Since the beginning of lockdown orders and social distancing mandates, many media outlets have come to the same conclusion: that isolating people are unfathomably horny. But I’m skeptical of this narrative—surely many people feel debilitated by the stress and uncertainty of a global health crisis and don’t really feel ready to pounce on their partner (or as gender essentialist Gwyneth Paltrow said, “the female body when put under stress goes into survival mode,” meaning women don’t want to have sex.) For singles, I could see some merit to wanting to do it since they cannot currently do it, and the heart wants what it can’t have. Or maybe they, too, are giving into the weight of the world instead of their hormones. Universally-felt depression will do that to you. At any rate, the effects of not boning are being felt economically: According to The Guardian, condom sales are way down during the covid-19 pandemic.
narrative—surely many people feel debilitated by the stress and uncertainty of a global health crisis and don’t really feel ready to pounce on their partner For singles, I could see some merit to wanting to do, and the
heart wants what it can’t have. Or maybe they, too, are giving into the weight of the world instead of their hormonesfelt depression will do that to you. At any rate, the effects of not boning are being felt economically:
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