How many times a week ** should ** couples have sex?

Let’s start here: “The Three Things You Can’t Talk About” in most first-world, middle-class-ish existences are sex (which creates you), money (which drives a lot of people), and failure (which happens to everyone almost hourly, but no one seems to ever want to really talk about).

This post is about №1: sex.

If you Google virtually any variation of “how many times a week should couples have sex” (change the wording around if you want), there’s about 20.3 million results each time — and all are articles trying to scientifically prove that some number is better/worse than some other number.

Here’s the actual truth: it’s completely dependent on situation, which involves:

• Age
• Number of kids
• Job responsibilities
• General libido of both people
• Health/wellness
• Importance of sex to the people involved
• General well-being of the relationship

In the interest of talking about sex and failure at the same time (but not money, baby!), I’ve been married two years or so … I’ve hit a few 0x weeks (haven’t we all?) and I’ve probably hit a few double-digitX weeks. Life. It happens.