Why do certain people desire sex more strongly during quarantine, while it's the last thing many others can think about? This might be why.
As long as people can find symbolic meaning in sex, they are likely to desire sex rather than to avoid it, when mortality concerns loom. The specific reasons for desiring sex, however, should depend on what sex means to them personally, as demonstrated in one of our studies. In this study, we asked participants to think about their personal death . Then, participants were asked to rate their desire to engage in sex in different contexts.
The findings have revealed that when the possibility of personal death is salient, many people find sex more appealing and experience a heightened desire to engage in it, but only in the context of a close,. Engaging in sex in such a context generates a feeling of belonging, protection, and warmth, which may help assuage death fears.
This “carpe diem”—seizing the day—approach is typical in times of war, which make death salient. And yet, the pandemic differs substantially from war and may inspire ambivalence toward closeness and sex. On the one hand, an existential threat might be sexually arousing. On the other hand, the object of desire might be also the source of the threat, primarily among partners who do not cohabitate.
Hence, it is hard to predict whether the present situation will push people toward more frequent sexual activity or will instead produce a surge of emasculating anxiety, which will undermine the desire for sex and interfere with sexual functioning. To be sure, it is not easy to indulge in pleasurable, escapist sexual activity with a cloud of anxiety about being infected floating over you.
Birnbaum, G. E., Hirschberger, G., & Goldenberg, J. L. . Desire in the face of death: Terror management, attachment, and sexual motivation.
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