After a long lockdown, much of the nation have got the horn
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Lockdown in London, 2020. Queuing in a Costa for a takeaway coffee, I find myself staring at a random man’s hairy forearms. I imagine them coiling round my waist, pulling me close. I am a 52-year-old, newly divorced consumer journalist – the closest I got to arousal pre-lockdown was looking at a perfectly loaded dishwasher – but I have a serious (and unexpected) case of pandemic lust.
The last year and a half has been a strange one for our sex lives, whether you’ve been in a relationship or not. Singletons like me, with no fellow inmate to join them in lockdown, found themselves yearning for any form of human touch, from anyone at all, even the hairdresser. Even when restrictions started to ease, we had to make do with chilly, distanced dates and furtive texts.
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Vaccinations are here, restrictions have eased, and people are officially in the streets again. After a year of limited human interaction, many are ready to mingle, date and explore intimate relationships. For single people, quarantine and safety guidelines totally changed the rules for how to go about it all. COVID restrictions increased online dating activity as well as alternative methods for getting to know someone new. But now that “outside” is open again, experts predict sex is to make a major comeback. Summer 2021 has already been coined, “Hot Vax Summer,” “The Whoring ’20s,” and “Shot Girl Summer.”
Historically, after deadly pandemics and plagues, huge sexual revolutions have followed. For example, back in the 14th Century, Eurasia and Northern Africa were struck with the Black Death, a bubonic plague that claimed between 75–200 million lives. As a result of the that plague, Europe experienced an increase in sanctioned prostitution and hedonism. If histo