While many of us tend to turn to erotica — whether visual, written, or audio — to get off, there’s something to be said for digging into the archives of your own sexual experiences. We often spend very little time reflecting on our sexual histories, so it’s easy to forget that the best sex we’ll ever see is the sex we have ourselves.

And you, dear readers, have some of the best sex out there. We know this from the stories you shared with us for our sex survey last year — and so, seeing as we’ve dedicated a whole mini mag to sexy tales in our June/July issue, we thought we’d crowdsource your hottest stories. This time, with a steamy summer twist...

Who needs porn when you can access memories like these, eh?

I do, I do, I do

“I fucked a random guy in the shared toilet at my friend’s wedding. I walked out of the cubicle to see a big queue of people watching me — clearly my moaning had been very loud.”

A summer of sexual tension

“I met a guy at a summer job and we spent the whole time flirting. I’d drop him home after work and, because he was a supervisor, he could lock up, so we used to stay behind to watch movies in the office. After weeks of sexual tension, we stayed behind and ended up having sex in the manager’s office. It had no shutters or blinds, so someone could walk by at any moment. The risk was part of the thrill!”

“No one knows how to fuck me like my ex”

“I broke up with my ex of about nine years and then rekindled with another ex from my early 20s. We met at a hotel during the day, as we live far apart, and had the hottest, steamiest sex of my life. It’s like we picked up right where we left off a decade ago. It seems no one knows how to fuck me like she does.”

Everyone's clicking on...

The language of lust

“I’m travelling across Central America and just had a two-day love affair with a local man in Guatemala who didn’t speak a word of English. And my Spanish is patchy. He still lived at home with his mum and I was staying with a local family, so the only option was the lakefront. It was a full moon and we decided to go skinny dipping — we hadn’t even kissed. One thing led to another and I found myself being picked up, put on a rock in the middle of the lake, and my boobs being lit up by moonlight as he went down on me.”

“I found myself on a rock in the middle of the lake, my boobs lit up by the moonlight as he went down on me”

An affair to remember

“During a summer internship when I was 20, I flirted with my boss who was twice my age. We started sneaking into the bathroom in the basement for sex twice a day [throughout] the whole summer. Hot steamy sex in a bathroom no one knew even existed. This summer, I’m going to his wedding. His wife-to-be had no clue.”

From birthday drinks to birthday suits

“[One summer], I went back to Crete with my family, to a place we’d visited often when I was a child. There was a Greek guy there who I’d always fancied. As it was my birthday, he took me out drinking. We ended up skinny dipping in the sea and he started touching me everywhere, kissing my neck etc, before carrying me into the seaside restaurant his family owned and taking me right there, hard and slow on the cool restaurant floor at about 4am.”

Holiday tranquillity

“My most amazing encounter has been with my long-term boyfriend. We were on holiday, having just been out at the beach all day, and were getting ready for an evening out. There was something about how we were so relaxed and needed to be with each other that it was just the most sensual time — and I came multiple times.”

Aye, aye, captain

“I met an Italian man when I was on holiday in Sardinia. He was in charge of the boat rentals and rented one out for me and my friend. Later, he found us in the ocean and let us each have a go on his jet ski. I met him on my own a few days later. We went on a boat, just me and him, and one thing led to another…”

“There was something about how relaxed we were on holiday that made it the most sensual time”

Alfresco sex season

“A summer of having sex in the most fun places: a picnic in the park, the sea (in the UK…), a treehouse, restaurant toilets. We were just so horny we did it everywhere. Take into account that he was 11 inches and often liked sending me out with a toy inside me. It was a wild, hot summer.”

A little holiday exhibitionism

“Once on holiday, I became extremely aroused by masturbating in semi-public, which turned into a daily experience with an audience of an older man. I felt empowered being able to make a man come just from watching me.”

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Brit Dawson
Sex & Relationships Editor
Brit Dawson is Cosmopolitan UK's Sex & Relationships Editor. Her work mostly delves into sexual subcultures, sex work, women's rights, and sex and relationships, exploring how each intersects with technology, politics, and culture. Formerly a staff writer at Dazed and MEL Magazine, she's written for British GQ, The Face, Slate, and more. She's also interested in drugs, youth and pop culture, and books — so all the good stuff. Find Brit on Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.