Open AccessLocked- Down of Intimacy, Sexuality and Relationship during Covid Pandemic: Short Review
Author(s) -
Mahendra Kumar,
Kusum R Rohilla,
Ankita Singh,
Anita Kumari,
Raman Sharma
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
national journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-6816
pISSN - 0976-3325
DOI - 10.55489/njcm13220225
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , human sexuality , affect (linguistics) , reproductive health , psychological resilience , psychology , sexual behavior , disease , medicine , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , environmental health , virology , gender studies , population , infectious disease (medical specialty) , communication , pathology , outbreak
The Covid pandemic brought a hard time for sexual and reproductive health. Lockdown and covid restrictions made it difficult to maintain healthy sexual life and relationship. Although Covid is not a sexually transmitted disease and but can get a transfer into others by close contact with suspected or confirmed positive partners. Sexual health is essential for couples to maintain trust, intimacy, and love in their relationships. Reportedly sexual practices of couples changed accordingly to avoid any possible risk of transfer of deadly Covid infection. This paper is a review of studies published during past two years of pandemic. Even when people showing high levels of resilience, the negative aspects of pandemic and lockdown could affect their quality of sexual life. We are witnessing a century’s crisis where the whole world is under threat of rapidly spreading the new infection COVID -19 and the overall global impact of this new pandemic is yet uncertain.