About us: why we founded Sensuali

Sensuali was founded out of a real need from lived experience. Our founders noticed that sensual experiences tended to be found in corners of the internet that didn’t inspire safety, confidence or empowerment. We wanted to build a place where trustworthy practitioners could advertise their services alongside other industry professionals that they admire. A place where curious adults could come to broaden their sensual horizons, knowing that they’re in good hands.

Being sensual explorers ourselves, we decided that if nobody was going to do it for us, we’d better do it ourselves, and that’s how Sensuali was born.

We are still young. We are evolving constantly and learning as we go. The most important thing for us is to help people deepen their relationship with themselves and their sensuality through access to tools and practices that empower that relationship.

We are an international team. Based in NYC, Berlin, London, Ibiza and Paris. We know from these buzzing hubs of pleasure that there is an increasing demand for experiences and events that are safe and educational in the pleasure world.

Most of us grew up without any guidance in relationships and intimacy. At Sensuali we envision a world where pleasure, sensuality, and connection aren’t taboo, but celebrated, explored and practiced without shame.

Our core values are:

Safety
Enthusiastic consent
Inclusivity
Education
Joy
Playfulness
Pleasure without shame or guilt

We truly believe that changing the way we perceive sensuality and making it accessible to all will change the world, we hope you feel the same way!

The Team

Clare Carmody

Head of Partnerships

Clare founded Erotic French, a travel experience company for curious tourists, and built the world's first ethical erotic language teaching AI chatbot. At Melba.app, the audio intimacy app, she led operations and content and helped over 1 million couples spice up their sex lives. Before that, Clare was Head of Programs at Sextech School, the world's first school for sextech founders. She also spent ten years at a major tech company building training and customer success programmes across Europe and Asia Pacific. She holds an MBA from the University of Melbourne and a theatre degree from Queensland University of Technology. Clare is an Australian living in Paris who works in English and French.

Rachael Hibbert

Head of Paid Acquisition

Rachael has more than 15 years’ experience leading growth & marketing strategies for startups and scale-ups, from building marketing functions to defining how brands acquire, convert and retain customers. She’s also a certified sex therapist and the founder of EDGE, a sexual wellness platform for men, so she’s equally interested in what makes people curious, hesitant, confident, or ready to explore something new. At Sensuali, Rachael leads paid acquisition, helping the right people discover the platform, its practitioners and new ways to explore intimacy, pleasure and connection. Sensuali brings together two sides of her work that don’t often meet: understanding human behaviour and using marketing to make things that can feel hidden, awkward or taboo easier to discover and talk about.

Julian Marcus

Community Manager

Julian is a clinical somatic sexologist, certified sexological bodyworker, and relational somatic coach. He works with individuals, couples, and groups, online and in person, helping people reconnect with their bodies and navigate intimacy with greater ease. He also leads residential couples retreats and trains other practitioners. Shaped by his own experience of navigating trauma and relearning to listen through his body, his approach favours curiosity over technique, moving at each client's pace. Julian welcomes people of all ages, genders, orientations, and relationship configurations.

Dana

Product & SEO Lead

Dana is a Berlin-based consultant with over a decade of experience in digital marketing, SEO, and online growth strategy. She has worked with brands, platforms, and creators to strengthen digital presence, improve search visibility, and build scalable marketing systems. Alongside her consulting work, Dana brings a background in embodied practices and human connection, shaping her perspective on intimacy, curiosity, and pleasure. At Sensuali, she contributes strategic insight and works on increasing the platform’s visibility across channels while optimizing its digital presence.

Tara Margulies

General Manager

Deeply passionate about helping people (but women in particular) have better sex and more fulfilling relationships, Tara has been talking about sex on the internet via her own social media channels since 2017. She joined Sensuali as general manager to help realise Sensuali’s goals, which are to make sensual experiences more accessible and squash taboos around pleasure and sensuality.

Isobel Clark

Blog & Copy Writer

Isobel is a writer and creative originally from a Northern UK seaside town. She loves everything to do with the erotic, arts and beauty, especially the ugly kind. From a young age, she found the term ‘slut’ (i.e. having a cheerful sexual appetite and little care to suppress it) very strange. She wrote and directed Paper Skin, a BBC short film exploring scenes of sex work from a fly-on-the-wall perspective. In 2022, she joined the Sensuali team, writing about intimacy, sexuality and sensual culture, and feels strongly about intimacy and touch being accessible to all.

Pauline Marie-Antoinette

Community Manager

Pauline is a writer, performer, intimacy and kinks workshop facilitator, and experience creator based in Berlin. Passionate about breaking taboos, she invites people to explore their sexuality and intimacy with creativity and mindfulness. At Sensuali, she expands the community, develops partnerships in Berlin and beyond, and writes articles about exciting sensual experiences. She loves to indulge in a tantra massage or a Shibari suspension with Sensuali’s professionals.

April Maria

Social media, Blog writer

April Maria is a qualified Sex Educator, Embodied Intimacy Coach, and a training Psychosexual and Relationships Therapist. Passionate about helping others navigate challenges in sex and relationships, she supports individuals in exploring their authentic selves and finding deeper fulfilment in their connections. She offers a safe, judgment-free space to guide people toward empowerment and joy in their sexual wellness journey. April is also a strong advocate for using social media as an educational platform, breaking down the taboos around sex and relationships. Through open and honest conversations, like we have on Sensuali, she helps normalise the thoughts, worries, and experiences that so many people share but often feel unable to discuss.