Consensus on Recommendations for Safe Sexual Activity during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Por:
Cabello F, Sánchez F, Farré JM and Montejo AL
Publicada:
1 jul 2020
Ahead of Print:
20 jul 2020
Categoría:
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Resumen:
Sexual activity offers numerous advantages for physical and mental health but maintains inherent risks in a pandemic situation, such as the current one caused by SARS-CoV-2. A group of experts from the Spanish Association of Sexuality and Mental Health (AESexSAME) has reached a consensus on recommendations to maintain lower-risk sexual activity, depending on one's clinical and partner situations, based on the current knowledge of SARS-CoV-2. Different situations are included in the recommendations: a sexual partner passing quarantine without any symptoms, a sexual partner that has not passed quarantine, a sexual partner with some suspicious symptoms of COVID-19, a positive sexual partner with COVID-19, a pregnant sexual partner, a health professional partner in contact with COVID-19 patients, and people without a sexual partner. The main recommendations include returning to engaging in safe sex after quarantine is over (28 days based on the duration one can carry SARS-CoV-2, or 33 days for those who are >60 years old) and all parties are asymptomatic. In all other cases (for those under quarantine, those with some clinical symptoms, health professionals in contact with COVID-19 patients, and during pregnancy), abstaining from coital/oral/anal sex, substituting it with masturbatory or virtual sexual activity to provide maximum protection from the contagion, and increasing the benefits inherent to sexual activity are recommended. For persons without a partner, not initiating sexual activity with a sporadic partner is strongly recommended.
Filiaciones:
Cabello F:
Instituto Andaluz de Sexología y Psicología, Alameda Principal 21, 5º, 29001 Malaga, Spain
:
Centro de Salud de Xàtiva, Avenida de Ausìas March s/n. Xàtiva, 46800 Valencia, Spain
Farré JM:
Department of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychosomatics, Dexeus University Hospital, Carrer de Sabino Arana, 5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Montejo AL:
Hospital Universitario Psychiatry Department, University of Salamanca Nursing School, Institute of Biomedical Research (IBSAL). Av., Donantes de Sangre SN, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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