The notion was startling. When sex and fertility specialists were asked why more couples were turning to IVF in order to conceive, they said it was because we are not having enough sex to do it naturally.
At a conference earlier this year, eminent sex experts described a nation having perhaps as little as half as much sex as we had ’30 years ago’.
Our busy, distracted lives, they said, mean we see sex as a chore, not a pleasure.