Psychologies Magazine

24 March 2015

I have a confession to make: I don’t want to wear handcu s or be tied up in bed. I have no inclination to make my way to any sort of ‘red room’. Although, I quite like to be read to in bed. Oh, and I like kissing a lot. But in the aftermath of the Fifty Shades phenomenon, I feel as if the whole world and her mate is indulging in far more adventurous bedroom practices than reading and kissing. Is there something wrong with me? No, says Dr Petra Boynton, social psychologist and expert at The Wellcome Trust’s Sexology exhibition in London, who we interview on page 76. But I’m not alone with my doubts, she says. The question she answers most often, she tells us, is very simple: ‘Am I normal?’