Now I'm as open to a little cosplay as anyone but looking back, this was nuts.
From Timeout, June 8 2020:
If you're not in quarantine together, whip that mask out.
Turns out that the only fool-proof way to avoid contracting COVID-19 while having sex is abstinence. No surprise there, of course.
But that's not the only suggestion made by Harvard University researchers following a new study they conducted about sexual health in the coronavirus era.
"On the basis of existing data, it appears all forms of in-person sexual contact carry risk for viral transmission, because the virus is readily transmitted by aerosols and fomites," reads the study, confirming that intimacy does, indeed, carry along with it a risk of exposure.
The researchers offer a broad range of recommendations for couples who are not quarantining together and want to avoid the spread of the disease while having sex. The suggestions include wearing masks, avoiding kissing, showering before and after sex and "cleaning of the physical space with soap or alcohol wipes."
The experts actually go a step further, ranking sexual scenarios based on how likely it is you'd catch the virus while partaking in them....
....MUCH MORE
The study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine can be found at the National Library of Medicine (link above).
Ann Intern Med. 2020 May 8:M20-2004. doi: 10.7326/M20-2004Sexual Health in the SARS-CoV-2
Era Jack L Turban 1, Alex S Keuroghlian 2, Kenneth H Mayer 3
PMCID: PMC7233185 PMID: 32384139
