To think that real life sex isn’t like TV?

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After re-watching Bridgerton, am I wrong I thinking people aren’t having this kind of earth-shattering sexy time (I’m looking at you Duke of Hastings…) in real life?! Or have I just been missing out…

We must remember in the Bridgerton days, there was no tv, phones, playstations, radio, their staff did all the housework, cooking, cleaning etc, so apart from reading, drinking and eating, they had a lot more free time, which seems to be spent making long, passionate love. If I had staff, maybe DH and I could have spent far longer making love, than the usual quickie (but satisfying) love making before the DC woke up and DH and I went to work.

Yes 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I really did!!!! I’m glad he didn’t too, I love Benedict, I’m borderline obsessed with him. I’m glad it’s finished to I can regain my sanity.

This all sounds wrong tbh .

Omg the hip cramp!! So real.

Poor kid.

If you think Bridgerton is a poor portrayal, you should try watching Private Practice. Utterly ridiculous. They only show the “after” but it’s all sweaty bodies, panting, thank yous and “best sex ever” earth shattering, mind blown type of stuff. Every single time. 🤣 So unrealistic!

In our defence it was 11pm and she was supposed to be asleep.

Same.

This is so important. Knowing they want every inch of you and don’t care about “flaws” infact they love the flaws, make you feel like a goddess.. well it means a woman can truly relax and become her sexual self. Wish more men lnew this.
Instead of making women feel insecure and then expecting her to want sex with them still.

I was called a slut on MN and told that they had names for girls like me at school. Yep! Happy girls.

It’s jealousy, bitterness, insecurity and projection. Just pity judgemental people!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I couldn’t agree more, nothing turns my stomach more than a MN sex thread 🤢 I can’t even picture the kind of men these posters have sex with 🤮 Talking about farting and “pumps”?! Ewww.

I was also called a man hater on the same day. Oh well, can’t win them all.

If I take the ones from this season:

• sneaking off to shag during a big family event;
• getting fingered in a stairwell;
• hand stuff in the bath;
• not having an orgasm;
• Anthony going down on Kate;
• dressing up in something nice (go on Violet)
• faking an orgasm and getting called out on it.

I'd say people definitely are having these types of sex! I've done them all bar the stairwell (and even that is a maybe, I was a feral teenager). But even then, if you look at the season 1 montages - they weren't doing anything particularly wild, it was just passionate mostly? Which I would hope most people are experiencing...

And even then, I think they're fairly realistic - Daphne in S1 with the duke not wanting to finish inside her (okay, his reasoning was a bit weird but it's not uncommon if you're gambling with the natural family planning or whatever); Sophie this season asking him to go slowly; etc. I think they do a decent job of showing the stuff around the passion!

And now I realise just how much I want to get back with my ex 😫

Omg I am laughing!

This really made me giggle 🤣

I'm not sure. In threads where the DH goes off sex many people affirm that sex is important.

Do you mean anal? People are generally supportive of oral, different positions from what I've seen.

Only because they want to tell the OP, with zero evidence, that he must be a porn addict and she should leave him. Whereas when the woman isn’t up for it, there’s a chorus of replies telling her the husband’s a sex pest who needs to have a wank instead (but only alone, in the bathroom, at night, when neither his wife or kids are in the house, and not while looking at porn or attractive women on Instagram, and not while thinking about his wife because that would be objectifying her, and not using any sort of sex toy, and only if he then has a shower and scrubs the whole bathroom in bleach immediately afterwards).

I always have sex in a powdered wig and insist DH wears knee breaches and talks to me like a character in a Jane Austen novel. So I think it’s very accurate.

Not sure if this is simply sarcasm or you're also missing the point. Pretend it's different attire and language, that's what OP is asking.

No, not just anal although if you mention enjoying anal you could either be a man or you’ve just been coerced into it - you can’t possibly enjoy it! I was called a man (and then when I responded that I was absolutely not a man she responded with ‘whatever you say, Man’!) because I said I don’t put life admin/housework/sleep/etc above my sex life! I’ve been called a man in the last 3 weeks when I’ve said I don’t connect sex with love. The funniest ‘you must be a man’ comment was after I said I enjoy wearing lingerie at times. It’s insane that so many women on Mumsnet simply can’t grasp that we’re not all the same.

Yep- I have seen exactly these replies 😆

Or, in a thread where someone asks how often people have sex, if any woman says its more than the "acceptable" answer of twice a month they get told they are clearly lying, bragging, must have pervert husbands, etc
Like it's simply impossible for a woman to enjoy or want regular sex.

Of course, all the people scoffing "oh I'd far rather have a cup of tea" or "I can't be doing with all of that messy nonsense" never get accused of "lying" or "bragging".