Shirley gave up sex along with chocolate, meat, caffeine, alcohol when she lost her fortune and had to start again in 2005.

My mother was a man magnet, she had recognisable sex appeal but as one of nine who'd escaped a Glaswegian tennament was not a romantic in the Disney princess sort of way. She introduced me to Bette Davis from an early age we'd watch afternoon classics like All About Eve and Another Man's Poison so I'd guess you'd say I had a greater understanding of villians and vixens than your average 5 year old.

For those not in a committed monogamous relationship, if you can get over the sheer dread of not having sex in favour of being happy, the benefits of celibacy far outweigh any momentary pleasure from a random sex act.

I am horrified to see the facts around porn addiction and young men in today's web and technology culture, where few communicate face to face, many cannot write correctly or spell because of texting and most get their unlimited sexual fantasies on-line. Internet porn is where our young men are learning to dominate sexually and our young women are being subjected to humiliation as a result. If you can imagine when a young male, already dealing with testosterone issues, is learning life...

Contemplating a roll in the hay with someone you don't know well or have just met, on the first date or even on the first night, think again. A physical connection or intimacy with a stranger can leave you with more mental problems and feelings of low self esteem than you may have bargained for.

The idea of any sexual self control is completely foreign to our increasingly sexualised society, as is the sanctity of sex itself. In a time where prostitution, pornography and promiscuity are rife, people have simply forgotten what is special about the intimacy of sex. A period of celibacy is not just for nuns but for anyone with some self respect. When we separate sex from love, we travel down the road to selfish sexual hedonism, missing the gift to explore intimacy with one...

Mastering talk therapy (talking to yourself) allows you to see things as they really are and not how you always believed them to be. When we truly begin to think outside the box, we stop living vicariously through the lives of our favorite TV soaps and end up watching real life stories that can change the way we think about things. When we think for ourselves, we get to know ourselves but when we change who we are to please others, we become strangers to...

Suggest someone give up sex and you'd think you'd asked them to throw themselves off a building but could giving up the fantasy of a fairytale and respecting yourself and your body instead be the key to good mental health?