Sex advice with Suzi Godson: My boyfriend is too noisy during sex

My new boyfriend is rather noisy in the bedroom. I find it mortifying that the neighbours can hear him so I’ve asked him to quieten down a little. He promised to rein it in but then seems to get carried away in the moment. It’s just so embarrassing for me.

We all have a duty to be considerate to our neighbours, but honestly, if you can’t have noisy sex in the privacy of your bedroom, where can you have it?

It’s not as if the noisy bit goes on for that long — the average male takes about 5.7 minutes to reach orgasm, so unless your walls are paper-thin, or your neighbours are exceptionally bad-tempered, I think you should stop worrying about what other people think.