A recent survey of 400 residents of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City has revealed that nearly one-third of female respondents 'occasionally fake orgasm' to boost their spouse’s ego, local newswire VnExpress reported on Monday.

The figure made up part of the results of the survey on urban marital life conducted by Turn Insight to Action (TITA) Market Research on 400 people aged 18 to 55 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2015-2016.

The results were published on Saturday, revealing that 31 percent of women occasionally faked their orgasms for fear of hurting their partner’s feelings, despite feeling "very happy" or "normal" about their marriage. The corresponding result amongst men was 16 percent.

Both groups of respondents agreed that the key factor affecting the quality of sex is understanding. Three quarters of "very happy" couples regularly talk with each other and care for the other person’s feelings, while slightly less than half of "normal" couples are comfortable talking about sex with their partner.

“I couldn’t achieve climax at first, and I wasn’t sure if my husband did either. We didn’t share our thoughts at the time because we were shy. It was only two years ago that we began to sit down with each other and have the talk, and things have gotten so much better since,” one respondent confessed.

The survey also confirmed that couples engage in sex less frequently as they get older. Those who have been married for less than ten years 'get busy' as often as two to three times a week, compared to once or twice a month amongst those married for more than 20 years.

Couples who 'clean their pipes' more often tend to describe their partner as "excellent in bed.”

The average duration of sexual intimacy among respondents is 23 minutes, including foreplay, with most cases lasting for somewhere between ten and 20 minutes. Notably, 12 percent of those who feel their marriage is “normal” said their “sexy times” lasted just under ten minutes.

Only five percent of participants attribute failure to achieve orgasm to their partner’s poor bedtime maneuvers, pointing out other factors such as stress, distraction, lack of understanding, health problems, or shyness.

Financial problems also take their toll on people’s sex lives. One male respondent said, “We were getting intimate the other night when she asked, ‘Have you been paid this month?’, which was a massive mood killer so we just stopped right there!”

“We were in the middle of it when I suddenly remembered that he hadn’t handed me his salary, so confusion took over and I couldn’t enjoy sex anymore,” another female respondent said.

The research team said that couples should avoid seeing 'nooky' as a chance to satisfy an obligation, but rather as an opportunity to deepen their affection for each other.

Phan Quang Thinh, CEO of TITA and head of the research team, said, “Respondents claimed that sex was not an important factor in marriage, but our analysis has proven otherwise. This is not surprising, as sex is a sensitive topic, so shyness was common among participants. However deep down, they all believed that sex was crucial to a happy marriage.”

The results may also explain why husbands who found their wives to be excellent partners in bed have a stricter definition of fidelity. 85 percent of them thought having sex with prostitutes was adulterous, compared to 68 percent among those who were not satisfied in bed.

The percentage of women found to be faking orgasms in this survey was the same as a similar poll on French women conducted last year by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP).

France topped the chart when it came to faking orgasms, with 31 percent of French women admitting to "regularly faking it" with their current partner, beating respondents from Canada, Italy, the U.S., Germany, the UK, Spain, and the Netherlands.

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