So I’ve been thinking about it, and I’m quite certain, that canonically, Greg is probably the best lover on the show.
Sherlock would be unpredictable – either too intense, or too detached.
John would be very gentle and soft, alternating with fierce passion, but I feel like it’d be at the wrong times. Like, you need passion, and he’s gentle, or you need soft and he’s wild.
Irene has a specific skill set, but that means she’s also only best for a specific subset. And everything seems to indicate that her relationship with Kate is no exception.
Sally and Anderson cheat. Even that aside, I imagine Sally, giving everything she’s had to fight against her whole life to end up where she is, would refuse to let go and share the necessary vulnerability that makes sex truly spectacular. Anderson is woefully unobservant. He’d do the same things, not noticing what made you gasp with pleasure as compared to gasp in discomfort.
Mycroft would be too proper, if he deigned to his bodily needs at all. I feel like to lose any ounce of control would burst the damn so to speak, and so he’d be just as controlled in sex as he is in a diplomatic meeting.
Molly, I think would be perfectly lovely, albeit unadventurous. She’s mostly unobtrusive, and even in season 3, as she learns to speak up for herself more loudly, I can see that translating to getting the pleasure she wants. Whereas perhaps in the past, she’d just accept that she didn’t always achieve climax. (I’ll bet she does now, though).
Anthea is shrouded in too much mystery to make a good call. I daresay she likes the power and touch of intrigue, and that she’d be more turned on by the courtship than the sex itself.
Mrs Hudson might have won a few decades ago, but you know she’s got that hip now, dear.
I think it’s safe to say that Moriarty probably doesn’t take his sexual partner’s wants and needs into high consideration.
But Greg.
Greg.
Greg, who can see the good in Sherlock, despite the coarse personality Sherlock puts on, who can concede when he is out of his depth and ask for help? Greg, who can make the power play when he needs to, who knows when to push, and when to relent. Who rises to occasion when he’s needed, but doesn’t involve himself where he’s not needed. Greg can play the bad guy, the good guy, and anyone in between. He hopes for the best; gives second chances, and cares so much about what he does.
Now translate all that.
Greg, very much living in the moment, seeing the best of you, knowing when to ask what you like, and knowing how to find what you like just as well. Instinctively being the good, soft, gentle lover, or the rough, passionate fuck, because he always rises to the occasion. He knows when you need space, when you need comfort; he knows when to tell you what he needs, and he knows when it’s time to lay back and let you take what you need.
Not to mention:
(Of course this all assumes they are at the very least, not sex-adverse, and likely demi and/or allosexual. I think that many of the characters could be read in a variety of ways regarding their sexuality. This is just one interpretation.)
