Sexpert reveals how to beat Blue Monday in the bedroom – from the ‘eagle’ position to chocolatey fun

THE most depressing day of the year has arrived – Blue Monday. 

Back in 2005, Dr. Cliff Arnall, a British psychologist, calculated that the third Monday in January is the saddest due to a combination of different things.

These include cold weather, the post-Christmas comedown, growing guilt over failed New Year’s resolutions, and piling debt. 

But don’t let the blues beat you down, or get in the way of your love life for that matter. 

Sex and relationship expert Kate Taylor has just the tips that’ll guarantee you get over the hump. 

Here, she reveals to YASMIN HARISHA eight of her OH-mazing tricks so that everyone can end today on a high. 

Eagle

This easy twist on Missionary is sure to boost your mood as it’s still comfy and accessible, but deeply satisfying. 

How to do The Eagle: Start in the traditional missionary pose, but the partner underneath raises their legs to hip height, then spreads them out wide. (Like eagle wings.) 

Adjust the height and spread until you find an angle that creates the most friction. 

Game on

Bringing fun and games into the bedroom raises your dopamine (the feel-good brain chemical) to cheer you up and turn you on. 

Buy a sex game like my “A Hot Minute” card game, £14.99, Amazon, or just give leftover Christmas boardgames a racy revamp by removing an item of clothing every time it’s your turn. 

TV tricks

Feel like watching TV all day? Do it, but only binge sexy boxsets that’ll lift your mood and your libido. 

Try modern sexy classics like Bridgerton or Normal People, or throwback favourites like Basic Instinct.

For extra heat, watch together in bed, or snuggling naked under a heated blanket on the sofa. 

Food fight 

If your serotonin is low, you’ll crave comfort food. But heavy meals sap your sex drive and leave you bloated and sleepy. 

Snack on light bites with aphrodisiac qualities like strawberries, avocado, salmon and seafood. 

Or cover your lover in melted dark chocolate and slowly lick it off. 

Out and about 

Walking for 15 minutes is enough to improve your mood for a full day. Do it tonight.

Hold hands as you stroll around the block, snogging at every streetlight, discussing in filthy detail what you’ll do when you get back home. Can’t wait? 

Drag your partner into the bushes and have frantic fun al fresco.  

Final fantasy 

Act out each other’s flirtiest fantasies to escape a sex rut. Try these ideas. 

Oooh-ber Driver: your partner drives you around while you flirt, undress and ultimately seduce them from the back seat. 

Glowing Appraisal: Give your partner a thorough Q1 Sexual Performance Review. 

OnlyFun: Be your partner’s sexy cam girl/guy on a video call from the bedroom, until they rush upstairs to join the action. 

Water play

Wallowing in a bubble bath is extra blissful if you indulge yourself with a waterproof toy like the innocent-looking Rub My Duckie vibrator, Amazon, £19.96

Or ask your partner to join you for a shower, where getting clean quickly turns into getting dirty. 

Cosy Up

If all you feel like doing is curling up in bed, take Spooning to the next level. 

Adopt the Spoons position but then lift your leg up and over your partner behind you. 

This gives you a different sensation downstairs, but also leaves room to add manual stimulation too. 

Use warming oils like Ann Summers Heatwave lube, £6, Ann Summers, to heat things up.