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While Black Lives Matter protests are understandably getting most of the media attention recently, it doesn’t mean that the global coronavirus pandemic has stopped spreading or has stopped being a cause for concern. And as the world slowly transitions into the new normal, it is expected that people will be curious about what sex will be like in this new environment.
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine outlines measures that reduce the risks people face should they decide to forego social distancing and choose to meet up with new sexual partners instead.
According to the study, the first thing to do is to limit the number of sexual partners, as it makes it easier to do contact tracing if an infection does happen.
Fewer partners also make it easier to accomplish the second step recommended by the study, which is to dig into your possible partner’s medical history and see if they have previously exhibited any symptoms associated with COVID-19. These symptoms include a loss of smell and taste, fever, coughs, and exhaustion.
If your partner is all clear with regards to COVID-19 symptoms, you’ll have to count out kissing and making out, as droplets from the mouth carry and spread the novel coronavirus. In fact, the study recommends wearing a mask during sex. They also discourage rimming as it has been suspected that fecal-oral transmission possibly spreads COVID-19.
Health officials already recommend hand-washing to stem the spread of COVID-19, but the study now also recommends taking a shower before and after sex, as well as cleaning whatever area you’re going to have sex in with disinfectant.
Of course, all of these precautions are for those who can no longer spend the coming weeks and months practicing abstinence and social distancing, which is still the most effective to avoid getting infected by COVID-19 during sex.
People who still want to practice social distancing but also want to engage in sexual activities with another person can choose to have phone sex or video sex instead. For those who are okay with going at it alone but want a little something to the mix when they’re masturbating, they can always use sex toys, which they can buy in places like the Adam4Adam Store. There’s even an ongoing promo where a $29 purchase gets customers a free bracelet and necklace set, check it out!
umm…NO
The bottom line is… every time, we go food shopping, we are exposed to multiple contacts. I got quite ill, beginning 28 March, 2020, for about three contiguous weeks. I did not suffer the respiratory difficulties or the fevers, but I had the severe body pains, including the various joints, and almost unbearable right-sided, neck pain and upper to mid, right-sided, back pain. I had the dry cough, too. I go shopping on Sundays, to the local supermarket, and it was there, that I believe I became infected with Covid-19? Several of the cashiers became serious ill,… Read more »
Must be a joke
Alright, so masks are now officially PC, but condoms are routinely refused… what hyposcrisy and arrogance!
Covid19 can be deadly. HIV infection is easily managed, and doesn’t result in reduced lifespan or quality of life. And antivirals (if used by one partner as HIV treatment or as HIV prevention) are just as effective and condoms,
Justin:
With-all-due-respect…
HIV+ infectivity does reduce a lifespan and it does reduce the quality of life. HIV+ is chronic and progressive…what is different is the antiviral medications do lengthen a life span and do increase the quality of life.
Ultimately, if one lives long enough, the chronic progression and the medications’ impact the kidneys, liver, pancreas and arteries… .The medications increase VLDL & LDL and the strength and prolong quantity erode the viscera.
That would be a huge turn off. I’d rather not have sex. Ugh!
Think about how sexy guys sound talking with masks on. “Fush me! Fush me! Make me your bisch!”
CDC is not to be trusted. a4a continues to perpetuate the BIG LIE that CV19 is an actual thing. It is not. CV19 is government propaganda to control the unthinking masses. Stop drinking the covid kool-aid and spreading lies.
dude 100,000 elderly people died in 3 months…it’s a fact.
Stop the hate and stop watching Fox News.
Covid-19 is in fact a real thing. I don’t understand how people want to say it is government propaganda when there is scientific evidence that this virus does exist and is killing people. But this ignorant mindset of yours isn’t new. People said the same thing about the Spanish flu until their loves ones died from it. There have even been people from who said this was a fake disease until they got it or their loves ones got it. Suddenly, their eyes are open and realize that this is a real virus that is killing people world wide. Perhaps,… Read more »
The virus is real, but the propoganda comes in with trying to create fear and control people. I had it and I’m fine now. Most people who get it, recover. It has over a 99% recovery rate.
Something definitely wrong here…reality/s is just not getting through to you.
Thank you!!
It’s pure deception and that’s how I know Trump’s hands are all over it. That ball of contradictions, closet racist and homophobic Catholic Jesuit “Dr. Fauci” who killed millions with his other bioweapon, HIV, is right along with him.
I’m sorry but these wealthy Boomers are diabolical and will say and do anything to maintain their power and relevance. They know mortality is upon them and misery loves company.
So why would boomers unleash a virus that kills, not younger people but boomers? And why would they want to shut down the economy in their retirement. The conspiracy isn’t the coronavirus. The conspiracy is that both political parties agreed that poor, working class, and middle class people should scramble for 1/2 trillion dollars, while banks, lobbyists, multinational corporations, airlines, and investors get over 6 trillion dollars (with trillions of dollars being created “out of thin air” by the banks who are giving low interest loans to any publicly traded company–regardless of their credit worthiness–because the Federal Reserve said it… Read more »
Ask Dr. Fauci and Trump..those decrepit trolls should have been the first to go. But that’s wealth for ya. You ignorantly assume that your financial conspiracy theory is unrelated to mine. Go beyond surface thinking.
That’s sarcasm, right?
Yes, thought police…. that’s what it is
i actually know people who have had it. it is most definitely real.
I had it and lots of people I know had it and we all lived. Unless you do not have a very good immune system, the chance of death is very minimal. Unless you are over 75 or in poor health, I wouldn’t fret over it.
LOL. This is the height of insanely ludicrous. Roll through A4A and screen for Barebackers. Yeah, a mask during sex? lol. 8 STIs vs. the flu? Humans, MSM, people haven’t been uniformly safe against the stuff that definitely kills you, they’re not going to N95 for a maybe flu…unless you’re in the high risk 2%. And if you are, you’re already freaky-deaky on the periphery of life.
The Annals of Internal Medicine recommends encrypted online sex. They recommend contraception to avoid unwanted pregnancies and note some people may want to have sex anyway so use masks and wash before and after. They make these recommendations without any facts at all about the very clear and very simple statistics concerning who gets Coronavirus and who perishes from it. There have been many statistics ignored because they don’t provide the ‘hair on fire drama’ our newscasters seem to think we need all day, but as of today the USA has tested over 21 million people and less than… Read more »
The CDC recommends wearing masks in public for the purpose of reducing the spread of Covid-19 droplets from asymptomatic patients to others. Accord to them, masks offer little protection for wearers against contracting the virus. So if two guys, who are not house partners, wear masks during a hookup, the end result will be…what???
Maybe the intelligent action would be … If you’re thinking of having a random hookup, skip it.
Absolutely not. Laughable
As usual…
how is a gay male suppose to suck cock…?
take-in-the-juice…?
eat a fine piece-of-ass…?
engage in Golden Showers…?
wearing a mask?
Is there a secrete way of doing the aforementioned if the Human Mouth is, otherwise…obscured…?
Welll! We in the kink world have been wearing gas masks during sex for years…. Maybe I should just keep the has man on period. It’s obvious that the air we breathe on this planet is no longer safe without some protection… Like sunscreen. So we’re not allowed to breathe,we’re not allowed out of the house,we’re not allowed to play or even walk next to another person. no eating without dunking your food in sanitizer first….Is that what we call living now? WTF
Sean: What a coincidence that you should bring up the wearing of a “Gas Mask”… I was in Israel in 1976 – 1978, on & off, engaged in maneuvers with The Israeli Army as part of NATO cooperation. One night, a group of Israeli Soldiers took this :Gentile” to a “Gas Mask Party” in a disco; It was located, downstairs, in a building. When its door opened, lo and behold, was an Israeli wearing a gas mask! I asked him why? He said…”in case The Palestinians drop Biological or Chemical Warfare upon us. We will be… Read more »
Gas mask would come in handy to save you lungs from tear gas at a BLM protest.
As an Addendum…
what will become of the proverbial 69…?
How can it survive and prosper…wearing a mask?
Will this become the new norm or the new abnormal…?
folks don’t use Condoms….now a face mask…this will never work
agree…
Same as smokers wearing a mask, for me is just non-sense.
Embrace the Fear, Padwan. Just stay in your hole and masturbate… Fuck that. The riots/rallies happened and their assholes are back to pushing fear. So lets lockdown again until people explode again over the next media circus? Fuck the CDC and the WHO. Keep acutely ill patients out of nursing homes and wash one’s freaking hands. Closing all the hospitals and clinics has killed more that this freaking Panic ever will. Let the strong get out there and spread immunities and the weakened stay in and wait till the strain weakens. That’s how we got through the Swine Flu,… Read more »
In Italy, they had so many COVID cases, which overwhelmed the health system. Hospitals had to stop admitting and treating people over 80–for ANY ILLNESS OR CONDITION. We don’t have enough tests and contact tracers, so all we are doing is SLOWING the spread of infections so our hospitals don’t get overcrowded.
My oldest sister who has lupus going on 64yrs old had it back in Jan, she did recover without going being hospitalized. It’s really a very unpredictable virus…
Now, sex without kissing though? Well, there are guys out there whom are like that, it’d be just fine with them, that’s definitely not me, not by a longshot. I’m one of those guys that if we’re really feeling each other, we kiss the fuck out of each other, so this is not a go for me.
Complete nonsense article. The medics still don’t get it that the virus is air-born and masks won’t protect in close range – you will breathe the same air, not to speak about the closeness during sex. If one of the sex partners has it, 99% probability that all participants will get it, with our without masks.
Oh yeah, baby … CUM on my MASK ! ! ! !
Give me their smelly socks and I’ll wear that for a mask. lol
so absolutely no kissing here? how can ya have a sex without the passionate kisses, honey? a sex without a kiss is like a toilet without a flusher .. it just won’t work ..
you better off just masturbating it and jackin off by yo’self .. that is IF you REALLY wanna be 100 percent safe and protect others as well