Ice-T and Coco Austin’s Most Candid Quotes About Sex

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To say the least, Ice-T and Coco Austin have been open about their intimacy throughout their two decades of marriage.

In November 2024, Austin, who has been married to Ice-T since 2002, spoke about how she believes you have to keep your sex life “healthy” to have a successful marriage. (The couple share daughter Chanel, born in November 2015.)

“I would say good and healthy is [having sex] three times a week,” she told E! News. “I think that’s good after 23 years. I think you have to keep it up.”

Austin went on to share what she and Ice-T are into in the bedroom — which includes masks!

“We [also] do a lot of date nights, going to dinner, getting dressed up for each other and [he picks] out what he wants me to wear,” she shared with the outlet.

Keep scrolling to learn more about what Ice-T and Austin have shared about intimacy through the years:

The Importance of Intimacy in a Long-Term Relationship

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“When you first get with somebody, you want to have sex, right?” Ice-T told E! News in October 2024. “If that ever ends, it’s a wrap. When that feeling goes away, forget about it.”

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“That flame has to stay lit,” Ice-T shared with E! News in January 2024. “When that flame goes out and you’re not really attracted to each other anymore, you have to address that very quickly because it’s something that’s necessary.”

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“I think Coco and I are teammates,” Ice-T told E! News in January 2024. “We have to be teammates, not opponents, not assets, not liabilities. I value what she brings to me, and I think it’s vice versa. We appreciate each other.”

Intimacy During Pregnancy

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“For me, in my pregnancy, I want to be touched all the time. It gets the hormone juices flowing,” Austin told HuffPost Live in July 2015 while pregnant with her and Ice-T’s daughter, Chanel.

Ice-T joked that “if the door slams or the wind blows” then Austin “gets horny.”

“They say when sex is good, it’s 20 percent of the relationship, but when it’s bad, it’s 80 percent of the relationship,” he explained. “For us, it’s the cherry on top of our relationship.”