Could you tell if your man, ahem, ‘faked it’ in the bedroom? According to a new book, a third of us wouldn’t know the difference if our  fella added a few theatrics to his performance.

The Daily Mail reports that Dr. Abraham Morgentaler has spent a whopping 25 years research the male orgasm and he’s come (no pun intended!) to some interesting conclusions. Apparently a third of men regularly fake their throes of passion and their reasoning is pretty much the same as ours: they do it to spare our feelings.

According to Dr. Morgentaler, women tend to take it more personally than men if their partner doesn’t have an orgasm, so most men fake it as a way to avoid making a dent in our self-confidence.

And now the question we’ve been dying to ask: if a man fakes it, how does he explain the lack of ‘evidence’ at the end?

Dr Morgentaler says that condoms make it easier for men to fake an orgasm

Apparently us women don’t even notice the absence of eh, evidence. Dr. Morgentaler says that most couples have sex last thing at night and conk out immediately after the sex is over, meaning our wits aren’t at their most keen.

Dr Morgentaler said that two thirds of the men he studied over a 25 year period regularly got away with faking an orgasm.

Do you think you could tell if he faked it?