The study also raised huge concerns about consent: 11% think a woman decides when sex is finished, over a third think that it will be the man who decides, and 38% think both decide.

Sarah Green, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, put it best, saying: “If we have a society thinking it’s fair enough for a man to pester a woman to have sex because he ‘needs’ it, that women are less likely to enjoy sex, that women’s orgasms are more difficult to achieve, that it’s routine for women to go along with sex for someone else’s sake, while still putting all the responsibility on women for preventing and ‘gatekeeping’ sex – rather than on the man for seeking consent and also working towards enjoyable experiences for both – then at best our aspirations are poor, and at worst we create a set of ready made excuses for sexual assault.”

This study proves society still gets so much wrong about female sexuality