From children and work to exhaustion, changing bodies and shifting desire, long-term intimacy rarely stays the same. What matters isn’t matching the past — but understanding what has changed. One of the more unsettling moments in a long relationship is realising that you don’t have sex like you used to. Perhaps there was a time […]
Every day, once a week or hardly ever? A sexologist explains what your answer really says about your sex drive — and why there may be no such thing as a “normal” amount. For something so personal, sexual desire is surprisingly easy to measure ourselves against other people. We compare ourselves with partners, friends, statistics, […]
Once a week? Three times a week? A few times a month? And if you’re having less than that, should you be worried? It is surprisingly easy to believe there is a correct answer. Search online and you’ll find statistics about how often couples supposedly have sex, alongside endless conversations about libido, “dead bedrooms” and […]