'I prefer cleaning to sex', says Doncaster mum who cleans for two hours every day

Tracy Fairbairn, a 53-year-old sports therapist, says that hoovering gives her a buzz – and that she prefers dusting to action in the bedroom.

In an interview with The Sun, Tracy said: “Cleaning is the new sex!”

Singer Jessie J recently revealed how tidying was her ‘love language’ – and Tracy, who has a son Oliver, seven, with husband Simon, 53, has followed in the star’s footsteps.

She told the newspaper: "I clean for an hour in the morning and an hour at night.

“On Sundays, I do a deep clean and it lasts seven hours.

“At the end of that I have an endorphin high similar to the afterglow of an orgasm.

“We used to have sex four times a week but we only do it twice now, since I started obsessively cleaning after having our son in 2012. Cleaning is my new sex.

“My husband likes how the house looks but I think he worries about my relationship with the vacuum.

“Hoovering gives me a real buzz. I love creating neat lines in the shag pile free of mess, and I love the euphoria I get when I see those neatly vacuumed carpets.

“I have made my own essential oil carpet freshener which I spritz while I vacuum.

“And I often think: ‘Who needs sex, which just messes up the bedroom?’.

“I change the bed sheets every second day. I need a super-clean bedroom for love making. Cleaning has refocused me as a mother and a wife because I want a beautiful, clean home.

”It’s also given me a sexier self-image, with better arm muscles and a trimmer waistline. I’m more confident than ever.”

Simon said: “Sometimes I feel Tracy puts cleaning ahead of me. I get pushed out the door with our son on a Sunday while she cleans. Cleaning is definitely the third wheel in our relationship.

“The upside is when she is done cleaning I know I can make a move. It’s become my signal.”