Myth: a shower before bed stops you sleeping

For many people, there’s nothing that beats the feeling of showering before slipping into clean bedsheets – it’s one of life’s greatest pleasures. And research shows that a pre-bedtime shower might help you to drift off – providing you keep the temperature down.

According to the American Journal of Biology, showers should be taken two hours before hitting the hay in order to avoid raising body temperature and disturbing our natural sleep triggers. But if it works for you, go ahead and lather up. No one ever went to bed too clean.

Myth: it’s really easy (and common) to have sex in the shower

We’ve all seen the (literally) steamy scenes in movies where a couple gets it on in the shower, but let’s face it – real life is rarely like that. Few of us have showers with enough space to swing a cat, let alone get busy. And according to experts, it’s probably not the best idea.

“Shagging in the shower could be dangerous, purely from the point of view that it’s so easy to slip and hurt yourself,” says Dr Watson. “But other than that, I really can’t think of anything we shouldn’t be doing in the shower. You can please yourself – no pun intended.”

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