I see the ladies are staying out of this one?
I do know that the woman I was married to for 20 years thought foreplay started with "Good Morning!" and ended with her orgasm somewhere around midnight.
There's something to that, guys. We tend to think of the sex act when we think of making love. Women put their total existence into the thing.
Phone calls from work to say you miss her, hovering a second longer when nuzzling her neck before dinner, compliments on her new dress - things like these are as much romantic foreplay to some women as a blowjob is to us men.