Vibrator Capital of Britain

Coventry is the vibrator capital of Britain - according to a sex survey released today.

Fifty seven per cent of people (mainly women) like using the sex toy on their own, closely followed by Sheffield (56%) and Swansea (54%).

Sixty-two per cent of women and 82% of men (72% on average) also wish they made love more often, the poll found.

Around a third (31%) of people across the UK have sex twice a week but 22% make love less than once a month. One in 10 has sex every day. Women are more unfaithful than men, according to the survey of more than 3,000 people.

Some 40% of females said they have cheated, compared with 34% of men.

And 21% of all respondents to Durex's Big Sex Survey fantasise about having sex with someone else while making love to their partner.

Respondents are most likely to fantasise about a good friend of the opposite sex (41%) or a work colleague (22%), while 13% secretly lust after their partner's friend.

More than one in 10 women (12%) said they sometimes fantasise about having sex with a good friend of the same sex, compared with 4% of men who do the same.

A third of women (34%) fantasise in general about lesbian sex, compared with 14% of men who have gay fantasies.

Around half of women (47%) fantasise once or twice a day about love-making, while one in four men (26%) think about it 10 times a day.

One of respondents' favourite places for passing the time with sexual fantasies is at work (29%).

The survey also found that one in two (49%) women think the size of a potential lover's manhood does matter.

Just over half of women (52%) use a vibrator on their own, while 36% get turned on by using pornography when there is no-one around.

Nearly a third (31%) keep their solo sexual activities secret from their boyfriends or husbands.

Seven out of 10 men (69%) watch or read pornography alone but they are more secretive about the habit - half (51%) do not tell their partners.

More than one in five (22%) respondents want to spice up their love lives with a threesome, bondage, swinging, or having rough sex, but are too afraid to ask.

Britons' favourite means of adding excitement are talking dirty (33%), watching porn together (28%) and rough sex (19%).

Bradford in West Yorkshire is the most randy city in Britain - nearly one in four (23%) people there make love every day.

It is followed by Swansea, where 20% of respondents have sex daily, then Coventry (13.3%), Edinburgh (13%) and Newcastle (12%).

People in Sunderland are most dissatisfied with the amount of sex they are getting - eight out of 10 want more.

Nationwide, most people have notched up between one and five sexual partners (44%) or between six and 10 (22%).

On average, 3.5% of respondents have slept with more than 50 people.

Scotland has some of the most promiscuous people - more than 8% of respondents in Aberdeen have slept with over 50 partners, and more than 7% from Glasgow have done the same.

Aberdonians are also top of the cheats' league - 50% of them admit having been unfaithful to a partner.

Perhaps most worryingly, more than 22% of people sometimes, rarely or never wear a condom when sleeping with a partner and one in 10 has picked up a sexually transmitted infection.

Despite the grumbling about not getting enough sex, most respondents (63%) in the Durex survey said they are generally content with their sex lives.