article_snippet.sent: Smartphone use may be to blame for a drop in the number of times couples are having sex each month, a leading expert has suggested.
article_snippet.sent: Research has revealed that the frequency with which Britons are having sex has been in decline since the emergence of the internet.
article_snippet.sent: It comes after Professor David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at Cambridge University, revealed in a new book how a typical heterosexual couple was now having sex three times a month.
article_snippet.sent: Research has revealed that the frequency with which Britons are having sex has been in decline since the emergence of the internet (file picture)
article_snippet.sent: This was compared to four times a month in 2000 and five times a month in 1990, according to research published in Prof Spiegelhalter's book Sex By Numbers.
article_snippet.sent: In the Daily Telegraph book, Prof Spiegelhalter pointed to a number of possible factors for the decline in sexual activity with one possible explanation being that more people are living on more people own.
article_snippet.sent: The statistician quotes Catherine Mercer, a researcher on the British National Survey, as saying: ‘With an increasing number of competing demands on our time, sex just falls down our list of priorities.
highlights_snippet.sent: Typical heterosexual couples in Britain are having sex three times a month .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The figure in 2000 was four times a month and five times a month in 1990 .
  