I’m 27 and I’ve been with my boyfriend for two years. Our sex life has started to drop off a bit. To fix this, he has started scheduling sex. He’s put it in our diaries for twice a week. It seems so clinical to me, and frankly it doesn’t work either. We don’t always do it on the appointed days.

From making you happy to improving your health, there’s every good reason to reboot your sex life in middle age, writes Suzi Godson.

My wife and I are always so busy during the week that we’ve decided to save sex for the weekends. But since we started this six months ago, I’ve noticed that we argue quite a lot more and are more snippy with each other.”