Being a mum kills passion

HAVING children ruins your sex drive – but only if you are a woman.

The survey found women with one or more children were 50 per cent more likely to be unhappy with their sex lives than those who had none. But men who had children were no less happy with their love lives.

Survey participants were asked whether they had lacked interest in sex for the past three months or more. Many parents have warned that having children ruined their sex lives as they are inclined to interrupt at the crucial moment.

Women sometimes find sex painful after childbirth or find that they are too exhausted for passion having had to wake up with the baby in the night.

Relationship experts say couples should make time for each other and try to be intimate, even if they do not feel like sex straight away.