There were 277 complaints about noisy sex between 19 February 2021 and 9 February 2022, according to analysis by Patch.

Residents complained of “sex mayhem” and pleaded with police to “stop these sex addicts”, The Guardian reports.

The worst afflicted area was Queens with 103 complaints, followed by Manhattan with 66, Brooklyn with 55, the Bronx with 48 and Staten Island with just four.

One complaint reads: “To get a sense of how disruptive they are, I’ve slept through earthquakes and fires in my life … I couldn’t sleep through this.”