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Partner Seeking and Sexual Behavior in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to March 2021
- Source :
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 49:e57-e60
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- We examined partner-seeking and sexual behaviors among a representative sample of U.S. adults (N = 1,161) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 10% of survey respondents sought a new partner, with age and sexual identity being associated with partner seeking behavior. Approximately 7% of respondents had sex with a new partner, which marks a decrease as compared to a pre-pandemic estimate from 2015 - 2016 in which 16% of U.S. adults reported having sex with a new partner during the past year. Among respondents who had in-person sex with a new partner during the first year of the pandemic, public health guidelines for in-person sexual activity were infrequently followed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Microbiology (medical)
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
Sexual identity
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Sexual Behavior
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
MEDLINE
COVID-19
Dermatology
United States
Sexual Partners
Infectious Diseases
Sexual behavior
Surveys and Questionnaires
Pandemic
Humans
Medicine
business
Pandemics
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15374521 and 01485717
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....85ec296a3342f102458741ea4c30376c