Host: How important sex in a relationship? Adrian Ashman: How important is sex in a relationship? Well, it's very important and it's very important particularly at the beginning of a relationship and it's important also to think about sex in terms of sex procreation and sex for the pleasure of that experience. Now, probably, what's important as well to realize is that the importance of sex changes as the relationship matures. At the beginning of a relationship, now, the physical attraction is really strong, as people get together and spend more time with each other and inevitably have sex, the quality of sex changes and the frequency of sex changes. Now, in my practice I have had people who have come in after 30, 40, sometimes, 50 years of their relationship, in a relationship and they will say, The last time I had sex was 23 years ago. I said, Woo! Okay. Is this something you want? I have had other people who have come in and said, We have sex everyday. I go, Woo! Lucky people. But, so it varies from couple to couple and it varies from relationship to relationship. Now, so it doesn t matter whether it's a same sex relationship or an opposite sex relationship. Sex plays a part in the dynamics of that relationship right from the beginning.