As it turns out, we didn’t all spend the quarantine having sex. Despite early predictions of a coronavirus-induced baby boom, it seems that during lockdown we were less eager to jump into bed than some had imagined.
Justin Garcia, a sex researcher at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found, in a study of global sexual habits from mid-March to mid-May, that nearly half of those surveyed said they had sex less frequently and enjoyed it less during the pandemic (although some reported sexual experimentation).
He thinks there will be no baby boom to show for those two months of lockdown: “People report pretty high rates of feeling stressed and worried, and those are not psychological states conducive to sexuality,” he told the Financial Times.