Avatar-based Therapy for Female Orgasmic Disorder

"Intervention was aimed at improving sexual variables (sexual satisfaction, sexual function, and initiative and sexual communication), and variables that are known to affect orgasm consecution (sexual self-esteem, sex-guilt, and sexual anxiety). To achieve this objective, it focused on fostering participants' abilities to increase their levels of sexual stimulation, and the engagement in personal values, along with identifying and modifying dysfunctional thoughts about sexuality. The techniques used included psychosexual education, cognitive restructuring, virtual exposure, sexual stimulation, and engagement in personal values from the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) perspective.~It was delivered via a metaverse: Second Life."

Participants were provided with information about female orgasm (e.g., what is an orgasm, neuronal orgasm, factors that may influence consecution, sexual response), masturbatory techniques (e.g., key elements to achieve pleasure, anatomy of the female genitalia, pleasure areas) and techniques to focus attention on one's body (i.e., an important factor to pleasure). Participants received three individual sessions once a month, and had a duration of one hour.