“You don’t realise it’s happening at first, it just... dwindles. A couple of months passed, then I looked around and thought... Oh.” Alex, 32, a marketing director from Manchester, had been with his girlfriend for six years. They lived together and were happy, “very happy” in fact, with their sex life. Until suddenly... they weren’t. One sexless week turned into a fortnight, a month, then more...

Alex is not alone. According to new data, 98 per cent of us assume others are doing it at least once a month. In fact, one in five UK adults has not had sex in the past four weeks. Indeed, according to the nationwide survey commissioned by Hims and Hers, 30 per cent are having less sex as a direct result of the cost of living crisis.

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