EAT YOUR ♥ OUT!

City ladies agree: Food beats sex

Even man-eaters prefer eating over men.

About 74 percent of Big Apple ladies crave “amazing food” over “amazing sex,” according to a new survey of 3,000 women by a health Web site.

“I’ll take buttery shrimp fajitas over a night of sex any day,” said Ari Katech. “They’re always delicious and even sexy!”

The 26-year-old Brooklynite thinks most men simply “don’t know how to please a woman.”

“A lot of them don’t know up from down when they’re messing around in that area,” she said. “It’s like a freefor-all, and it’s awkward to have to keep correcting them.”

She prefers a good meal because it’s “only about you.”

“There’s never a part,” she said, “where you have to do what some- one else wants or exert effort in some way.”

Maya, 39, of Manhattan, confided, “When you have a really good meal, you enjoy everything about it from start to finish, from the atmosphere, to the service and, of course, the way it tastes.

“With sex, one part of it might be good, like climaxing, but the entire thing usually isn’t.”

Jennifer Chen, 23, of Manhattan, declared, “It’s no contest, food is better.”

“You remember that great restaurant where you had that amazing dish, but you don’t remember the exact date you had good sex with someone,” she said.

The survey of city women between the ages of 25 and 65 was conducted by Everyday Health to shed light on women’s perception of their wellness in the current climate of near daily sexual-harassment claims and high infertility rates, said Lisa Kennedy, the Web site’s executive vice president.

The results, released exclusively to The Post, also found that only 22 percent of ladies are “satisfied” with their sex lives, while 16 percent reported never having satisfying sex.

About 24 percent of respondents said they have satisfying sex monthly, 29 percent have it weekly and only 4 percent daily.

Poor body image doesn’t help. When it comes to thinking of themselves in their birthday suits, 66 percent of respondents said they “cringe” instead of “smile.” One expert says female dissatisfaction might be rooted in how women were long conditioned to think of themselves as givers rather than takers.

“Only 25 percent of women have orgasms through intercourse,” said Dr. Christiane Northrup, a national wellness expert and former OB-GYN professor at Maine Medical Center. “We short change ourselves by failing to understand the true power of our pleasure.

“The extent of the clitoral anatomy — inside and out — wasn’t even known in medical circles until the last five years or so,” she added.

But local ladies aren’t letting the lack of fireworks get them down, as more than 50 percent say they never worry about their love or sex lives and only 16 percent think about it daily.