.

Last year, the folks at the Rosy app gifted me a free three-month subscription, which included two group coaching sessions hosted by experts such as doctors and psychologists.

After downloading the Rosy app, I was given an intro survey to ask me about my current state of sexual wellness as well as any intimacy issues or goals I wanted to explore. With this information, I was given a personalized plan via recommended daily videos and practices.

In addition to educational content and group coaching, the Rosy app shares erotic audio stories intended to help listeners get out of their heads and explore their own feelings or arousal and desire.

I’m a fan of group coaching and have done it in person in the past. My virtual experience was positive, which I will write about more in an upcoming Rosy app review. In the meantime, I will say the Rosy app provided an engaging group coaching environment about sexual intimacy and low libido in a way that felt safe and helpful.

While the coach led the group sessions on video, the attendees remained anonymous but could talk and ask questions over text or video.

The Rosy app is available to download on both Android and iOS smartphones, in the United States and Canada.

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Senses app – Kegel exercises

Another mindful sexuality app I had the opportunity to test is the Senses Kegels app. It offers daily sexual health practices for your pelvic floor, your breath, and your mind.

The main focus is on teaching Kegel exercises and pelvic floor health. The educational content includes video-guided exercises for individuals and couples, with specific lessons dedicated to both Kegels for penises and vulvas.

Senses App co-founder Alena Perminova gave me a free three-month trial. A certified yoga teacher with more than ten years of experience in mindfulness practice, she told me she wasn’t happy to just build a simple Kegel timer app.

“A lot of people know about Kegel timers, but not everyone knows that it’s not necessarily just to strengthen your muscles,” she says.

“It’s also very important to relax them and to align all these Kegel exercises with your breathing, with your awareness.”

Every day you sign into the app, you’ll receive a set of cards with exercises aimed at teaching you about pelvic floor health and how to perform Kegel exercises properly. You can view the cards and do the exercises, or leave them for alteration and you can jump to other sections.

The Senses app stands out on this list of sex and mindfulness apps for its inclusiveness. Whether you have a penis or a vulva, there are pelvic floor exercises suited to your genitalia. Also, it offers exercises for solo users and for couples regardless of their sexual orientation.

The Ferly app calls itself an audio guide to mindful sex, with its library of erotic audio and somatic sex ed lessons. It targets women and includes science-backed exercises for understanding one’s body and self-pleasure.

Somatic sex education focuses on the role of the body and physical sensations in sexual experiences. It’s designed to help teach people about themselves and connect with their own bodies. The goal of somatic sex education is to help individuals develop a more positive and fulfilling relationship with their sexuality.

The Ferly app also encourages you to schedule a daily time for your self-pleasure.

The educational content such as body mapping and breathwork is similar to what I learned from the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. The practices center on building awareness and mindfulness around physical sensations and emotions related to sex. I took an intro course on becoming a somatic sex educator, but I wasn’t ready to finish it and do the body mapping work.

At the time of writing, I’ve only tested out the free content on the Ferly app. So far, what I’ve sampled from its erotic audio and adult sex ed and somatic sex education offerings has impressed me, so I am considering getting a paid plan at some point.

In addition to the steamy erotic audio, the Ferly app offers accessible somatic sex education that’s a step above books and not quite the big leap of enrolling in a somatic sex ed teacher program.

Stay tuned as we plan to update our list of sex and mindfulness apps when notable apps pop up.