{"id":6630,"date":"2016-03-29T02:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2016-03-29T02:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:00:20","slug":"masturbate-sex-covid-19-lockdown-made-us-all-more-horny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6630","title":{"rendered":"Masturbate Like It\u2019s the End of the World: Has the Covid-19 Lockdown Made Us All More Horny?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> came to the party very late. Like, 13 years late. But I did it. With Kim Kardashian\u2019s sex tape, I have discovered lockdown sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One June night, in a moment of quiet desperation, after having hibernated in isolation for 100 days from my boyfriend \u2013 isolated in a different city (us, children of circumstance) \u2013 I pounced on the raunchy, camcorder-held, erratically shot and minimally edited footage of buttocks and tongues, uncomfortable close-ups of warped faces and strains of dulcet moans. I played along, and, err, finished nicely. (Afterwards, I had trouble looking Kim K in the eye during my lockdown sex marathons of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/kylie-jenner-kardashian-pregnancy\/\">Keeping Up With The Kardashians<\/a>,<\/em> but that is a secret I trust you will keep.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That opened the floodgates. Self-pleasuring was suddenly all-consuming; it was all I could think about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a moment of uncharacteristic shame, I trawled social media, wondering if my late-night raunchies, which had gotten more frequent and more tsunami-like with each sex-starved night, had any sympathisers. I was very heartened when the first thing I read was this enlightened tweet from an enterprising lady: \u201cToday, I grabbed my own ass\u201d. I sighed quietly. She gets it, I told myself \u2013 and so did an avalanche of other people on Reddit and Twitter, on dark Instagram and WhatsApp sub-groups, who were reportedly going through PornHub caches by the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was I on to something? I decided to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reached out first to a test group of kindred souls, unpartnered (or away from Bumble\u2019s algorithms), and with access to the internet and some form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/welcome-to-the-wetlands\/single-woman-porn-pleasure-india-sex-masturbation-orgasm\/\">porn<\/a>. One had been Long Time Single, she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been fine,\u201d she insisted. \u201cBut this lockdown has been an eye-opener for me in terms of my sexual needs! Porn and \u2013 funnily \u2013 soft erotica on Netflix have been keeping me going.\u201d Long Time Single has found newfound bonhomie with girlfriends who have been texting each other videos to watch, erotica to read, fictional men to orgasm to. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re behaving like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/delhis-elite-school-going-boys-talk-casually-about-rape\/\">teenage boys<\/a>, passing DVDs under the school bench in secret. Will it be <em>equally<\/em> amazing to \u2018do it\u2019 for real with someone after the lockdown? I\u2019m not so sure\u2026.\u201d<br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Horny But Confused can totally relate, and has been feeling hornier than before with each extension of the lockdown.<\/blockquote><br>Long Time Single may be heartened to know she is in august company: the men and women of World War II Britain. In a quote to <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/04\/24\/coronavirus-uk-lockdown-making-us-hornier-12601223\/\">Metro UK<\/a>, Jessica Leoni, sex and relationship expert, talks about how \u201cThere is a lot of research showing there was heightened promiscuity in Britain during World War Two, for instance, due to an \u2018end of the world feeling\u2019 that we could die at any moment.\u201d This holds true in data collected post WWII \u2013 which showed a massive spike in birth rates right after the war \u2013 a fact that has led many around the world to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-52490023\">predict a baby boom<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u2018baby boom\u2019 theory has been equally contested by sexperts who say the converse is often true after a crisis (aka fewer babies). But what of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/whats-up-with-indias-obsession-with-shilajit-the-indian-viagra\/\">libido<\/a> boom in the absence of boom boom? What about all masturbatory emissions and unabashed hunts for Kim K\u2019s old butt? For the disbelieving, PornHub has graciously supplied the world with a graph, after it announced a month\u2019s free access to its \u201cpremium\u201d porn in April. While the entire world documented a handsy rise in traffic, India <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/buzz\/pornhub-records-95-percent-increase-in-traffic-from-india-amid-21-day-lockdown-2566267.html\">recorded the highest jump<\/a>, with 95% in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in case you thought eroticisation of mortal dread couldn\u2019t get any funkier, there\u2019s a whole new category of \u201ccoronavirus porn\u201d. It\u2019s exactly how you picture it. Men and women in hazmat suits and N95s crinkling their cloaked penises and stroking their shielded breasts coquettishly across quarantine rooms. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, why the sudden insistence on lockdown sex or porn? I ask Stranded From Partner, who \u201ccannot control herself\u201d. \u201cI dream a lot more than I used to, reminiscing about all the amazing sex I\u2019ve had before. Because I\u2019m away from my sexual partner, I think I\u2019m masturbating more to the memory of him.\u201d She can sense a definite metamorphosis in her self-pleasuring skills. According to her, earlier masturbation felt like a distraction. \u201cNow, the primal need to masturbate is so high that it can overpower my mornings as easily as my nights. It\u2019s like&#8230; I have no idea what the future looks like so may as well touch myself in the present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stranded From Partner tells me she\u2019s at her \u201csexual peak\u201d right now, but where do women and men get off nursing such extravagant libidos at a time of impending doom? Could you even climax as the world around you teeters anticlimactically?<br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">&#8220;Because I\u2019m away from my sexual partner, I think I\u2019m masturbating more to the memory of him.\u201d<\/blockquote><br>Turns out, there\u2019s science enough to back why you\u2019re breaking your back right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/07481180490490988\">A series of studies<\/a> published in 2010 on the link between fears of death and sexual arousal found that when mortality was salient or conspicuously close, \u201cit led to higher willingness to engage in risky sexual behaviours\u201d. Dr Justin Lehmiller, social psychologist, elaborated on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/sex-women\/a31897503\/horny-quarantine-coronavirus-covid-19\/\">to an interviewer<\/a> when he said, \u201cSex is an activity that makes a lot of us feel more \u2018alive\u2019, so it shouldn\u2019t be surprising that a pandemic that confines people to their homes would promote more interest in activities that give them this powerful feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horny But Confused can totally relate, and has been wanting lockdown sex, feeling hornier than before with each extension of the lockdown. \u201cMy body has never been this isolated.\u201d This young woman relies on sexting and occasional porn. \u201cI think, in times of crisis, when you have somebody to be intimate with, you derive great comfort. It\u2019s the little things, the touch of your skin to theirs, the way they hold you. I think we all miss that \u2013 that human contact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there is Too Annoyed to Masturbate, who thinks it is because she\u2019s home a lot more than she used to be. This is the longest she\u2019s gone without meeting someone she liked off an app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, some of us find encouragement in some pretty neat studies linking orgasm through masturbation to raising your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/11197870\/masturbating-helps-boost-immune-systems-fight-off-infections-during-coronvirus\/\">white blood cell count<\/a>. Do it for the immunity. As for me, I am glad I found Kim K\u2019s 2002 butt. In case you\u2019re interested in lockdown sex, you\u2019ll find it where you find all things at night in a lockdown: Your incognito internet, next to a box of tissues and your salient fear of mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the lockdown, away from my partner, I finally gave in and watched the Kim Kardashian sex tape. That opened the floodgates. Self-pleasuring was suddenly all-consuming; it was all I could think about. 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