# How long does good sex take? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838 "2008-04-03T19:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/41 "2008-04-06T07:53:50Z")
I read recently that for some men, sex is fast because they grew up in an environment where, for lack of better phrasing, they could only pleasure themselves “quickly” in the bathroom during adolescence. They sort of got used to getting off fast and it carried on to real relationships. That said, I can remember, in my younger years, being with other guys and having marathon sex where neither wanted to finish and it would take hours and hours…trust me when I say that when we finally did finish, it was rather spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/42 "2008-04-06T08:05:08Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Yep, maybe I am just weird. [/QUOTE] If so, so am I. I’m always confounded about questions like these, where it seems that “sex” automatically means “vaginal penetration by a penis”. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/43 "2008-04-06T10:28:58Z")
I’ve got it down to thirty seconds now including foreplay,I’m working on breaking the ten second barrier in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/44 "2008-04-06T11:26:26Z")
Given that I’m 66 and it’s been about 4 years since I last did “it” I’d say that about ½ sec from start to finish would see me exhausted What? ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/45 "2008-04-07T17:09:09Z")
Huh…I couldn’t finish in under 15 minutes if I **tried**. Usually ours is around 20-30 minutes of coitus. All other play adds up to another 20-30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/46 "2008-04-07T23:04:54Z")
Sometimes it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night. ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/47 "2008-04-08T02:58:53Z")
As long as it needs to, and not a second more. 😛 - Female ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838/48 "2008-04-08T03:04:41Z")
[QUOTE=Le Ministre de l’au-delà] Finding it or doing it? Yogi Berra used to say it wasn’t the sex that wore the players out for the game the next day, it was staying up til 5 in the morning looking for it. [/QUOTE] That was Casey Stengel. Yogi Berra didn’t say all of the good ones. [http://www.caseystengel.com/quotes.htm](http://www.caseystengel.com/quotes.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-good-sex-take/443838.md?page=2)