Tips for having a better orgasm that will not work for you, with the Mash sex columnist

SO impressed with yourself you’ve decided you’re too good for ordinary orgasms? Want to have the kind of exclusive seven-star M&S orgasm others simply cannot achieve? 

Reach beyond the everyday dockers’ spunk-shoot with these climax-plus tips guaranteed to put extra splash into your waterfall. And if they fail to work it’s your fault:

Abandon orgasm as a goal

‘There’s more to sex than an orgasm,’ says nobody worth listening to. Why, in the name of Sting, would anyone put up with all those secretions and odours and wiry hairs without the promised flash of ecstasy at the end of it? Nobody’s even going to bother pulling their jeans down to their knees. You’re not in this for the long game.

Genital-focused exercise

Get the blood flowing down there and reactivate your libido, you were promised when you signed up for a 5K. But now your hamstrings are so sore you wince watching porn and fall asleep during foreplay. The testosterone could be flowing through you like it was through Lance Armstrong in 2003, but you’re too knackered to know.

Delay gratification

Practised by the many, many boyfriends who never bothered to make you come, this time it’s a choice. Carrying each other to the very edge of climax then backing tantalisingly away is perfect for those with too much time and energy, ie the young who can orgasm twice an hour anyway. For you, with zero patience or restraint, it’s less popular and would eat into your nightly ritual of staring dead-eyed into space questioning your life choices.

Time it perfectly

Ladies, if you’re chasing the multiple orgasm dragon, get f**king during that hot, hot, 48 hours at the beginning of your cycle when you’re ultra sensitive and up for it. Except he’s bound to have a work trip those specific days, or to gorge on curry, and you’ll end up pleasing yourself because you’re super horny so when you actually have sex you’ve already come and fake it to stop him being crestfallen.

Up your connection

Forget foreplay of the frottage kind and try just being with your sexual partner. Choosing to communicate in person, not through Instagram, and spending a long evening not watching TV. Everyone who knows anything about good sex reaps the benefits of this advice. You both agree you’ll take a slightly worse orgasm over this torture.

Put in the work

The more you put in, the more you get out. But life is short and films are long. Can you be arsed spending the ever-decreasing years between now and the grave researching and applying better orgasm techniques? The perfunctory climaxes you’ve been managing so far will do just fine. Admit defeat and get your highs from hi-fi turntables and Bake-Off blooper reels.

Your astrological week ahead for April 27th, with Psychic Bob

Aries, March 21st–April 19th

Anyone’s who’s in a coercive relationship, raise their partner’s hand.

Taurus, April 20th–May 20th

Dress for the job you want, unless that job is as the extra playing a naked, decomposed cadaver pulled out of a canal in Silent Witness.

Gemini, May 21st–June 21st

Geminis find this horoscope fascinating, useful and predictive. They consider the financial advice sound and an improvement to their romantic prospects hopeful. They differ on the effect of Mercury entering their social zone. Who says AI can’t do astrology?

Cancer, June 22nd–July 22nd

You smugly know all the US state capitals, but if you met an American who knew all the English county towns you’d be disgusted. A Texan who’d heard of Shrewsbury? Urgh.

Leo, July 23rd–August 22nd

“We’re sorry, but the Tortured Poets Department is experiencing unusually high call volumes. You are number 27 in the queue. Please hold.” Three Lions plays for next 50 minutes.

Virgo, August 23rd–September 22nd

You’ve bought a robot hoover so now Henry can be your lover.

Libra, September 23rd–October 22nd

If you think you have a tough job, imagine being the member of the gang who has to design the logo.

Scorpio, October 23rd–November 22nd

Your nan doesn’t f**k about with mint tea. ‘You might as well be drinking piss’, she says, as if she knows all too well.

Sagittarius, November 22nd–December 21st

I was too chaotic for the Mafia. I had to work in disorganised crime instead.

Capricorn, December 22nd–January 19th

High five. Up high. Down low. Too slow. You felt a pit open up in your stomach just reading that.

Aquarius, January 20th–February 18th

But do they sell a Lego set that will mend your broken heart? Yes, they do, but it’s £489.99.

Pisces, February 19th–March 20th

“And how exactly would I go about ‘buggering off’? It seems a process fraught with difficulty.”