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To ask, does anyone have sex like they do TV dramas?

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Millicent10 · 08/07/2020 20:50

During lockdown I’ve been watching The Affair, it’s a great drama but I am wondering if the sex reflects anyone’s real life? Even before 4 x children I don’t remember sex like that on tap 24/7, starting to wonder if I’ve missed out. I don’t even fancy Dominic West but I feel a bit upset that I’ve never been in a relationship like this.

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ohsoplump · 09/07/2020 00:12

Has anyone ever been successful shagging against a wall?

Yes. Six inch heels help.

Titsywoo · 09/07/2020 00:16

@ohsoplump

Has anyone ever been successful shagging against a wall?

Yes. Six inch heels help.

Sounds like too much bother for me. Plus I'd fall over afterwards - can barely stand in heels never mind walk.
Chocolate1984 · 09/07/2020 00:20

I had great sex in my early 20s. Couldn’t keep our hands off each other, had sex pretty much everywhere. Sex multiple times a night, sweat dripping down our bodies, endless kissing and foreplay, adventitious and multiple orgasms. I felt amazing. We would be out shopping, look at each other and we could feel the tension building. Even after 3 years we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. Amazing time. No other man has ever compared to him and I’ve been disappointed by sex since 2004.

JingsMahBucket · 09/07/2020 00:24

@Sparklingbrook

Anyone watched Normal People? They had an ‘intimacy coordinator‘ for the sex scenes to make sure it looked realistic but the actors were comfortable, The sex was pretty realistic complete with awkward moments!
I was going to mention “Normal People” too. They did such a good job on this that pretty everyone from critics to viewers remarked how realistic it was. Paradoxically enough, it made it fantastically fun to watch, as in, a lot of people used it for their own sexual fantasies. It seems a lot of us are just craving good intimacy.
ThisismeT · 09/07/2020 00:27

@Chocolate1984
Very similar to me. As I mentioned above I was like that in my 18-20 yrs.

jessstan2 · 09/07/2020 00:27

whatshebininagain Wed 08-Jul-20 21:14:45
Watch too much American TV and you'd think every woman had sex wearing a perfect matching undie set.
......
Doesn't that come off during activities?

JingsMahBucket · 09/07/2020 00:32

@Redland12

Socialdistancegintonic, I’m so pleased to give you hope but no need! It’s out there! I’m online and my status is casual so they know what I want, no strings no drama! So the sex is out of this world! It’s all young guys who contact me as the older woman is their fantasy! I’m happy to oblige! All built like Adonis! Unbelievable! I’m drooling thinking about my FWB in the morning! Who Hoo!
This is awesome. @Redland12 you are the best thing on this thread!!
Dontsayyouloveme · 09/07/2020 00:35

Yes.... with a fwb, for a year and a half! It was incredible, Very adventurous and passionate but with depth of feeling and intimacy at the same time! In fact I was watching ‘normal people’ Recently and I loved the bit where she said to him after a particularly good session ‘you know, it’s not like this with other people’ and I totally connected with what She said.. I’d never had sex like it before (it only ended last year, so had had a lot of practice and been in long terms relationship before him) and I m not sure I’ll ever have it like that again.. I’ve great memories though 😏

Chienloup · 09/07/2020 00:37

In my teens and 20s I definitely had a ridiculous amount of sex in an array of "interesting" places - balconies,a car park, swimming pools (as pp said, not recommended), in the store manager's office at a Waitrose, in a nightclub, in the grounds of a residential in-patient unit (neither of us were patients), in a taxi, on a river bank, on a train, on a boat, in cars ...- actually looking back, I'm not sure all of it was wise.

One particular boyfriend, we did have sex literally every night. I was shattered the whole year we were together. I was late-20s and he was early-20s, I put the energy down to his youth!

These days things are much more sedate, and my confidence has dropped as I've got older, heavier, and more tired. I'm also very conscious of the physical changes giving birth three times has caused.

PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2020 02:11

Having RTFT, I did have that with exDH. It was always incredible, but then it should have been, he had enough fucking practice just not with me........

DestinationFkd · 09/07/2020 02:26

Sex like in the movies? I never really fancied parking my arse in a sink full of dirty crockery while frantically splashing myself down from the tap.
Plus I'd be worried about where the tap would end up!
Sex in the shower? Tried it once and earned myself three stiches in my head.
Never had sex against a wall, but had it while draped over a wall.
Unlike the movies, I don't fancy being slammed into a wall while trying to passionately kiss while tearing clothes off. It looks like it could hurt which would be a passion killer when you yell out ' ow, hang on Nige, I think I've done my back, gimme a minute luv '
Then there's the woman who slinks out of the shower with perfectly tousled hair, wearing his shirt after the event. Naturally he is whipping up a gourmet delight in the kitchen.
Of course, the actual event involves her laid on plumped up pillows with hair perfectly spread out and him gently pumping away while gazing into her perfectly made up eyes.
We all know the reality is that our hair would look like we've been dragged through a hedge, our make up would be smeared and smudged everywhere and he would be going at it like a jackhammer.

1forAll74 · 09/07/2020 02:39

I think sex can be a bit like in films,as in wild abandon,when you are with a person who you have great sexual chemistry with,and you just cant wait. But it's usually when having an affair, and not with your Husband !!

PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2020 03:00

Two things just occurred...

The bit in Friends where Ross and Rachel realise that the conception of their baby was accidentally on film and where horrified by what they saw. That showed the difference between real sex V what we think we look like! I dont want to see my orgasm face thank you!

And the MNer who (iirc) had shower sex and her lover ended up in hospital because he slipped and broke....something.... I want to say neck but could have been a leg. Its awful really but the way she wrote it was fucking hilarious, especially when she didnt try to airbrush it for the paramedics and decided to just come (fnaaar!) clean!

DevilsSpawn · 09/07/2020 03:01

Yeah i had an amazing adventrous sex life before dc.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 09/07/2020 03:12

:o:o:o
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Anotherblokelurking · 09/07/2020 07:08

Had sex in a pool and it was just like the scene in “Showgirls”. Not.

Anotherblokelurking · 09/07/2020 07:18

Is it against the law for American women to have sex without a bra on?!
You can show all sorts of violence and imply sex including violent sex on US tv, but show a nipple and they go ape shit.

changeofname890 · 09/07/2020 08:05

@Sparklingbrook you are right it is very beautiful and passionate, and we are also very far from vanilla 😉

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 09/07/2020 08:18

We don't have TV sex. Low resolution Tristram Shandy* sex, yes. We change position a fair bit, but that's to spread out the arthritis.

"Have you wound the clock/put the bins out/locked the back door?".

LakieLady · 09/07/2020 08:21

Haven’t seen it but had the most amazing sex in a hot tub for three hours this weekend

Ewwww! All those body fluids festering in hot tub water. Vomworthy.

I thought calling hot tubs "sex ponds" was just an MN in-joke, I didn't realise people actually did it.

Herja · 09/07/2020 08:27

I have had lots of TV sex (the good sort. Not the sort where you wear clothes and a duvet pulled up at all times). It's always been excellent with the right person. Ex did need surgery after one episode though; he ruptured previous eye surgery in his vigor, and we damaged a bed. So maybe just keep it a bit calmer than that, hospital did put a dampener on things.

He was the one I had a shit sex life with too Grin. I really like sex, and while boring is fine for some occasions, and calm and romantic fine too - I'd be sad if I never had a bit of TV sex in the mix as well.

ohsoplump · 09/07/2020 08:51

Sounds like too much bother for me. Plus I'd fall over afterwards - can barely stand in heels never mind walk.

Oh, I can barely stand afterwards, but is nothing to do with the heels.

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2020 08:54

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

No, sex on tv is not realistic. There has been a lot of praise for the realism of sex scenes in Normal People and I May Destroy You but I think they're way off, both of them.

Where's the foreplay? It's either non existent or 20 seconds at most. Especially when anal sex is depicted.

In I May Destroy You, a character was raped by her partner removing the condom mid sex. She then looked surprised that he had done that but if a man ejaculates inside you then sperm drips out, even before you get up and go to the loo. You'd know.

I get the foreplay thing but Normal People was 12 x 1/2 hour episodes so no time. Not that I would really want to watch hours of foreplay really. Grin
SimonJT · 09/07/2020 08:57

@Youcunnyfunt Having sex all the time doesn’t make it intimate though.

That isn’t the case for everyone though is it. We have sex most days (didn’t last night as the puppy was a swine, good job hes cute), it isn’t any less intimate compared to when we weren’t living together and sex was limited to one day a week. For me having sex with him is the most intimate thing.

On to the whole TV sex thing, an ex travelled abroad a lot for work, so we would often have sex in the car at Heathrow when I picked him up, no Titanic handprints on the window 😂