Lee Suckling: Why sex in hotels is better

Physically being in a new place helps you escape wherever you came from, which can be good for intimacy and creating a sexual spark. Photo / Getty Images

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Hotels are synonymous with couples and sexy time. There's something about those crisp white sheets that just screams, "you're here to make love!"

Hotels are always the first place that newlyweds spend their first night together as a married couple. Clients meet escorts in hotels. Hotels are used for vacations away from kids, for affairs, for kinky parties… you name it. The sexual acts that have gone down in any given hotel bed are things you probably don't want to know about.

Why is hotel sex better than at-home sex? There's a historical link here – hotels and brothels were once one-in-the-same in many parts of the world. In London's Covent Garden in the 18th Century, for example, the area was known for its night-time entertainment and was a hive for the sex work industry. Going to a room that wasn't yours for an hour (or the night) purely for physical intimacy was exactly why you ventured
into that neighbourhood.

With that illicit notion seared into the minds of our ancestors (and passed down generation after generation), hotels still have that sexy vibe about them today. Here are the other reasons hotel sex is better.

The rooms are clean (or at least appear to be)

Without going into what you'd find on the hotel walls if you illuminated them with a blue light, hotel rooms are immaculately clean. At least as far as the eye can tell. This minimal approach and lack of mess, fuss, and dirt makes it easier not to worry about anything.

Hotels are clean slates where you aren't reminded of the bills sitting on your desk or the dishes piling up in the kitchen. This cleanness gives you a sense of freedom, which is the perfect catalyst for sex.

Hotels are where you are pampered

Cosy white bathrobes, champagne, massages and facials… hotels are where you go to be pampered. These places try to excel at making you feel relaxed and give you permission to indulge.

This is something we rarely experience at home. You are blessed with the gift of time – something many couples struggle with – which is perhaps the most luxurious (and sexy) thing of all.

Being in a new place

Hotel stays and holidays go hand-in-hand. When you're in a new place your brain surges in dopamine because it is excited about new surroundings – you get the same effect when you see a new city's skyline for the first time, or even open a gift.

Physically being in a new place helps you escape wherever you came from, which can be good for intimacy and creating a sexual spark.

There's anonymity

When you have sex at home, you probably close your curtains so your neighbours can't see in, and keep the noise down so nobody can hear you.

In a hotel room, there's a sense of anonymity and you feel like you can get away with exhibitionism because it won't get traced back to you. You can be as freaky as you like and don't have to worry about what others might see or think.

You get to leave

At the end of a hotel stay, you leave everything behind you. Your bed stays unmade, the towels get thrown in the bathtub, and the rubbish gets cleared by somebody else. This makes everything that happened in that hotel room feel stuck in a time capsule.

Just like people have done in risqué parts of town for hundreds of years, hotel sex is good because when you're finished, you're paying somebody else to do the admin while you simply walk away.