Let’s Talk About Sex

Episode 4 of Kadence Bio’s Sexual Wellness Mini Series: Beyond the Bedroom

Last month, we spoke about how media portrayals shape our understanding of sex, often fuelling the taboo and stigma surrounding this topic. This month’s Beyond the Bedroom episode spotlights initiatives that are normalizing conversations around sexual health, pleasure, and education. By bringing these topics into the mainstream, they challenge outdated perspectives and empower individuals to embrace a healthier, more open approach to sexuality.

Sexual Health: Mojo - A digital drug-free solution to male sexual health 

Mojo is an app which is changing the conversation around male sexual dysfunction - often misunderstood and stigmatized. The digital platform offers men a non-medicated approach to managing sexual health, combining expert-led video guidance, therapy-based exercises, and tracking tools to help users regain confidence.

With input from doctors, therapists, and sexperts, Mojo provides a science-backed, accessible alternative to traditional pharmaceutical interventions. The platform focuses on education, and empowerment, allowing users to learn and improve their sexual wellbeing from the comfort of their own homes. For example, it provides access to real therapy sessions between professional therapists and men with similar experiences, letting you gain insights and learn practical strategies as though you were in the session yourself. By offering easy and effective exercises, tools to measure and track sexual wellbeing, and therapy trade secrets, Mojo is reshaping how we talk about male sexual health.

Sexual Pleasure: OMGYes - changing the narrative on female pleasure

Historically, female pleasure has been overlooked in both research and education, and OMGYes brings it to the forefront. Developed in partnership with leading researchers at Indiana and Yale Universities and the Kinsey Institute, the platform is built on extensive studies into women’s sexual experiences.

OMGYes provides interactive videos, animations, and guides designed to help females and their partners explore pleasure in an informed, shame-free way. OMGYes provides a menu of techniques to explore, all of which come with different women’s perspectives, animated variations of the techniques, detailed demonstrations, and ways to bring them to the bedroom.

Beyond technique, it helps couples build a shared vocabulary, making conversations about sex and pleasure easier and more constructive. OMGYes is helping to prioritize female sexuality and normalize conversations around it in ways that traditional education has long neglected.

Sexual Education: Sex Education – A shift in media portrayal of teenage sexuality

Netflix’s Sex Education has made waves for its candid, sex-positive storytelling. The series follows Otis, a socially awkward teenager who, despite his own lack of experience, starts an underground sex therapy clinic at school using insights from his sex therapist mother.

What sets Sex Education apart is its fearless approach to topics often ignored in mainstream media. From anxiety around masturbation, to conditions like vaginismus (involuntary vaginal muscle contractions during penetration) and anorgasmia (difficulty or inability to orgasm) to sexual orientation, consent, and pleasure, the show tackles real issues through relatable storytelling.

The series is also a pioneer in how sex and sex-related scenes are portrayed on screen, featuring an intimacy coordinator to ensure authenticity and sensitivity in its depiction of sexual experiences. Critics and audiences alike praise its refreshing honesty, making it a powerful tool for younger audiences navigating their own sexual identities and relationships. Although the show ended on a high with Season 4, its approach to depicting sexual intimacy has thankfully been adopted by other series across genres, such as Sally Rooney’s Normal People, further normalizing authentic portrayals of sex on screen.

Cast of Sex Education

Media plays an undeniable role in shaping attitudes toward sex. Whether through informative platforms like Mojo and OMGYes, or groundbreaking TV shows like Sex Education, these initiatives are essential in challenging outdated norms and making sex a more open, shame-free topic. At Kadence Bio, we believe in fostering these conversations, not just through scientific innovation, but by supporting cultural shifts that promote education, empowerment, and destigmatization. The more we talk about sex, the closer we get to a world where sexual wellness is prioritized.

Let’s keep the conversation going. Explore these media initiatives, share them with your network, and most importantly, talk about sex!