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‘We hired a photographer to take intimate pictures of us’: seven couples reveal how they keep the sex alive
Life is stressful and finding the time for good sex can be hard, so we asked a variety of people in relationships what they do to maintain their sex lives
“My wife and I have an eight-year-old who never seems to need any sleep, so we don’t have as much ‘alone’ time as we used to. This means that when our daughter is at a club – like gymnastics at 9.30am on a Saturday – we both know that we need to use that time for sex. Because it’s often a bit of a rushed job (we have about 40 minutes before she needs picking up again), there’s not really much time for foreplay, so we rely on Kynect (the new name for KY Jelly) to make things a bit smoother, and it does. It might all seem a bit unromantic, but as with a lot of things in a busy household, you just have to work with what time you have.” Matt, 42 (straight male)
“I’ve been married for five years, and my wife and I have a son and a daughter (I gave birth to both of them, but one of them is my egg with a sperm donor and the other is her egg with the same donor). Our sex life is probably the same as a lot of other married couples with kids – pretty sparse! It doesn’t help that for big chunks of time, her parents come over from New Zealand and stay with us, which means we have to move into our son’s room (our daughter goes into a bunk bed with him) and sleep in twin beds. Passion killer. But we always make sure that the last weekend they are with us, they look after the kids overnight and we book into a nice hotel and make up for it.” Gemma, 40 (gay female)
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