BRIDGERTON’s hunky Duke of Hastings is a bedroom flop compared to the man on the street, lasting just 37 seconds on average between the sheets – way below the 5.4 minutes recorded by the average Brit.
The lusted-after character’s embarrassingly brief encounters in the Netflix series “warrant clinical concern” according to a 2008 US study that set the benchmark for an “adequate” session at three minutes.
Regé-Jean Page’s, 31, on-screen alter ego never goes longer than 62 seconds in the six sex scenes seen from beginning to end.
His quickest quickie with wife Daphne, played by Phoebe Dynevor, 25, is over in just 22 seconds.
The Duke also falls behind the 67 per cent of men who claimed to perform oral sex on their partner every time or “most” of the time in a 2017 survey.
He is only seen pleasuring Daphne twice in the couple’s nine partial and full sex scenes, putting him in the 21 per cent of correspondents who answered “occassionally”.
The Duke also takes almost twice as long as the average man to charm Daphne into bed on their wedding night.
The pair go on nine dates after their first public appearance in episode one – three romantic strolls, three balls, a picnic, a trip to a teashop and a gallery party.
In another 2017 survey of 2,000 adults, men reported waiting five dates on average before having sex, while women said they only slept with a new partner after eight.
Bridgerton’s breakout star Phoebe, daughter of Corrie actress Sally Dynevor, 57, revealed this week that her most challenging scene involved her pretending to masturbate.
She told Glamour: “That was the hardest scene to shoot. That’s saying something, because there were a lot of difficult scenes to shoot. You feel very vulnerable in those scenes.
“We did the intimate scenes like stunts—we blocked them out, so you have yoga balls in between you and all sorts of things that never make you feel exposed in any way. You always feel safe.
“I’d rehearse with Regé so much that we both knew what we were doing. It felt very practical.”
Netflix announced on Wednesday that Bridgerton is its most-watched original series ever, reaching 82 million households.
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