Why British women go off sex (unlike the French and Germans)
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
(Well, they obviously haven’t met the crew at Neebone … ahem …)
Middle-aged women in Britain are more likely to have a low sex drive than women in other European countries, a study shows. One in three British women in their late 40s and early 50s doesn’t think an active sex life is important.
Forty-seven per cent of British women reported a tail-off in their sex drive, compared to 21 per cent in Switzerland and 32 per cent in Italy.
The British-based French writer Agnès Poirier, 32, said: “Having a healthy sex life is part of our culture. You want to look good so you dress well; you want to be attractive and be looked at and so the attraction, femininity and sexual chemistry come out.
“Love and sex are the same thing and it’s a serious thing; in Britain, sex is something that is laughed about and there is clumsiness about love and sex. Take the page three girl in the tabloids, presented as you would meat at the butcher’s.” Claudette Lemere, 48, a mother of two from Paris, agreed. “For me and my friends, we feel, ‘What has changed?’ OK, so we may have put on a few pounds and got some wrinkles here and there, but in our minds we are still 17.
Full story @ The Independent Online