Modern couples who want to start a family turn to IVF … because they are too busy for sex

Modern couples who want a baby are turning to IVF – not because they are infertile, but because, according to experts, they are too busy for sex.

Couples are advised to try to have sex every three days to increase their chances of getting pregnant.

But the pressure of ‘always available’, checking emails outside of working hours and completing to-do lists has left many people with impaired libido and little time for passion.

Modern couples who want a child turn to IVF – not because they are infertile, but because, according to experts, they are too busy to have sex.

Experts fear that they often spend their free time watching Netflix.

The number of British couples resorting to infertility treatment that they don’t really need just because they don’t have sex often enough to conceive naturally is estimated to reach hundreds.

Charles Kingsland, chief physician of the Care Fertility Clinical Group – said in an interview with the Daily Mail after speaking about IVF at the Fertility Show, a conference in London over the weekend: “People have half as much sex as 30 years ago.

“We have this culture where we talk about sex on television and in magazines all the time, but we don’t.

“People don’t take their time because they are too busy and too tired – they have a bad work-life balance and sex starts to look like another task. There is no doubt that some people opt for IVF simply because sex is not something they have time for. ‘

Couples are advised to try to have sex every three days to increase their chances of getting pregnant

Another speaker at the conference, Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, added: “People have sex less than once a week, only every few weeks or not at all because modern life has taken the joy out. of this and too many other things like email and work are competing for our attention.

“The couples I see now have very different expectations about what a healthy sex life is.

“I’ve been worried for a long time that they’re too busy to have sex that is compatible with the birth of a child, so hundreds are turning to infertility treatment.”

The latest national survey on sex and lifestyle was conducted a decade ago.

He showed that the proportion of women who reported not having sex in the last month was 29 percent – up from 23 percent in 2001.

A recent YouGov study with results published in 2020 found that people in their late twenties are more likely than any other age group to have regular sex.

But that changes as people get a few years older, with the 35-39 age group least likely to have sex last week.

Experts are concerned that Netflix may be ruining our love lives, as a 2017 Lancaster University study found that the “busy hour” is between 10pm and 11pm, when people are supposed to take tablets to bed to stream TV broadcasts.

Digital tickets are still available to watch online conversations from the Fertility Show.