Tips! How We Made Our Sex Lives Hotter

Nine women get real about how they upped their sex game. Find out what they did, why it works, and exactly what you can do for the same OMG results.

- Julia Dennison

‘What conditioner do you use?’ she asked

 Girl Meets Guy. Girl Gets Guy. Girl and Guy Have crazy-Hot sex. Girl Marries Guy.

GIRL AND GUY... DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH CRAZY-HOT SEX ANYMORE.

This was my life after 13 years of being with my husband—a lovable Brit I met while studying abroad in college. If my story sounds familiar, it’s probably because married sex gets a bad rap for being a lot less inspired than I want you on this table now newly dating sex. And TBH, it kind of gets the rep it deserves: according to data collected last year by the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey, a whopping 27 percent of married Indian couples are getting some only once in one or two months and 18 percent say they never get it on at all! When you pair that with a 2015 study in the Journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science that says the happiest couples have sex at least once a week, you can see why my single friends give me pitying glances while regaling me with their juiciest dating-life recaps.

Then, my husband and I finally decided to give baby-making a shot. If you’re not yet immersed in the joyful world of fertility-tracking, the idea basically goes like this: the more sex that you have in a month, the better your chances are of conceiving. So we were off to the races.

At first, having more sex was a matter of giving him more nods to head to the bedroom, but that got old fast, since we were falling back on the same old