My experiment didn’t start well. ‘What’s this?’ my husband guf awed, as he snatched the packet from my hand. ‘It’s, um, they’re, um, well, you see… sex cards.’ Of course, the children came running in, demanding to know what was so funny.
I’d bought the cards, which contain prompts to help start conversations around sex, in an attempt to rekindle our waning physical intimacy. But, as my eightyear-old read the word ‘erotic’ before having the card snatched from her hand, the whole family dissolved into hysterics.