Melba is an app that provides couples with the unique opportunity to create new experiences that will help them learn how to explore their sexual selves.

By exploring and playing together in the realm of the erotic, couples can develop skills to foster ongoing sexual potential through enhanced communication and appreciation of themselves, each other, and their relationships.

The Melba experience gives couples permission to explore their sexual selves in a safe space. The use of the app encourages couples to invite each other into conversations about sex: their likes, dislikes, desires, fantasies, wishes, and unexplored aspects of their sexual selves.

Research has indicated that there is a strong, positive relationship between sexual communication and sexual function in couples. Sexual communication has been shown to be positively associated with sexual desire, sexual arousal, lubrication, orgasm, erectile function, and overall sexual function. Exploring the app will encourage couples to take risks to communicate deeply and try on different experiences in a mindful, safe space guided by the voice of the app—which represents the expertise of sex therapists and researchers who have contributed to the content.

Listening to the episodes together will allow the couple to engage their own imaginations, employing the incredible power of the brain/mind to be the most powerful sex organ of all, to harness their capacity to get turned on, kindling responsive desire into active desire, as they drop into the experience.  

Research indicates that couples who explore sexual novelty are likely to foster more sexual satisfaction, which is a key factor in overall relationship satisfaction. By exploring various sexual fantasies together, they can expand their erotic repertoire, which is key to maintaining a joyful, playful, and enlivened sex life. They can choose different paths to explore together, finding what fits them and is acceptable and of interest to their partner. This allows them to try on different fantasies and scenarios, explore techniques, harness their attention on the sensations, and access their feel-good and good-for-you wired-in core emotional systems such as CARE, LUST, and PLAY, as discussed in the book, Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More-Purpose Filled Life.