Bigger is always better - and 10 other sex myths busted

Think only men suffer performance anxiety, your libido is set in stone or porn destroys intimacy? Experts debunk the most common misconceptions about your sex life

Asked to define sex, most people will say it means penetration and anything else is just “foreplay”, explains Kate Moyle, a psychosexual and relationship therapist, and author of The Science of Sex. “This pedestals intercourse as ‘real sex’ and other sexual acts as something done before penetration rather than as deserving credit in their own right,” she says.