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Cybersex, Erotic Tech and Virtual Intimacy Are on the Rise During COVID-19

posted by chromas on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the iTouch dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Medical Xpress:

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)

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:15AM (2 children)

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:15AM (#1022276) Journal

    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:

    This sounds like a sweeping statement - one that comes close to blaming a generation of women for the problem - but Yamada says it's a conclusion he has drawn after extensive surveys.

    "In Japan working life is very, very hard and there is still a lot of sexual discrimination. Working hours are very long and there's lots of stress," he says.

    Also, the burden of childcare is still firmly on the mother. Long hours, high-stress workplaces and long commutes make life difficult for working mothers. The easier option is to quit - but that's not possible unless your partner earns a certain amount of money. — BBC article [bbc.com]

    Close to 70 percent of women ages 15 to 64 now have jobs — a record. But their careers are often held back by a relentless tide of domestic burdens, like filling out the meticulous daily logs required by their children’s day-care centers, preparing the intricate meals often expected of Japanese women, supervising and signing off on homework from school and afterschool tutoring sessions, or hanging rounds of laundry — because few households have electric dryers.

    While some men say they want to pitch in more and the government has urged businesses to reform the crushing work culture, employees are still expected to devote most of their waking hours to the company, making it difficult for many husbands to participate much on the home front. —NYT article [nytimes.com]

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @11:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @11:04AM (#1022355)

    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

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 16 2020, @08:52PM (#1022569) Homepage Journal

    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