Sex File: I just want to have normal sex again

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Q. While we were stuck at home my wife and I started being more experimental. We even tried role playing to entertain ourselves. It's been fun, but it's intense and can leave me exhausted. Now I just want to have nice, regular, mainly missionary sex again, but I'm worried my partner will find that dull.

A. I feel you. Swinging from the chandeliers dressed as a fireman is all very well, but reaching across the bed and not even bothering to take your T-shirt off is also nice, and it's a lot less energy intensive. Domestic sex isn't meant to be emotionally exhausting. Mostly, it is a thin slice of erotic intensity sandwiched between large slabs of daily tedium, and for most of us that is enough.