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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"a little kinky and creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls"?
Public health officials weigh in on safer sex & dating during COVID but will anyone listen?
Would you consider getting "a little kinky and creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls"?
By NICOLE KARLIS
DECEMBER 17, 2020 12:21AM
(Salon) Earlier this month, San Francisco implemented a new stay-at-home order banning city-dwellers from seeing another person outside of their households. While the act of dating wasn't explicitly mentioned in the order, many took this opportunity to assume that dating was canceled. Nearly a week later, the city quietly updated its order stating that people were allowed to meet with one other person outside one's household. Two people could take a walk, hang out at the park, or according to the order's wording "play low-contact sports like golf, tennis, pickleball, and bocce ball (but don't share equipment)."
Did this cryptic change mean dating was back on?
San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney proceeded to tweet about the change and provide more transparency around what this meant in the realm of dating. "In-person dating is no longer banned in San Francisco, but you can only date outdoors and no double dates," he tweeted. "You can kiss, but only if you move in together."
Haney went on to explain that his tongue-in-cheek tweets, which were both "factual and sarcastic," had a bigger point, which was to give people "more ways to interact with each other safely." "Dating will happen," he said. "People will spend time together. Acting as though it won't is unrealistic, contradictory, and will backfire."
....(snip)....
In The Atlantic, Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School, argued that Americans haven't received the correct "harm-reduction approach" to reopening their lives during the pandemic. Marcus noted how public health officials in the Netherlands advised that people find a "seksbuddy," a trusted person to have an exclusive sexual relationship with during lockdown. "Unlike abstinence-only messaging, which simply instructs people to stay home, a harm-reduction approach acknowledges that people will take risks for a variety of reasons, including a basic need for pleasure," Marcus wrote. ............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/16/dating-sex-covid-19-guidelines-public-health/
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"a little kinky and creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls"? (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2020
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aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)1. I thought outside sex was why the Golden Gate Park existed.
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. I think it's called phone sex.
What are you wearing?
Throck
(2,520 posts)11. Best response award.
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)3. Imagination can take you places.
Stallion
(6,474 posts)4. Its Been So Long Since I've Had Sex that I'm Reapplying for Virgin Status with the Pope
tough on us single guys
sarisataka
(18,654 posts)5. I have heard rumors of some places with walls
That have holes in them...
Apparently it can be glorious
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)6. Remember former senator Larry Craig (R-ID)?
He knows all about those.
marmar
(77,080 posts)7. Wasn't he the bathroom toe tapper?
sarisataka
(18,654 posts)8. Bingo nt
Volaris
(10,271 posts)10. Ya cause those places are sterilized after use hahaha...