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More sex please, we're British – why a 2021 post-lockdown love fest is inevitable

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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How's your sex life? What the last year did to our relationships

Lockdown has had varying effects on libido
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So how was it for you, during this global pandemic? Last spring was ripe with predictions of a baby boom, recalls psychosexual therapist Amanda Barge – talk of “it’ll be like the 1970s, when we had power cuts: people just went to bed and had sex.” She says: “I don’t think it’s necessarily panned out that way.”
Turns out there is nothing arousing about a government-imposed lockdown. “We’ve had to do what we’re told,” says Barge. “It’s a bit like your parents saying, ‘You’re not going out tonight.’ It’s not hugely sexy. People got into baking, cooking, growing vegetables – again, not hugely sexy; more comforting and homely. So it’s been hard for couples to keep the erotic.” ....

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