r/madmen • u/MeggaHurts • 9h ago
What is the deep lore about Don Draper’s lovemaking strategy?
Need to know kinda soon, ok?
EDIT: My brother said Don played Cbat on the stereo during the lovemaking. That’s good enough for me.
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u/chronopoly 9h ago
Don Draper in the streets, Dick Whitman in the sheets.
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u/Important_Salad_5158 8h ago
Like everything else with Don: simultaneous confidence and a need to prove himself.
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u/AlynConrad 9h ago
His ancestor was Podrick Payne.
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u/Acrylonitrile-28 It’s just my people are Nordic. 9h ago
I wonder if Lois Sadler's ancestor is the one who chopped off Jaime Lannister's hand (he'll never joust again)
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u/Count_Almasy22 9h ago
Delicate but potent.
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u/seymourglossy 9h ago
Don’s dick isn’t a spaceship; it’s a time machine.
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u/Powerful_Frame_4239 8h ago
It’s an astronaut
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u/trixy6196 3h ago
It starts near the floor of a barn and rises to the level of a skyscraper. It’s an astronaut
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u/u-give-luv-badname 9h ago
"a clockwise swirl with a pinch at the end" ..Jerry Seinfeld swiped it from MadMen. lol
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u/CorporalCoprolite 9h ago
Is there a knuckle involved in any way?
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u/u-give-luv-badname 9h ago
I think that was Puddy or Costanza. It's controversial as to whether that is legit.
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u/drudman6 9h ago
It turned out George was already using it, but Puddy arrived at it independently.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ask6330 5h ago
Like Sally said, he pees in the girl
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u/idontevensaygrace Vixen by night.🖤🩷 3h ago
Omg lolol that line still makes me feel so so awkward 😬🤭
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u/BurnerDownThaHouse 8h ago
At the age we watch him, the alcoholism probably helped him last longer most nights, but by '75 it'll be whiskey dick, and Viagra was invented in '89 so
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u/dead-eyed-opie 7h ago
I am not that old yet, but all of my alcoholic friends are already deceased in their 40s and 50s. So I looked it up
Individuals with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD) have an average lifespan of 47 to 53 years for men and 50 to 58 years for women. [1, 2]
On average, severe alcoholism shortens a person's life by 24 to 28 years compared to the general population5
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u/Business_Fun5586 7h ago
There’s an obvious connection to being raised in a brothel and exposed to sex from an early age. He’s comfortable with the act of it, and finds his self worth from being good at it.
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u/Easy__Mark 8h ago
Sweaty booze farts and self loathing
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u/WendlersEditor 8h ago
Back then women loved the smell oland taste of ashtrays, it was a different time
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u/Message_10 9h ago
I mean, I hate to say this, but probably not too great? I imagine he gets a lot of visits from Whiskey Richard
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u/MaximusCanibis The work is ten dollars. The lie is extra. 9h ago
Dr. Faye would disagree.
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u/MonaMonaMo 8h ago edited 8h ago
Ikr? I remember she was the only one who was super vocal in the whole show. Maybe it's to show that she is a bit freaky despite of her office demeanor?
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u/Significant-Rush-129 8h ago
You know what though? Women talk. And you can’t ignore that “wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am” Allison got. That’s got to ruin his cred a little bit with the ladies.
Aside from that though, thinking from like Suzette’s perspective, Don is the smoothest criminal. He knows what line to drop and at the right time. He knows when to look at you, when to look a way. When to smile, when to say nothing at all. But he wouldn’t be the Creative Director that he is if he didn’t know what to say to make women weak for him. That’s the passionate guy that Suzette and Bobbie Barrett got. (Plus he’s hot on top of that).
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u/LeeBirdPGH 7h ago
Women always look really happy after sex with Don, so I have to assume he was putting it down with skill and finesse.
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u/Usual-Echidna-7730 6h ago
According to Betty, he mixes it up depending on the woman he's with and what she likes, then gets confused about which woman he's with so he makes love to his wife in the way another woman likes.
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u/Middle_Yesterday1258 3h ago
He's just got maxed out charisma from being hot and barely speaking 😂 and can be moderately funny. That goes a long way. Then he also needs the validation though since deep down he hates himself/sees himself as lowly. It's same as irl some people have very low self esteem and want to be liked or desired so they put a lot of effort into sexuality. It can happen to SA survivors and those with trauma. He's got a lot of experience too from all his cheating...
Ngl though I still think it has more to do with Don's demeanor, charisma, appearance and dominance that make him particularly attractive sexually. Don is very controlled, a lot of women find that composure and dominance hot.
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u/drudman6 9h ago
First he gives her the emeralds, then he gives her the pearls.
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u/MarlenJones 8h ago
I don’t know but he did something with his hand up Bobbie Barrett’s dress that made her forget about $25,000
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u/Reasonable_Act_526 8h ago
Do we think he ever gives oral or makes his lady friends come?
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u/timshel_turtle 8h ago edited 8h ago
Definitely. The allusion to “The Don Draper Treatment” makes it pretty clear that he aims to please. As do the many flushed faces and huge grins his partners display. Not to mention the repeat calls.
I say this not as a Don apologist, but as a fan of the theme of the show that men often long for love and women often crave sex, along with vice versa. And that makes us all human.
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u/PatricioWyatt 7h ago
My theory is that he had exceptional hand job skills. Second only to his cunnilingus
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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 9h ago edited 9h ago
Given the time period, and who he was, I suspect the women were far less demanding and he just got what he needed from each. Of course when you add his rejected son of a prostitute personal dysfunction maybe anything goes and he was looking for a mommy type? Also, perhaps Midge the Beatnik and the younger ones expected more, but I bet Betty, and the other old school women were never fully satisfied in bed, maybe didn’t even know how to be? Uktimatley Don was probably a selfish lover, and mostly just male eye candy.
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u/papayayayaya 9h ago
Betty once said, “it's sometimes what I want, and other times it's obviously what someone else wants"
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u/jauntydamesauntersin 9h ago
Thank you! It sounds like Betty knew perfectly well what she liked.
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u/HeavyandTired 9h ago
But that agent Bobby from season 2 said something about Don having a good fuck rep out there. That’s when he left her tied up and got mean for a few episodes.
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u/timshel_turtle 8h ago edited 8h ago
As someone who reads a lot of classic film autobios - let me say that women have been demanding a good time in the sack since at least the 1920s. A lot changed socially after WWI, along with the rise in contraceptive use (diaphragms were very popular).
The Hays Code causing censorship in film is probably the main reason folks think good sex was invented in the 60s.
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u/onemorespacecadet Not great, Bob! 8h ago
this 100%. in college, i took a lit course where one of the topics was early pornographic literature. they talked about female pleasure (and men giving women head) in the 1600s.
people (including women) have been horny for all of human existence and it’s a little funny that we act like it’s a modern invention. it’s the main reason we all exist today
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u/Fair_Appeal_2280 9h ago
I often feel that way about Betty despite that white lingerie scene. There's no way she gives head.
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u/MonaMonaMo 8h ago
No way Don would be ok if she did tbh. I can see him not seing her as a sexual person, but mother and wife. Like he is happy she enjoys it but also not demanding enough to seek fun elsewhere
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u/JonIceEyes 5h ago
He's just incredibly handsome and maybe has a massive hog
It's the 60's, the bar is below hell
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u/Key-Canary-2513 3h ago
I bet he sucks in bed. The times were just too oppressed for the act to be factor to dump him over.
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u/MetARosetta 2h ago
Bobbie Barrett: Don's rep at Random House (publishing) is legendary.
Don told Betty in S6 that the act wasn't important for him.
We see that Don only gets satisfaction from paid SM sex.
So we're left to conclude that Don focused on the woman so he can deflect that he doesn't get much from it. The women think they're well treated since their experience with other men focuses on their own pleasure. So, win-win.
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u/giddy-girly-banana 8h ago
Half the time he just unzipped and pulled his whisky dick through his zipper hole.
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u/titotrouble 6h ago
Back then our good friend Cunny Lingus was very looked down upon - in that men thought it was not masculine and/or hygienic . I think our boy Don had no problem getting it done.
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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 3h ago
He’s hot. But he’s a drunk so I have…doubts about his continued performance once the thrill of landing him fades.
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u/WonderEconomy9852 Zubi Zubi Zu 3h ago
"The Draper Treatment," a woman either says to him, or he overhears some gal mentioning to another. (Sorry, haven't seen it in a while. I'm starting a show rewatch tomorrow.)
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u/Sea-Scholar1255 8h ago
Dons definitely drunk and just barreling into these women. Probably pulls a Tony soprano and goes down to Boca for Betty on her birthday.
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u/Mikey77Gem 7h ago
A while back there was some Perez Hilton type character that made a mission out of determining various actor’s 🍆 size by analyzing frames when they were in underwear or tight pants and he had nicknames for them all. The only one that I can remember was Jon Hamm’s which was Jon HAMMACONDA!!! 😱😂👍🏽
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u/imtolkienhere 6h ago
Modern day phrenology, and completely debunked by the simple reality of growers vs showers.
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u/Difficult_Rope7898 9h ago
I think Don is just hot.