Better Sex with a Better Mattress
If you could make a mattress that guaranteed better sex, you'd be in business. And what a great selling point.
The mattresses industry is fiercely competitive, and if you've ever gone through the experience of shopping for a new mattress, with so many brands (and types) to choose from, how can you discern the good from the bad?
Well, leave it to the pros in the bed industry to time this survey right: this week when Valentine's Day hits, you might hear about a new survey reporting that innerspring mattresses make love go round.
That's right: the bedding industry's leading spring producer--Leggett and Platt--have just conducted a survey of more than 1,000 Americans in committed relationships. Both men and women responding rated an innerspring mattress as the best sleep surface for sex, as opposed to foam or an air bed.
FYI: Leggett and Platt manufacture component parts that go into the making of beds; the company just introduced its Starry Night Sleep Technology--a high-tech bed that includes devices to monitor sleep, detect and prevent snoring via tilting action, heating and cooling elements, and even a means to project high-def images on a wall screen. The price? Between $20,000 and $50,000. Not sure if it's ideal for love-making, though.
The innerspring mattress is the most common mattress sold today. It's the kind with the coily springs in the middle--the types kids like to jump on because of the "bounce back." Thanks to that famous bounce back, 68 percent of respondents prefer an innerspring for sex, whereas 25 percent prefer foam and only a scant 7 percent point to air (sorry, but this begs the question: how many people have lots of experience with sex on an air mattress?)
The best part of the survey is it also found that most respondents believe that more sleep would be the best way to boost their sex lives. Duh! In fact, 54 percent of the men and 67 percent of the women agree that more sleep could invigorate their lusty lives. No one will argue that sleep deprivation robs one of the interest, drive for, and enjoyment in sex. So is the combination of an innerspring mattress and restful sleep the new Viagra? Maybe. But what gives the mattress-sleep combo a bigger punch is that it won't keep you awake longer than necessary. Sex, after all, can be a great way to prepare for sound sleep. Anecdotal evidence alone says it acts like a sedative in most people--especially men.
Selecting a mattress is a personal choice. (I go into great detail about mattresses in my book, Beauty Sleep, if you need a roadmap.) Go with what your body tells you when you test out the different types and brands in stores. Just don't try to get it on while shopping. And don't judge a mattress by its name, celebrity endorsement, use your gut, er, your sexual instincts.
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12 Comments:
A firm innerspring mattress stays in place. Nothing is more distracting than a push resulting in your partner being moved 3 - 6 inches away from you.
Air and water beds have both the displacement issue and, in addition, you have to account for the harmonic of the bed.
Personally, I don't like that much distraction.
I happen to own four kinds of beds...water with a bladder, water in tubes, air and innerspring. I prefer the tube waterbed hands down. The tubes push back but don't push around plus I love the warmth of the heated water...we women like to be warm.
it's not about sleep... it's about the surface you prefer to have sex on. my boyfriend prefers the floor... no 'bounceback' at all! :-) i prefer something not bouncy too.
The floor is good if the fellow is on the floor. Other then that I think the good ol coily springs are fine. If your bed is firm, its even better.
Usually end up on the floor, so there must be something to it. Now, if I can only get my wife to joing me...
my husband & me prefer to do it somewhere not on bed anymore. He wants to do it on the table, etc. We are more on experimenting somewhere away from bed.
anywhere is ok.we like to do it on the couch but the floor is ok especially if I am behind her.
We seldom use the bed, the sex swing and a body bouncer are much better.
Gee, I must have been having sex all wrong for the past 25 years. Woman on top sex calls for a bouncy soft mattress which gives a good bounce back and is soft on the knees, feet, legs. I have an orgasm 100% of the time in this position with this mattress.
I have to work too hard with a non bouncy mattress like our Tempurpedic and have raw knees on the floor.
my husband and i are like many of you we go were ever we want to. but have to becareful because of our roommate. he loves having sex in our closet because its dark and quiet. i prefer the bathroom sink or in the kitchen, because we could get cought. its more fun that way.
me and my husdan are now getting in to sex becouse our bed sinkes when where on top of eack outher we ony been together for years now where like bunny rabets
Oh my goodness! I have always had the obviously erroneous idea that anyone old enough to marry and/or have sex should also be able to spell words like 'husband'...or any other words for that matter.
my experience: futons are sex killers. they tend to be hard and just slightly lumpy and have no springyness at all. Hard and very slightly springy surfaces are nice. That could be anything form a tatami matt to a hi-tech or coil mattress as far as I'm concerned.
Bunk beds with any kind of mattress at all are sex killers. By the time you decide if you are going up with or without your PJ's, get up there and clumsily get undressed in something the size of a crawl space and bonk your head on the ceiling a few times you are no longer very interested in what sort of mattress you might be doing it on, nor in doing it at all. My husband has a nice mattress with hard rubber foam cones inside of it that act like spring coils but are smoother, quieter, and more evenly placed than box springs. It is now thankfullly finally only 25 inches from the floor and no longer accessible only by seven steps on a ladder.
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