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Victoria Johns

Love Island sex lingo: Manicures to NVQs - what the islanders are really getting up to

Every year the Love Island gang come up with new ways to describe getting busy between the sheets.

Their curious codes have included the NVQ scale and football terminology.

Fans would be forgiven for needing a dictionary to decode it all - so we've put together a handy guide.

Giving a manicure

After their steamy session in the hideaway, Tasha Ghourie denied she'd done the deed with Andrew Le Page.

"I just gave him a manicure," she purred.

The girls in the villa thought the 'code' was hilarious as Tasha made a hand gesture to fully explain what she meant.

But fans on Twitter were horrified by the euphemism.

They claimed the contestant had ruined the beauty treatment for them.

Meanwhile, Dami asked Andrew whether Tasha had 'touched his telescope'.

We hope you're keeping up.

NVQ terminology

This started from last year's contestant Faye Winter, who coined the phrase for her antics with Teddy.

NVQ entry level is a snog whereas NVQ 3 would be the full shebang.

Fans wanting to use the code in sentence would say: "I got an NVQ2 with Teddy last night."

Ooh er!

Faye started the NVQ ananlogy (ITV)

Football code

Islander Chloe Burrows explained that "One all" is mutually experimenting with your partner.

"One all. You did something, I did something, we both had a very happy ending," she explained.

Chloe and Toby are still going strong a year after meeting in the villa, so it looks like the sharing principle is working for them.

"One nil" however is when only one of the couple benefits - selfish, we say.

Chloe explained the football terminology (Instagram)

The Broken eagle

During her first conversation with fishmonger Luca Bish, paramedic Paige Thorne made a surprising confession.

The Welsh wonder, 24, revealed her favourite sexual position was the Broken Eagle.

According to Paige, the move involves lying in bed with one leg out straight and the other bent at the knee.

Sounds like a lot of effort.

Paige revealed her favourite position was the Broken Eagle (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

The Oyster

Sticking with sexual positions and the fish theme, Luca told Paige his favourite move was the Oyster.

Luca revealed his favourite sexual position (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

"My one, my favourite sex position is the oyster? Your legs are like, up in the air…,"he mused.

With his line of work, he should have plenty of experience.

The Do Bits Society/DBS

The Do Bits Society , also known as DBS, was a members-only club for Islanders who'd officially got it on in the villa.

The club was founded in 2018 by Islander Wes Nelson after he got to know Laura Anderson a little better.

Sadly the couple didn't last the distance and Laura is now shacked up with Dane Bowers in Dubai.

Wes Nelson started the DBS club (James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

F***y flutters

This is one of Maura Higgins'.

The former ring girl told the contestants she would feel the sensation when she saw a boy she liked.

After that cringe moment with Tommy on the sofa, we dread to think what was going through her...mind.

It is what it is (Supplied by WENN)

It is what it is

Probably our favourite saying since Love Island began.

First coined by Sherif Lanre on Season five when none of the girls stepped forward for him in the savage debut show, it basically means there's nothing you can do about it.

The Islanders continue to use the phrase, which sums up perfectly the light-hearted approach they should be taking to the whole experience.

Love Island is on ITV2 at 9pm

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