“The situation is challenging people’s intimate lives and we need to find some way to cope with that,” explained Lehmiller. “For some people, they’re turning to more adventurous activitiThose living with partners were more likely to try new activities, which according to the paper, “is not entirely surprising because these circumstances likely necessitated more creativity with respect to pursuing sex for leisure.
“About one in five of the participants said that they noticed at least some change in their sexual fantasies since the pandemic began,” he said of those results. “About one in ten said that they fantasized about something they’d never fantasized about before. Also people reported they’re fantasizing more frequently now than they were before the pandemic, which I think makes sense because more broadly looking at our data, people are less sexually active.
Lehmiller said that further study and data collection would need to be performed to determine people’s longer term quarantine-breaking habits, which has been going on for months now to some extent, according to . Lehmiller says he hypothesizes that “the longer this has gone on, the less likely people are to adhere to those social distancing guidelines because human beings have this powerful need to belong, to feel connected to others.”“When you can’t do that, it creates a sense of loneliness that we know is damaging to our physical and psychological health,” he continued. “For a lot of people, they can only distance for so long.
oh nooooo so terrible