If you keep faking orgasm you’ll never reach it

Q: I am a 50-year-old divorced female who fakes her orgasms. I met a nice man last year and it was so wonderful just to be having sex that I sometimes told him that I’d come. He is so pleased with this, I now can’t bear to tell him the truth. What should I do?

A: If it is any consolation, you are not the first woman to make this mistake and you won’t be the last.

Faking it is far more common than anyone is prepared to admit. In fact, according to a US survey by Couples Company, which gives advice and information to heterosexual couples, 81% of women have faked it at some point.