Getting pregnant seems like a lottery sometimes where anxious people dying for a child come up with the booby price. For close to six years, Rele and her husband had been desperately seeking for a child. “We tried everything”, they said, “Lawrence, my husband, had the right sperm count but I had a blockage in one of my fallopian tubes and there was no reason why the other one shouldn’t work. In desperation, I relocated abroad and was able to go through two cycles of IVF on the National Health. It wasn’t a pleasant experience, believe me, yet nothing happened.

Most men think they’re great in bed”, observed Jane, a marriage counsellor.

“But much as we love our men, a five minute quickie before lights out really doesn’t get the earth moving! It’s not that they lack enthusiasm. They’re just being typical male – always ready for action. The problem is their technique – most of them don’t have any. Foreplay is clumsy and hurried, and as for the sex, it’s always wham, barn, was that it?!

YOUR feelings are hurt and you want your other half to know it. You stamp round the house, slamming doors, tossing your head and sighing heavily. But he seems oblivious. You move on to the silent treatment and he still carries on as normal. It’s only when you cry with frustration that he actually comes over and puts his arm around you.

Janet and I have being courting for almost nine months now. We dated for about two years before we started making plans for marriage. And in those two years and nine months, we made love like every other couple without protection. We started attending this marriage counseling class at my fiancée’s renowned church and we were told to know our HIV status, Janet did hers before I even thought of mine.

It’s no secret that sex in the office is as commonplace as sex in anywhere convenient-all you need is a little bit of privacy and a lot of ingenuity. But, have you ever thought of avenging a wrong by giving yourself an earth-shattering bunk? And, in the office? When this happened to Gbemi, she swore revenge sex was the furtherest on her mind when she was dumped by her boyfriend of two years. I was doing my youth service in a big office when John dumped me,” she said. “It was a dream office to work in and I wanted to make a good impression as I was hoping to be invited to stay permanently. But concentrating on my job was almost impossible.