SKEA Makes Women Do Their Kegels While Playing Video Games

Video games and sex don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. I mean, when you're asked to visualize the typical World of Warcraft subscriber, you most likely aren't picturing someone who's great in bed.  But one company is looking to turn that around, for lady gamers at least.

Physicist and game designer Tom Chen of Linkcube Studio in China has figured out an innovative, albeit unconventional, way to help ladies exercise their pelvic floor muscles while getting their game on. It's called SKEA (Smart Kegel Exercise Aid), and it's a video game controller ladies can operate by inserting into their vaginas.

The SKEA is designed to be used in conjunction with a mobile game called "Alice in Continent," in which the title character chases rabbits, avoids "lava leaks" and collects "Collagen elixers." So how do you make Alice run, you make ask? By squeezing the SKEA with your pelvic muscles.

Why bother with pelvic floor muscles? For one, they can help with urinary incontinence, something many women struggle with after giving birth. The other, and perhaps more enticing, benefit to exercising these muscles is that it can improve sex.

Chen explained on the Kickstarter page, "Strong pelvic floor muscles can enhance arousal and improve sensation, orgasm quality, and general sexual experience. Men also prefer his female partner{s} to have stronger pelvic muscles, due to the stronger contact forces and grip during the course."

Strong Kegal muscles can help with childbirth as well, both during the actual process and the recovery.  

Chen also notes, "Traditional Kegel exercise is long and boring. Most patients fail to complete on their own... SKEA offers an interesting alternative treatment, which could be more fun and acceptable."

To date, the Kickstarter campaign has pulled in $17,445. Their goal is to reach $38,000