The Leading Sex Expert: How To Have Great Sex EVERY Time! (And Fix Bad Sex): Tracey Cox | E247

Tracey Cox joins Steven Bartlett to unpack why so many couples, even those in their 30s, drift into sexless relationships. She distinguishes spontaneous from responsive desire, explains why most women don't orgasm through intercourse, and argues that boredom and routine kill women's desire faster than men's. Practical fixes center on honest conversation, varied and erotic sex, bite-size intimacy, and using tools like vibrators. The discussion ranges across infidelity, porn, choking culture among young people, AI sex dolls, body image, menopause, and the dating struggles of high-achieving single women.

• Women get bored with sex faster than men because men get the orgasm as a reward while women's orgasm needs are more complicated.
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• Only about 20% of women can climax through penetrative sex, meaning 80% are not getting orgasms from intercourse.
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• If you haven't had sex with your partner for a year, it is very unlikely you'll have sex again unless you confront it head-on.
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• You can't know someone's true resting libido until about a year in because desire is artificially inflated at the start.
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• The motivation for affairs has reversed: men now cheat for love and affection, women cheat for erotic, selfish sex.
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• The two happiest groups of people are single women and married men.
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• Most women can have an orgasm within three minutes with a vibrator, the most expert tool for stimulating the clitoris.
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• Around 40% of men who masturbate to porn report feeling a sense of shame.
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• The clitoris is wishbone-shaped and roughly 10 cm long, with most of it inside the body.
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• About two-thirds of men have spontaneous desire while only 30% of women do; the rest are a mix.
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• 30% of couples together two years or more do not have sex.
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• In Japan, an estimated 45% of people reach their 30s having never had a sexual encounter.
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• A study found 58% of college students had been choked, and 30% had been asked to be choked.
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• One quarter of couples who rarely or never have sex still rate themselves as extremely happy.
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• A childhood experience of being shamed for masturbating can train men into rapid ejaculation by rushing to avoid getting caught.
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• Per the Harvard study, men in positive romantic relationships live 14 years longer and women 7 years longer.
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• It has been known since the Kama Sutra (3rd-5th century) that women generally don't orgasm through penetrative sex.
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• The number of high-achieving women is rising while high-achieving men decline, shrinking the dating pool for educated women.
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