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Settling down on the sofa in front of the TV after tucking their daughters up in bed, Vanessa Powell�s body tensed as her husband reached towards her and started to stroke her thigh. �Not tonight darling,� she told Stacey, her husband of 12 years. �It�s only been a few days since the last time.� By Stacey�s reckoning, it was actually more like a fortnight since he�d made love to his wife and he joked, not for the first time, that he would have to start marking their intimate encounters on a calendar. Then Vanessa would see just how infrequently they occurred.