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Moreover, 11.5% admitted to buying a sex toy since COVID-19 began and of these, 24.0% admitted that it was their first (Coombe et al., 2021). Although gender and attitudes towards women is an important subject studied by different fields of psychology, there are a finite number of studies on women in Turkey. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship of benevolent and hostile sexism in adult women with attitudes towards gender roles and different sex roles. In line with this purpose, Ambivalent Sexism Scale, BEM Sex Role Inventory and Gender Roles Attitude Scale were applied to 251 women chosen by adequate sampling method in order to determine the benevolent and hostile sexism, attitudes towards gender and gender roles. As a result of the study, it was found out that the gender role attitudes predict the benevolent and hostile sexism points in a substantive way.

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Cochran et al. (2000) found that lesbians reported using alcohol more frequently and in greater amounts than heterosexual women. Moreover, homosexual and bisexual men are at greater risk of suicide and depressive symptoms than heterosexual men (Cochran and Mays, 2000). Furthermore, compared to heterosexual men, MSM are more likely to be single (Shilo and Mor, 2020b) and this may lead to an increase in mental distress and perceived loneliness (Shilo and Mor, 2020a). According to WHO (2020), sexual health constitutes individual well-being at a physical, emotional, mental, and social level while sexual dysfunctions can be seen as a condition that prevents people from experiencing satisfaction from sexual activity (Karagöz et al., 2020).

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This becomes clear when observing that respondents who reported good general mental health presented higher scores of sexual satisfaction. This is in line with the literature, that found a higher risk of developing anxiety and depression among those who were not sexually active during the lockdown [13]. Other individual and couple protective factors to maintain mental health during the pandemic included problem-solving skills, positive reappraisal, self-efficacy, intimate partnership, social integration and mindfulness [35,36,37]. Similarly, to the adaptation findings regarding mental health, participants who reported no change in alcohol consumption had higher odds of reporting sexual satisfaction. This can possibly be explained by better personal resources to adapt to the pandemic context, and not using alcohol as a coping strategy to deal with the COVID-19 measures. Alcohol consumption as a coping strategy has been identified in previous pandemic outbreaks, e.g. severe acute respiratory syndrome [38].

Although social distancing measures reduced in-person interactions and flirting for MSM, dating applications became a key means of connection. Indeed, a percentage of respondents reported an increase or no change in the use of dating or hook-up apps to meet (5.8 and 44.9%, respectively), or connect (14.9 and 49.7%, respectively), with other men. Almost all the sample reported that condom access and usage were unchanged, although a high number of respondents reported increased difficulties to get access to HIV or STI testing and STI treatment. Finally, findings showed that 10 and 25% of participants had increased the use of recreational drugs and alcohol, respectively (Sanchez et al., 2020). The COVID-19 impact on women’s sexuality was confirmed by several studies showing an increase in female sexual disfunctions (Karagöz et al., 2020; Schiavi et al., 2020; Yuksel and Ozgor, 2020). Schiavi et al. (2020) found a significant decrease in Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) scores during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period in a sample of 89 Italian reproductive-age women, aged 28–50, living with their partners.

It will be important for research to explore the nuance in how issues like these during stay-at-home order provide or constrain opportunities for sex. We also need to acknowledge the high proportion of sexual minority participants in the sample—while their inclusion is not a direct limitation to our data, we are unable to comment on how different recruitment methods may have “over-sampled” individuals from this population. From this perspective, our data may not be representative of all sexual minority individuals. Considering the importance of sexual health for general health and wellbeing [14], there is a need to better understand the impact of social restrictions on individuals’ wellbeing and their sexuality. To address these and other questions around the impact of COVID-19 related lockdown measures and their effect on sexual behaviors, the I-SHARE consortium was established in early 2020. This is a collaborative effort including 30 countries with the aim of investigating sexual and reproductive health during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world [15].

Almost the entire sample (90%) used dating applications during the social-distancing period, but only 37.7% reported an increase in the use of these resources during the social-distancing period than before the outbreak (Shilo and Mor, 2020a). The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various aspects of our lives, from customer service to entertainment. One of the most intriguing and controversial applications of AI is AI sexting, a concept that has sparked debate about the boundaries of intimacy, technology, and relationships.

• They might claim to be in financial distress, facing a medical emergency, or needing financial resources to visit the victim.
• Overall, a certain reduction in sex frequency was found, mainly in singles and in those that were unable to reach their partners (Karagöz et al., 2020; Li W. et al., 2020; Luetke et al., 2020; Schiavi et al., 2020; Coombe et al., 2021; Mollaioli et al., 2021; Wignall et al., 2021).
• Table 1 displays the sample level prevalence of overall patterns of change in sexual behaviors.
• Very few participants reported only decreased behavior (3.3%), increased and decreased behaviors (3.4%), or increased and decreased behaviors (5.6%).
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Moreover, results showed a general decrease in intercourses frequency per month. A significant worsening in sexual function and quality of life, a decrease in the mean number of sexual intercourse sessions per month, and higher levels of distress were found in women working outside the home during quarantine. For women with a higher level of education during the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant difference was found in the number of intercourse sessions per month, in the FSFI score, and in quality of life but not in distress levels. Finally, women with one or more children showed a significant difference in FSFI scores during the COVID-19 outbreak (Schiavi et al., 2020).

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Moreover, GBMSM reported no changes or an increase in the number of casual sexual partners (Sanchez et al., 2020; Shilo and Mor, 2020a; Stephenson et al., 2020). It is possible that men are just looking at the perceived lower likelihood of transmission through sex, underestimating the threat of being in close physical contact. Furthermore, the lack of effective vaccine and medical treatment and the distressing news make people feel more threatened by having sex with a partner affected by COVID-19 than HIV (Shilo and Mor, 2020a). Interestingly, health workers compared to others were more likely to experience the fear of infecting their partners. The greater possibility to be infected and the tendency to protect their loved ones may have led to maintaining distance from their partners, leaving home or living in a separated room, and, consequently, to a reduction in sexual intercourse frequency (Baran and Aykac, 2021).

Moreover, during the pandemic, an increase in sexual experimentations was found. People who lived with their partners during the pandemic were more likely to try new sexual activities involving partners like new sexual positions and acting out sexual fantasies, than people who lived alone. On the opposite side, those who lived alone reported higher rates of virtually and technology-based behaviors (Lehmiller et al., 2020). Nonetheless, only trying new sexual activities with a partner, but not common technology-based additions, were related to improvements in sexual lives. The most common increased behavior among participants was hugging, kissing, holding hands, or cuddling with a main partner (21.5%), and the least common behaviors to increase were sex with a casual partner (5.8%) and performing or watching sexual acts over the internet (5.5%).