Male in favour of sitting in bed for relaxation (7)
I believe the answer is:
comfort
'relaxation' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'male in favour of sitting in bed' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'in favour of' becomes 'for' (I've seen this before).
'sitting in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bed' becomes 'cot' (cot is a kind of bed).
'm'+'for'='mfor'
'mfor' placed inside 'cot' is 'COMFORT'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for comfort that I've seen before include "Console; ease" , "Console, offer solace" , "Satisfaction" , "Consolation" , "Physical ease; consoler" .)