More than half of women feel so overweight that they avoid having sex with their partners, a survey shows.
Some 52 per cent said their lack of confidence in the shape of their bodies made them reluctant to be intimate.
Even more blamed tiredness for killing off the prospect of a night of passion.
Experts said the poll showed many women were suffering from a combination of unrealistic expectations about their appearance and increasingly busy lives, and warned relationships were inevitably suffering as a result.
Sex In The Nation, a survey of 4,000 people, found that 29 per cent of women cited feeling that they looked fat as a reason for avoiding sex, with a further 23 per cent blaming embarrassment about their ‘wobbly bits’.
The figures for male respondents were eight per cent and 11 per cent respectively.
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