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American men can pat themselves on the back. A new magazine survey finds that they make great lovers, especially artists, mechanics and truck drivers although the latter group falls asleep quicker than any other after sex.

A recent survey in Redbook magazine said that more than 60 percent of America's married women rank their sex lives as excellent or very good. And the survey also found that the job a man does during the daytime affects his performance at night.

Artists won high praise from the wives and doctors were faulted. But the worst group of lovers, according to the survey of 400 American women, was computer workers. They seemed more interested in ‘monitoring’ sex.

Almost half of artists' wives ranked their husbands as excellent, with 73 percent claiming full satisfaction. Artists beat the competition at foreplay with 100 percent of them ranked as taking their time. Thirteen percent of artists' wives in the survey did, however, complain of too much foreplay.

Salesmen are the most frequent lovers with 14 percent rising to the task daily, the survey said. Though salesmen's wives complain that it's over in a flash.

The survey found that computer technical specialists were least likely to accommodate their wives when she wants sex and he doesn't, and the least likely to give or take oral sex.

Overall, American men got two thumbs up, with 71 percent of women saying they were in sync with their husbands and sex lasted the perfect time smashing the “myth that women want it to last much longer than men,'' Raffel said.

After artists, other professions most likely to satisfy were truck drivers, mechanics and managers.

Truck drivers topped the survey for ``most likely to introduce edible underwear into lovemaking'' with more than a quarter of them having produced some during sex. But after sex, a truck driver is three times more likely to fall asleep immediately than any other profession, the survey said.

All told, despite high marks for romance and cuddling, doctors rank poorly. More than a third of doctor's wives complained it was over too quickly. So much for their bedside manor...

The survey said that almost half of small business owners experiment with new positions or sex toys and are also six times more likely to produce whips and handcuffs than other groups.

And men in uniform? Firefighters and police are twice as likely to fully satisfy their wives as the average man.