As much as we might not want to admit it, there’s no denying your sex life changes as you get older. Luckily, this isn’t always a bad thing. With age comes wisdom — including between the sheets. Our intuition and emotional connection to sex grows exponentially. We start to understand what it is we like in the bedroom as we get older, and we ask for that from the partners we choose to bring in. When in a long-term relationship, the comfort and familiarity that comes with this

The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, is best known for his neuro-theories around sexuality and the unconscious mind (he coined the term ‘ego’!). Way back in the early 1900s, Freud identified a psychological dichotomy in his male patients known as the ‘Madonna-Whore complex’. Men (back then, but relevant to all genders now) with this complex saw women as either saints or prostitutes, loving the first and desiring the second — though never intertwining both. As Freud s