According to a report in today's Daily Mail, a quarter of British women over 35 say they "never" have sex. The figure rises to 38 per cent in Scotland, while women in the Midlands are most likely to have sex regularly, with 32 per cent claiming they make love once a week.
Could the explanation be that men's libidos aren't what they used to be? No, according to the Mail. It was ever thus. It cites a new book called The Sex Starved Wife by American author Michele Weiner Davis. "As a society, we've perpetuated this myth about the ever-turned-on-male," says Weiner Davis. "But all my research suggests that the differences between the genders aren't as great as we've been led to believe." (To read more, click here.)