On overage, men and women have sex five times a month, down from six times a month ten years ago, with rising numbers saying that they lack any interest in sex.
The principal investigator, Dame Anne Johnson, of University College London, said: we tend to think these days we live in an increasingly sexually liberal society, but the truth is far more complex.
The context in which we have sex, and the variability of sexual lifestyles we have continues to change, and whilst we think of sex as being more widely available, with more explicit TV programmes and films and extended social networks, in fact as a nation, we are having no more sex than we did a decade ago. The study also found we have become much less forgiving of those who have extra-marital affairs, with more than 50% per cent of all men and women aged 16-44 believing , non-exclusivity in marriage is always wrong.
