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Australian married women in their 30s want more sex but they don't think they're going to get it.
So, instead they are hoping for more interesting sex.
These are the findings from an Australian survey on the sex lives of married and de facto couples, reported in the Herald-Sun newspaper.
About 85 per cent of women in their 30s said they wanted more sex compared to 75 per cent of men in that age group.
They want a return to their 20s - 60 per cent of women that age said they were having sex at least every second day compared to 31 per cent of women in their 30s.
When asked what it would be if they could change one thing about their sex life, more than half of women wished for more interesting sex compared to 15 per cent who said more sex.
Of men in their 30s, 21 per cent said more sex.
Twenty-one per cent of all women said "longer-lasting sex". Only seven per cent of men gave this response.
When asked about what they would prefer to do given the choice between going to the movies, going out with friends, sleeping, eating, drinking or having sex, thirty-one per cent of women in their 30s would rather go out with friends. Only 10 per cent of men in that bracket gave that answer.
Thirty-eight per cent of women in their 30s picked sex compared to 68 per cent of men of that age.
Twenty-three per cent picked sleep - double the proportion of men.
The survey found that men are two to three times more likely to initiate sex - except for the over 50s where it is more likely to be a joint decision.
Barely half of men remained faithful by the time they reached that age. Forty-four per cent of men over 50 admitted to sex outside marriage or their de facto relationship. Fourteen per cent of men over 50 said they had had multiple affairs.
A third of surveyed men in their 40s said they had strayed, up from 23 per cent among those in their 30s.
