The Best Thing For Your Sex Life? A Cup Of Tea

Drink up.

But There's No Tea-Bagging Here

By Emma Jones

Whether it's Earl Grey, English Breakfast, or Red Rose, there's nothing better than a nice cup of tea. But did you know that a cup of China's finest can also do wonders for your sex life?

Forget the Victoria's Secret lingerie, rabbit toys, and those fluffy handcuffs, if you're looking for more oomph in your sex life drink tea.  According to leading marital therapist Andrew G Marshall, "if you stop in the middle of love-making to have tea and talk to each other, it shows how desire comes and goes -- that sex isn't just a race to the end."

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Stoppin midway through  "Allows you time to be intimate with each other. Sex which used to last 15 minutes suddenly lasts an-hour-and-a-half. Sex doesn't have to involve going out of your comfort zone -- although challenging yourself is good."

Marshall says he's on a mission to reclaim monogamous sex for couples who no longer know how to feel sexy with the partner, especially after the unsexy business of housework. As a result, Marshall encourages couples to reinvent their sex lives every few years.

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Drinking a cup of tea with your partner is one such reinvention and, we guess, acts as a bit of a half-time refresher for your sex session. Just wondering, does it have to be tea? Couldn't cocoa or, say,  a nice glass of wine do the job just as well?