Over 35% of Italians reported a change in sexual activity during the months of national lockdown, with 8% increasing and 27% decreasing such activity. This is what emerges from the first study conducted in Italy on a representative sample of the adult population and recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology.
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Notably, among people confined under the same roof between March and May 2020, one in five couples reported a decline in sexual activity compared to pre-lockdown habits. The decline was greatest for men, especially the younger, the more educated, and those living in more precarious housing conditions.
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The study is the result of the work of a multidisciplinary consortium involving psychiatrists, psychologists, public health experts and biostatisticians from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the Universities of Genoa and Pavia, the Mario Negri Institute, ISPRO and the Company Careggi University Hospital.
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