Between low libido and the impossibility of seeing each other, many couples have suffered during this health crisis.
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- According to an Ifop and Charles.co survey, 44% of French people did not have sex in the first month of confinement.
- Even when you are permanently with your partner, it is important to rekindle the flame of sexual desire.
- Technology can help us maintain libido even with distance.
According to a survey, 44% of French people claim not to have had sex during the first month of confinement, compared to 26% previously. Whether it is because of a drop in libido or a more or less chosen distance, the Covid-19 crisis has put couples to the test.
How to regain a libido?
Promiscuity, the absence of personal space or time for oneself have multiplied tensions and arguments within couples confined together, thus lowering the libido and the frequency of sexual intercourse. For some, the distance is such that it could lead to a temporary or permanent separation.
To help your couple rediscover the flame of sexual desire, it is important to show originality by surprising your partner. Even if you are still together 24 hours a day, you can always invent new rituals, such as a romantic dinner prepared at home, a massage, or the creation of scenarios and erotic games stimulating everyone’s imagination.
How to cultivate desire when you are far away?
The confinement and the current restriction rules have separated some couples for several weeks. For these long-distance relationships, loneliness and lack can hurt and make people fear the future.
In this particular context, communication remains essential to not only discuss one’s emotions, but also about one’s future projects and share daily life as much as possible. The use of technological means can also be useful for stimulating the libido from a distance, and rediscovering certain pleasures for two, even from a distance. Do not hesitate to cultivate sexual desire for each other and prepare for your reunion by imagining what will please you. Until then, it is important to support each other by keeping a virtual proximity as much as possible.
Source: Ifop and Charles.co survey, conducted among a sample of 3,045 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over, by self-administered online questionnaire from April 24 to 27, 2020.
Find out more: “But where did my libido go?”, by Christophe Marx, Eyrolles editions.
Below: the interview with Pr Boris Cyrulnik on the effects of confinement:
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