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Are we having more sex now?
Updated On: 10 May, 2020 07:46 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
The lockdown and its implications have a deep connection with intimacy, say experts. Minus the excuse, "Not tonight honey, I'm tired", are couples at home, having more sex? The answer is yes and no

Illustration/ Uday Mohite
For Sonali and Harshil Shah, intimacy moves into the bathroom in the afternoons. Long showers, is how she describes spending tender moments with her husband. This was of course, unimaginable a month-and-half ago, when the two would be sweating it out at work. Although the two are put up at her parents' home in Dadar, and the live-in house help takes care of the day's cooking, stress levels are at an all-time low. "And I don't have to see the boss' face," she laughs. The choreographer and tech company professional would otherwise meet late night which meant the sex was present, but not as languorous. "We are spending more time with each other," says the 32-year-old who met Harshil on Hinge about a year ago.
Right before the lockdown in March, Indian pharmacies and condom retailers were quoted in reports saying that as a readying measure for staying and working from home, along with buying medicines, people had pushed the sales of condoms by 50 per cent. Pornhub cited a spike in its users (55 per cent on the first day), and was followed by another interesting survey. Extra-marital dating website Gleeden, which has almost five million subscribers worldwide, and eight lakh active users in India, reported a 70 per cent spurt in Indian members, many of them women since they were allowed to use the site for free.




