A year without sex: journalists find out how the pandemic changed the sex life of people

March will mark a year since the world admitted it was in the maelstrom of the coronavirus pandemic, an extremely dangerous virus. The steps taken by countries to prevent its spread have led to significant changes in the lives of people around the planet: we work differently, communicate, buy, play and relax.

The invisible virus has dealt a blow to people's personal lives. The BBC Ukraine writes with reference to the British news_copypaper The Independent about how the sex life has changed over the past year and what consequences it has led to.

The British say that the first months of the lockdown, announced by the government in the spring, turned out to be perhaps the most difficult for them, because amid the hope that everything would soon be over, restrictions on contacts between citizens only intensified.

Unmarried 23-year-old student Grace told the news_copypaper that since then, which is more than 10 months, she has never had sex "live". At first, sexting and phone sex helped.

Periods of hope gave way to depression, which was only exacerbated by the need to live under the same roof with a mother who needed medical attention.

A similar story was told to the news_copypaper by 28-year-old Josh. For him, the lack of sex was a real "blow".

"I drank a lot. It turned out that I was drinking wine in bottles … I just didn't know where to direct my energy."

The media reported that it was only in September 2020 that the British government eased the restrictions somewhat by allowing communication and sexual intercourse for persons in "stable relationships." And the nongovernmental organization Terrence Higgins Trust, which promotes healthy and protected sex, urged not to remove the mask even during intercourse, which caused a lot of criticism in her address.

However, the rules introduced recently prohibit even this. So thousands of Britons continue to "survive the sexual drought."