Do child-free women have BETTER SEX?

Woman investigates whether intimacy is better when couples have no kids 

- KATREEN HARDT, FRANCESCA WOODSTOCK

‘MUMS CAN HAVE GREAT SEX, TOO!’

NO

Hayley Prince, 34, is a mum of seven and she lives with her rugby coach husband Ben, 36, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

When Ben and I met online four years ago, the attraction was instant. It was August 2018, and I was already a mum to four kids, then aged 10, six, four and two. I’d recently come out of a 12-year marriage, so I wasn’t looking for anything serious. But when I met Ben in person, he was funny and handsome, and we ended up in bed together on the first night.

In my teens, I’d been self-conscious about my body, and when I first started having sex, aged 16, I felt awkward and embarrassed. But after having my first baby, aged 20, I respected my body more. Having a baby was empowering, and despite pregnancy leaving me with a few stretch marks, I cared less about little hang-ups than I had in the past.

I grew more confident in my own skin and when Ben and I first had sex, he made me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world.

Never mind the bump

From then on, things moved quickly. Two months later, Ben moved in with me and in December 2018, just four months after meeting, I found I was pregnant.

It wasn’t planned and I had been tracking my cycle to avoid ovulation, but we’d been having sex so frequently that it had happened anyway. We were both committed to each other and as my bump grew, it didn’t get in the way of us being intimate, so our sex life continued.