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

157 replies

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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Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2020 09:03

I had to laugh when people were calling Normal People sex ‘porn’ and timing how much sex was in each episode. Grin Not sure what sort of porn they had been watching to think that!

Youcunnyfunt · 09/07/2020 11:07

@SimonJT I didn't say it did apply to everyone.

It's good for you that you've got a partner you can regularly have sex with, that you are intimate with, and it's not just a shag.

A lot of people conflate having a lot of sex with intimacy - it is not the same thing. I've had a lot of sex but I wasn't truly emotionally intimate with some of my exes. It is a different experience, like night and day. So, it can seem like I "had it all" (a lot of sex) but I didn't, although the sex was good, it wasn't the absolute best experience because it wasn't intimate.

What I'm saying is, if you have great intimate sex with your partner, and you might feel down that you're not having as much sex as "everyone else" - please don't - because there's a good chance that people who are having loads of sex might be missing the kind of experience that you are having!

I hate these kinds of threads because it makes people who wish they had more sex feel like shit. I'm aware posting on it brings more attention to the thread, but I just want whoever's reading this to not feel alone. The majority of people are not having sex everyday!!

NameChange84 · 09/07/2020 12:28

I don’t have a great deal of experience but I always thought the majority of TV sex was pure unrealistic fantasy.

However a few years ago now I couldn’t sleep in a hotel due to a couple above me having rough sex for THREE HOURS straight. And it sounded like she was cumming pretty much every 8 minutes or so. And she was soooo loud, she sounded like she was on a vibrating rollercoaster “whuh-whu-wu-wu-wwwwwwwwwwww-Whhuuuuuuuoooooooooooohhhhhhhh-WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!”. And they seemed to be having sex on every single surface of the room...the bed, every wall, the floor, the desk, the shower, the windowsill, the toilet seat for heavens sake (it was a Travelodge so each room was identikit and U could hear every bloody jackhammering thrust and grunt). He’d grunt, they’d stop for about twenty seconds then off they’d go again. I have no idea how the poor woman could walk the next day and will admit to sneakily trying to figure out who the couple were in the breakfast room the next day.

Anyway, I was attending a conference all week, a female colleague asked me at lunch the next day if I’d slept well because I looked tired. I told her no and the above story. This couple that were also in attendance started to go red, the man muttered under his breath, “hope she’s not staying in the Travelodge”. My colleague said “she is! Why did you hear them too?” It became apparent in the elevator that night that they were indeed the culprits. So awkward. The poor girl looked like she wanted to die of embarrassment whilst he was like the cat with the cream.

What made it even more icky is that whilst we’d all assumed they were a businessman father and his quiet, studious young daughter learning how to take over the family business, they were actually a married couple with a huge age gap (20s/50s).

She didn’t look at me for the rest of the week.

So some people ARE having insane Hollywood style sex. But I’m really not sure I’d want to Confused.

DianasLasso · 09/07/2020 13:14

Towards the end of things with my ex it was just like TV - specifically, this bit of TV:

(I'm guessing that's not what you meant, though, OP Grin)

LittleGwyneth · 09/07/2020 13:41

Yes, definitely. But shower sex is the worst. As other people have said, water is not a welcome addition, strips away all the natural lubrication. Sex in a swimming pool also not great tbh.

coffeetime11 · 09/07/2020 13:44

Some people (other than the Prime Minister) use condoms when having affairs. Yet never in any tv sex scene is it even discussed.

Toothsil · 09/07/2020 13:46

The sex with a bra on always makes me laugh, my bra has always disappeared straight after my top, I can't imagine sex in a bra.

Justaboy · 09/07/2020 14:12

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.

Well one night in darkest Yorkshire after a few pints of Theakstons Ole Peculier beer we were well out of it and dared each other to do the deed on a railway crossing! It happened!, a couple of trains came by a few miniutes afterwards, could have been a disaster how we manged to walk back the cottage were were staying in never know!

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 😂

Used to do the same but at Stansted but the prices they charge now for parking can't afford it, even if it was a requiement!!

2bazookas · 09/07/2020 14:12

Northernsoullover

Yes, but the next day he was in so much pain I had to call an ambulance and take him to hospital . They called it acute appendicitis.

GinDaddyRedux · 09/07/2020 14:29

We are such a weird, shit nation when it comes to sex. There's so much "Carry-on" level attempts at humour, competition at who can "out-awkward" their descriptions of sex encounters, that I'm surprised there's any room left for erotic thoughts of any kind. It's like it's incredibly uncool to actually have desire for another, and sexual self-regard, as an innate and normal part of your identity.

whatshebininagain · 09/07/2020 14:43

Jesstan2

Doesn't that come off during activities?

On American TV, very often not. I must admit I watch a fair bit of true crime where "Shauna liked to party". Cue "Shauna" in matching set, perfect hair and make up, on top, arched back etc, etc.

Macncheeseballs · 09/07/2020 14:50

I always assumed it was because the director is usually male and it's his fantasy of perfect sex, ie woman on top, arched back, tits perky and protuding!

BatshitCrazyWoman · 09/07/2020 14:53

I've had the best sex of my life since my divorce and I'm 56 - and yes I'd say some of was like on TV.

JingsMahBucket · 09/07/2020 15:07

@GinDaddyRedux

We are such a weird, shit nation when it comes to sex. There's so much "Carry-on" level attempts at humour, competition at who can "out-awkward" their descriptions of sex encounters, that I'm surprised there's any room left for erotic thoughts of any kind. It's like it's incredibly uncool to actually have desire for another, and sexual self-regard, as an innate and normal part of your identity.
I was noticing this in the posts as well @GinDaddyRedux. It’s okay to just say and acknowledge that some people have really great tv sex even you don’t. Not everyone is awkward at sex. Just because we look out of the ordinary doing it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s awkward, if you see what I mean. Making faces or whatever is natural. That’s the fun and intimate part of it. That other person gets to see to see you at your most uninhibited.
DorisDances · 09/07/2020 15:08

Never have a camera crew there - nope!

redbigbananafeet · 09/07/2020 15:27

@LakieLady

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.

This is what puts me off renting a lodge with a hot tub.
GinDaddyRedux · 09/07/2020 15:28

@JingsMahBucket

Amen to all of this!

Delilah21D00LoT · 09/07/2020 15:37

Don't forget the 'bending (shoving actually) her foreward over the car bonnet and taking her from behind (although that was her husband, not her lover). it seems she had amazing sex with both men!

UmbrellaHat · 09/07/2020 15:43

There's a lot of sex at work on television.At work I generally have other stuff to be getting on with.
😀😀😀

UmbrellaHat · 09/07/2020 16:00

If anyone remembers the film 9 1/2 weeks there was lots of sex in well curated places and I always wanted to re-enact the scene in the rain. When years later I met DH I raved about the film having for gotten that it was actually pretty dire. We sat through part of it, he said he didn't think it erotic at all and I never got my sex in the rain. TBF I did actually want her clothes and lifestyle as well as the sex.

Jellybeansincognito · 09/07/2020 17:03

3 hour sex?

I’d be bored after an hour lol

Sparklingbrook · 09/07/2020 17:08

@Jellybeansincognito

3 hour sex?

I’d be bored after an hour lol

Yes 3 hours is a bit much. Maybe would have stopped for a cuppa at some point. Also wouldn't you be a bit wrinkly after three hours in a sex pond?
OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 09/07/2020 17:13

@DianasLasso

Towards the end of things with my ex it was just like TV - specifically, this bit of TV:

(I'm guessing that's not what you meant, though, OP Grin)

Dying... forgotten how brilliant this is 🤣🤣
ShakeaHettyFeather · 09/07/2020 17:45

In my 20s now-DH and I did a fair bit of sex that was more to see whether the scenario was actually any good. Against a wall, tick, better with a windowsill for me to perch on, not bothered to try again. On a Tube train (before CCTV!), about as good as you can get in under three minutes. In a bath - really not worth it.

In the showers of a changing room in summer, hot day, half a dozen sprays coming down on us, building locked so no-one else could get in - bloody brilliant.

Back when we only saw each other once a fortnight we could easily spend one day of the weekend just having sex. Then we spent years trying to get me pregnant so mastered the quickie... which was useful for when we had kids! Don't think I've had sex outside a bed for 20 years now, and don't regret that in the slightest.

We did film ourselves having sex once early on in our relationship, laughed a lot at the video, and never tried that again. He didn't like how his face went.

Gre8scott · 09/07/2020 19:08

If it was with joshua jackson I'd be happy any which way !!!