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When it comes to sex and relationships, the pandemic is creating a situation where people are either living in close proximity (possibly with partners, children or other family members) or are limited in their opportunities to find partners for prolonged periods of time. These circumstances can directly impact our intimacy.
A recent online survey found that a majority of participants in a sample of 1,559 adults reported a decline in the quality of their sex lives (43.5 percent) during the COVID-19 pandemic, while only a minority reported improvements (13.6 percent). Interestingly, however, despite people reporting a decrease in the frequency of sexual behaviours compared to the past year, one in five individuals (20.3 percent) added at least one new activity to their sex life, such as a new sexual position, incorporating pornography or engaging in cybersex. Compared to people who made no change, those who spiced things up were more likely to report improvements in their sex life since the beginning of the pandemic.
"As the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says: 'You are your safest sex partner.'"
Journal Reference:
Less Sex, but More Sexual Diversity: Changes in Sexual Behavior during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, Leisure Sciences (DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2020.1774016)
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:34PM (14 children)
And the fact that young women often don't want to retreat into the home and be separated from the rest of society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:46PM (7 children)
Combine covid with SJWs and nobody screws anymore. We can't be white, black, male, female, Italian, Jewish, christian, shituslim, or anything else without offending someone.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:05PM (4 children)
Dear Mr. Anonymous Coward,
Just look at your gender and your skin color!
Not very diverse is it?
Please change them both to something more diverse, and then come back and re-apply.
Enclosed is a magic marker you can use to change the latter.
Thank you
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:33PM (1 child)
I tried the white magic marker but I looked like MJ.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:44PM
Enclosed is a pair of dull scissors to help correct the other issue.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:12AM
You have convinced me!
Henceforth I now self-identify as a wheelchairbound black muslim transgender lesbian quadriplegic communist.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday July 17 2020, @02:47AM
Nor are the Japanese very diverse. They maintain their nondiversity by very restrictive immigration policies. And it has brought them to a demographic crisis.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 16 2020, @12:31AM (1 child)
Why do you care? You're never going to have sex if this is how you operate, anyway.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @10:59AM
Azuma back with the victorian comeback. Seriously in this day and age, sex is the cheapest thrill anyone can get.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @09:39PM (4 children)
Surveys of young women in Japan have repeatedly shown that vast majorities of them insist that any man they marry be a high earner. There aren't enough high earners to go around.
As well, young men have watched their fathers work themselves to the bone, to come home and hand over all the money to their mother, who then graciously permits her husband a small allowance. Tales are legion of women who, upon their husbands finally getting to retire, bitterly resent that he's around "her" house all the time. Married women don't "retreat into the home", they lord over it like masters whipping their slaves. Young men are declining to be part of such a system.
This is a large factor as to why so many younger men in Japan are not only not interested in marriage, but not even interested in dating. It's not worth it! Yet everyone blames the men, while women and their expectations are never considered to be even a part of the problem.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:15AM (2 children)
The surveys show that around half of the women wish to marry a high wage earner because even though the majority of women hold jobs, in Japan they're also expected to handle most (if not all) of the childcare & domestic work:
That's assuming that most Japanese women even find the idea of being a full-time SAHM/housewife appealing in the first place; the interviews in that article suggest that a lot of them don't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @11:04AM
Nobody does. Only a handful of people all over the world want to die working. Funny how an issue of men becomes women not being allowed and then women not wanting to.
There is no getting around to the fact that women WANT high earning men so they can enjoy life on his dime. And equally, men are willing to kill themselves in the rat race for a chance at pussy. Not many men will win the race, and so population is bound to decline.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 16 2020, @08:52PM
Not "being a full-time SAHM/housewife" is feasible now if she doesn't get married and doesn't have children. Hence the astonishingly low birth rate, even well below what China tried to accomplish with its one child per family rule.
The social climate will have to change if they want to maintain a population without *massive* immigration.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday July 16 2020, @05:12PM
It's true in a way, but has slightly different connotation and applies to the whole Asia; not Muslim part perhaps.
A women up there is supposed to marry somebody who makes more money than her. Not necessarily a lot, but more. At the same time women's education level became high.
What's the issue? Getting education takes time. By the time an educated women is ready to marry she is rather, how should I put it, mature. Men who make more than her prefer young and fresh and can afford and get them. Hence there is an oversupply of highly educated women in their 30s, which makes finding sex for similar men a very easy task. This in turn makes the situation for women even more desperate.
There are funny consequences. All my colleagues who were sent for a long business trips to Japan came back married. Americans are OK with relatively old professionals for wives while women do want to marry.
BTW, this is similar to black women issue in the USA. It's just their men are in prisons.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @02:17AM
In the USofA, they tend to retreat into the home to take hostages & rob the place.