New book reveals why women go off sex

By Ellie Omahoney  on Monday 3 August 2009

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An international best-selling book containing intimate personal diaries from 97 women reveals new reasons why women ‘go off sex’ once they’re in long-term relationships.

In The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex And Other Bedroom Battles, which has just been released in the UK, sex therapist Bettina Arndt reveals that far from having passionate sex every night, many couples are trapped in a cycle of boredom, tiredness and low libido. And often this comes from a communication problem at the heart of a relationship.

'From the time I started working as a sex therapist back in the early 1970s, people have been talking to me about their sex lives,' Arndt said. 'What I hear about most is the business of negotiating the sex supply. How do couples deal with the strain of the man wishing and hoping while all she longs for is the bliss of uninterrupted sleep?'

Commenting on the book in The Daily Mail, sexpert Flic Everett says: 'The Sex Diaries reveals a much more tender, intimate truth about men in relationships. Men who aren't, in fact, surfing internet porn every night, or resentfully putting up with the middle-aged wife while they fantasise about the hot 21-year-old next door.'

'It comes as a poignant surprise, in fact, to discover that the majority are still deeply in love with their wives; they just want the chance to be physically closer to her, and to feel loved and accepted in return, despite their balding heads or round tummies.'

Monday 3 August 2009

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