Paris remains the City of Love, the French kiss a globally renowned tongue twister and Serge Gainsbourg’s graphically sexual Je t’aime, moi non plus, a shock to the senses.
LET’S UNPACK THAT: It’s official – our liberated Gallic neighbours are losing their infamous libido. Helen Coffey questions whether modern-day life is to blame, or whether the va-va-voom image was ever really more than smoke and mirrors
France is considered a country of love, but according to a new study, people there are having less and less sex and some people prefer to watch Netflix or television or click their way through social networks. A representative survey by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) published on Tuesday showed that French love lives, particularly among young people, have reached a low point since the 1970s. The proportion of adults who said they had not had sex in the past 12 months rose from 9%