More sex please, we're British

2006-12-27 14:33

London - Seven in 10 Britons want to make love more often, with men more frustrated than women, and women more likely to cheat on their partners, according to a new survey published on Wednesday.

The survey found that about a third of Britons (31%) have sex twice a week, with 10% having it every day - although 22% make love less than once a month.

An average of 72% of people want more sex - 62% of women and 82% of men, according to the Durex Big Sex Survey of some 3 000 British citizens.

Women are more unfaithful to their partners than men, the survey showed with some 40% of female respondents saying they have cheated, compared with 34% of men.

Some 20% of people fantasise about someone else while making love with their partners: 41% about a good friend, 22% with a work colleague, while 13% secretly lust after their partner's friend.

And the daydreams are not all heterosexual: a third of women (34%) fantasise in general about lesbian sex, compared with 14% of men who have gay fantasies.

Some places are hotter than others under the covers: Britain's sex central is apparently the northern city of Bradford, where nearly one in four (23%) of people makes love every day.

At the other end of the scale, the people of Sunderland in northeastern England are most frustrated, with eight out of 10 people wanting more sex than they get.

Despite all the pent-up desire, not everything is doom and gloom under the British bedsheets: overall most respondents (63%) said they were generally content with their sex lives.

- AFP