Timothy Oblad Texas A&M University Kingsville

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We chose three country-level measures that could both immediately and more proximally impact access to sex. Data for the current study were drawn from a larger project, “International Sexual Health And REproductive Health during COVID-19” (I-SHARE-1)—a cross-sectional, online, 30-country study conducted between August 2020 and January 2021. The purpose of the study was to assess adult sexual and reproductive health before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in respective countries. Research teams were initially identified through a UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) crowdsourcing open call and additionally recruited affiliates of the Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ANSER).

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The Oxford Stringency Index has tracked 23 different indicators of country policy response (e.g., school closures, travel restrictions, vaccination policy, etc.) from 180 countries since January 1, 2020. These policies are summated on a scale to reflect extent of governmental action, with higher scores indicating greater restriction (Hale et al., 2021). For the current paper, we used the running mean of each country’s score at the time data collection halted in each country. The sexts followed a one-night stand sometime in either 2015 or 2016, according to those familiar with the providence of the photos, although the exact nature of the relationship is up for debate. “One person expected less and the other expected more,” said a source with knowledge of the encounter.

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People who reported a higher number of changes in sexual life during the pandemic seemed to experience more anxiety, depression, and stress (Panzeri et al., 2020). COVID-related stressors may predict a decrease in relational satisfaction and an increase in maladaptive relationship behaviors, such as conflict (Balzarini et al., 2020; Luetke et al., 2020). For the present narrative review, we collected 105 scientific articles found using PubMed and PsicInfo.

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When care access is challenging, medical practices can collaborate to develop online resources that provide both the most up-to-date and accurate information about the pandemic, as well as provide local resources that patients and clients can use. As these measures involved several social restrictions, we hypothesized that sexual behaviors would change as a result of these lockdown measures. With respect to in-person partnered sexual activities, we expected to find solo activities and online use for sexual purposes to increase due to the restrictions put in place. Considering the media attention and potential public health implications, it is surprising that research on this topic has been slow to develop. In one of the few peer-reviewed studies to consider teen sexting, Dowdell and colleagues18 reported that 15% of their high-school sample had been sent a sext, and a third reported knowing someone who had been involved in sexting. For changes in sexual behaviors, an increase in the use of sex toys and masturbating was found during the pandemic, especially by people who reported less or no sex during the lockdown compared with those who reported more sex (Coombe et al., 2021).

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• Moreover, women working as healthcare workers, living with their partner, and having low sexual satisfaction experienced low levels of desire (De Rose et al., 2021).

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• The quarantine’s negative impact on mental health (Cao et al., 2020; Cellini et al., 2020; Gawai et al., 2020; Li S. et al., 2020; Pera, 2020; Salari et al., 2020) may have been more striking in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
• The most common increased behavior among participants was hugging, kissing, holding hands, or cuddling with a main partner (21.5%), and the least common behaviors to increase were sex with a casual partner (5.8%) and performing or watching sexual acts over the internet (5.5%).
• We observed that sexual minority individuals reported more frequent solo masturbation, sex with a casual partner, sexually explicit media, and cybersex as compared to heterosexual participants.
• Finally, it was found that COVID-related stress, not turning to religion, and adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies were predictors of emotional sexting.

Moreover, during the social-distancing period, respondents who had casual sex were more likely to use condoms or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) than before the pandemic (Shilo and Mor, 2020a). On March 11, 2020, the WHO Director-General declared COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 19) a global pandemic (World Health Organization, 2020). All over the world, the primary aim was reducing the spread of the virus by adopting containment measures including mobility and sociality restrictions, and closure of non-essential production activities and services. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the majority of governments around the world began implementing measures to interrupt the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Luxembourg is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe, with almost half of the population located in the capital city of Luxembourg [16, 17]. We do not know from our study whether adolescents’ sexual experiences and engagement in risky sexual behaviors preceded or followed sexting behaviors. Longitudinal studies that explicitly account for the time sequence are needed. In addition, questions on sexting were developed for this study and were not vetted by teens, potentially limiting the validity of our findings. We also did not inquire about the identity of whom teens sexted, who asked for a sext, and under what conditions sexting occurred.

Nearly all (84.2%) reported no change in how often they performed or watched sexual acts over the internet using a webcam. While some differences were noted with respect to sex, age, and race/ethnicity, it is clear that teen sexting is prevalent among adolescents. More than a quarter of teens in the current sample reported sending a naked picture of themselves to another teen, and more than half have been asked to send one.

During the pandemic, people’s lives dramatically changed and individuals had to cope with many stressors such as social isolation, recreative, physical, and social limitations, school closures, forced cohabitation, financial uncertainty, fear of contagion, and death. Such an emergency negatively affected individuals’ psychological health worldwide, triggering stressful emotional responses characterized by an increase in negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, and a decrease in positive emotions and life satisfaction (Li S. et al., 2020; Pera, 2020; Salari et al., 2020). For instance, recent research has shown that this situation induced a change in sleep-wake rhythms and a decrease in sleep quality (Cellini et al., 2020) and an increase in anxiety, depression, and harmful alcohol abuse (Ahmed et al., 2020; Cao et al., 2020; Pera, 2020).

Moreover, encouraging people to trying new sexual activities with their partner can be useful to cope with a stressful situation and to improve the couple’s sexual life. Special attention should be paid to categories mostly at risk of negative outcomes such as women and LGBT+ people, as well as individuals at risk for maladaptive use of sexting or pornography. Interventions to these latter risks should be focused on raising awareness on individual’s own coping responses and on the implementation of functional coping strategies. In a survey conducted on a sample aged 18 or older living in Australia, participants were asked about their sexual lives during all of 2019 and the period after March 22, coinciding with the lockdown period (Coombe et al., 2021). Responders reported a median of one sexual partner in both time windows considered but 89.8% said they had sex in 2019 while 60.3% said they had sex during lockdown. Only 14.3% of participants affirmed that they were having more sex during lockdown vs. the remaining participants (53.5%) who suggested a decrease in sex frequency.