The coronavirus pandemic has changed everything. From our day to day, our work, to the way we interact. With this, the pandemic has also influenced our sexual lives, our habits and how we relate to our partners on a day-to-day basis. Social distancing has created a great dent in our social relationships and that has influenced the way we that we are now facing a relationship as a couple. The Brazilian journal, International Brazilian Journal of Urology, has carried out a study of how the pandemic has affected us when it comes to having sexual relations, and the results obtained are not very positive.More couple problems This study has revealed how this pandemic has affected relationships. The crisis that we have been suffering from for more than a year has not only affected single people emotionally and sexually, who have seen how their relationships have been much more complicated to deal with than before. Couples have also been affected in their intimate life during this period of pandemic. The survey has analyzed the main consequences of this crisis for couples and has determined, for example, that the sexual life of couples has been less frequent and less quality due to home confinement. This confinement has unleashed nerves, tension and periods of stress in couples who in the end have had a less healthy intimate life.Another data that the study throws up is that, in a time with emotions running high and anxiety through the roof. , erectile dysfunctions have multiplied due to the nervousness that the pandemic has caused.In addition, the lack of desire and sexual libido has been a constant during the last year in couples, so sexual life has decreased for the vast majority of them. The study reveals a revealing and curious fact: during confinement, sex with a partner decreased and the consumption of pornography increased. There was no ‘baby boom’ despite the fact that some experts anticipated a kind of ‘baby boom’ nine months after it was decreed confinement, the truth is that this boom in children did not occur at any time. According to the study, the situation of uncertainty, stress, unfavorable forecasts for the future or the fear of bringing a child in the middle of a pandemic, have been some of the reasons why the birth rate has dropped in the last year.
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