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10th - 21st September 2007 |
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Fifty years after the Wolfenden Report, Radio 4 presented a series of programmes exploring sexuality in Modern Britain. |
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When a wife discovers her husband is gay, they are typically left feeling betrayed, confused and isolated. Often there follow revelations of further lies and deceits - which may have spanned years of marriage life.
While husbands will probably start a new chapter in their lives as openly gay men, their wives are frequently left alone, caring for the children of a marriage that for some appears to have been a sham.
Sheila McClennon talks to the married men who've struggled to come to terms with their sexuality – and the wives left to pick up the pieces.
11.00am, Monday 17th September 2007 |
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Although attitudes towards sexual behaviour have become much more liberal, it seems that many of us are still anxious about our sex lives. The nation’s obsession with sex is putting extra pressure on us to perform well in the bedroom, and to question whether we measure up. 
