One day, when Les Dennis was a 13-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool, he walked in on his mum and dad having sex. He’d come down before bedtime to get a note for school the next day and there they were on the sofa, going at it. For some kids this might just be an embarrassing “get a room” moment but Dennis was traumatised.
“They used to row and not speak for days, which meant I was the go-between,” he says. “Then suddenly it would be OK – because they’d have what we call ‘make-up sex’. But that was news to me.”
Even now, aged 69, he fears that it has made him a bit of a prude. It meant he was “uncomfortable” when his
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