We've split the humble atom to create contentious nuclear energy, landed a probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and straddled the globe of friendship via Facebook. Being declared a god of love in bed by your partner is probably one of the last remaining accolades of today.
It doesn't matter if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, straight, ambiguous or ambidextrous, consider yourself a great lover if the following apply to you:
1. You're not afraid to get dirty
While many people are squeamish about heading into any sexual territories they consider “dirty” or kinky, like oral sex (some just won't go there), rimming, fisting, anal play, bondage, S&M, you recognise that sex is purely about pleasure. No area or activity is off limits - you're prepared to explore every avenue to discover what ultimately blows your partner's hair back.
2. You know your genitalia
You can name them and know exactly where to find them - vagina, labia minora and majora, cervix, urethral opening, urethral sponge (aka G-spot), clitoris, clitoral hood, PC (or pubococcygeus) muscle, perineum, anus, rectum, penis, glans of penis, scrotum, testicle, semen, vas deferens, prostate gland (P-spot), seminal vesicle, corpus spongiosum, corpus cavernosum. Better still, you know how to stimulate most of them - both yours and your lover’s.
3. You're hot for experience
It's not that you've done the deed with everybody in town and beyond - but you've pushed hard (if you'll excuse the pun) to make great sexual strides and break through your own barriers, in the same way that others work hard at their careers. You're prepared to try anything at least twice. You've discovered a range of wickedly alluring techniques, acts and positions and put theory into practice to ensure your lover screams for encores.
4. You focus on brain sex
You understand that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone and so this is where most of your sex play takes place - via fantasies, role-playing, erotica, building anticipation and catching your lover off guard with sexy surprises. You break the rules and throw caution to the wind - like dressing up in your lover's hottest underwear to see the effect it has on both of you, or offering to be a love slave for the entire day. Nor are you afraid of indulging your dark side in BDSM but you insist on sensible safety precautions.
5. You go one step beyond
Instead of staying with the same tried-and-tested boudoir routines, you look for new combinations of stimulation that intensify your lover's pleasure and take both your orgasms to new heights. While most people use only one part of their body to stimulate one area of their lover's body, you multi-task to great effect - using your tongue here, some fingers there and another finger up there. Your knack for multiple stimulation still takes your lover by surprise and traverses the different nerve pathways in gratifyingly pleasurable combinations.
6. You seek new experiences
Like a kid exploring their world for the first time, you use all your senses to seek fresh inspiration. You'll see pleasure potential in gadgets and mundane household items, way beyond the thrill of the humble cucumber. You track down weird and wonderful sex toys that your friends have never heard of and create novel sexual adventures most would sell their grannies for.
7. Your pleasure is from giving pleasure
You derive enormous satisfaction from bestowing a powerful orgasm on your partner and you hang in there for rounds two, three and four. Teasing and backing off until the inevitably scorching climax makes you feel omnipotent and skillful. You spend hours observing the response to your touches and memorise the precise spots that rain down with his or her drops of ejaculate. You thrill to your lover's intimate taste and smells, and devour the sexual sights and sounds with relish.
8. You're enthusiastic and responsive
Your enthusiasm for sex is infectious. You love making love whenever you can and you let your lover know you're lusting after them now. You're a skilful communicator in sexual intimacy, always checking whether what you're doing feels good and you hone your moves and techniques in response. When receiving pleasure, you're vocal and physically responsive to show when it feels great and still encouraging when less moved.
9. You make time to make love
While the average person spends two minutes a day on sex and two hours a day watching TV, according to sex and relationships writer Tracey Cox, sex remains your favourite form of entertainment. The boost you get from creating sexual tension and explosive releases gives you as much pleasure as your orgasmically satiated partner. You relish sex and pursue frequent pleasurable encounters, each one leaving you both longing for more.
10. You're sexually self-confident
Those irritating little bodily failures or incompatibilities during sex don't faze you one bit. When your erection goes soft before that elusive climax you switch to expert tongue action that guarantees a happy ending. Or when your vadge is still sore from rough sex you pop the lube to keep your hand action sweetly slippery, applying it to your breasts for an alternative glans massaging site. You view sexual differences and changes over time as challenges to hone your repertoire and mature your personal brand of sex like a fine wine.