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Published 16:24 24 May 2026 GMT
Social media users have flocked to the comments of an X post to share their top tips on how to improve your sex life with one simple trick.
People’s preferences around sex positions often come down to comfort, intimacy, pleasure, and emotional connection. Some couples prefer classic positions like missionary because it allows eye contact and closeness, while others enjoy positions that offer deeper stimulation, more control, or a sense of excitement and variety.
Preferences can also shift depending on mood, confidence, physical comfort, or relationship dynamics. Open communication tends to play a big role, as partners who talk honestly about what they enjoy are often more comfortable exploring different experiences together while respecting each other’s boundaries and desires.
Now here's where the viral X post comes in.
A conversation on the topic was sparked by a man posing the question, “What’s a sex position that looks basic but actually makes you orgasm way faster than the popular ones?”
Presumably seeking advice on how to pleasure his partner more successfully, he lucked out as almost 400 people, mainly women, responded with tips and recommendations of simple positions to try.
The most popular answer was easily a simple twist on one of the most basic sex positions, missionary.
One X user spilled their top trick, writing, “Missionary with a pillow under the hips: looks basic AF, but she’s seeing stars in under 5 minutes.”
In agreement, another user chimed in with, “standard missionary used to bore me to tears until I learned how to tilt my hips just right. Now it literally takes less than two mins for my entire body to start shaking. Completely game changing”.
If you’ve never heard of it before, all you have to do is put a pillow under the woman’s pelvis in order to increase pleasure.
Tilting the pelvis increases the pressure put on the woman’s G-spot through penetration as it sits in the wall of the vagina closer to the stomach.
A TikToker who specialises in sex education, Sassy Red, shared a video which has since been deleted, endorsing the benefits of having sex with a pillow, and it reached over 20 million views and 7,000 comments, with people agreeing it feels so much better.
Explaining why it works in the video, she said, “Putting a pillow underneath simply tilts the pelvis forward, allowing the vaginal canal to straighten, making access to the G-spot easier and allowing the penis/dildo to stimulate the anterior vagina.
“In simple terms, you’re able to hit more of those 8,000 or so nerve endings that live around the vagina.”
However, she did add that the same tricks do not work for everyone. Red said, “If this ‘hack' works for you, then that’s fantastic, but it might not work for everyone, and you shouldn’t force it to work either. What feels good for one person may be totally different for another. Just find what works for you and have a hell of a lot of fun in the process.
“Sex is all about trying different things with a partner who is supportive and open – that’s the best kind of sex! So focus on that, and not what the internet says.”
