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For a long time I assumed that “good sex,”—at least to men—meant all the acrobatics and accessories you can imagine. It was a pretty intimidating thought, actually, that made me figure I was bad at sex. But I finally interviewed my male friends on what “good sex” means to them, and I got some answers I didn’t expect. And some that I did.

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“Long sex”

One friend measures the quality of the sex by the quantity — if you can put it that way. His only complaints about sex came when the woman didn’t want to draw things out.

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“Oral for her, intercourse for him”

One guy said he was too nervous that he wouldn’t be able to make a woman orgasm during intercourse, so he just had to get her off with oral before he could have intercourse. But he, personally, wanted to finish with intercourse. If he didn’t know for a fact the woman had orgasmed before intercourse, he couldn’t do it.

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“Rough and fast”

One guy said he liked to have so much mental foreplay throughout the night that by the time actual sex happened, he and the woman basically tore each other’s clothes off and finished within three minutes. “Most of sex happens before the real sex” is what he said.