Coronavirus and sex – what is still safe?

Are you wondering about coronavirus and sex now? Here is some useful (and fact based) information, especially for those folks who are unwilling to get vaccinated and want to know how to work around that.

Everything you didn’t know about Coronavirus and sex: How to protect yourself in intimate settings.

Isn’t this just a flu virus?

COVID-19 is NOT ‘just the flu’. One of the biggest problems specific to THIS virus is that YOUR BREATH is virally contagious approximately 14 days (viral shedding cycle) BEFORE you start showing symptoms. This means that even if you look and feel perfectly fine, you are still transmitting the virus to everyone around you without knowing it, …the entire time.

We are still learning about it and what we DO know is that it is an inflammatory disease that will attack your internal organs and blood. It will cause hypercoagulability (excessive blood clotting) and this is what causes strokes, heart attacks and destroys kidneys. Dying is easy. But what if you end up having a stroke or kidney failure and need dialysis until the end of your life instead? Is it really worth it if it means you will spend the REST of your life suffering for it because you were healthy enough that it didn’t kill you when you first contracted it?

A nurse told me the other day about a 40 year old woman who was discharged from the hospital the other day. She was healthy enough to survive because she had no other medical conditions. However, the disease process of COVID-19 destroyed her kidneys in the process and now she will be on dialysis for the rest of her life. This pandemic is not a joke, hoax or conspiracy. It will destroy your life, one way or another if you aren’t taking it seriously.

I have a medical condition that prevents me from wearing a mas…. STOP, right there.

To date, there is no known medical condition that prevents the ability to wear a mask except having excessive, traumatic burns to the face and head. If you are in an ICU burn unit with this condition, not only will you not be required to wear a mask, you wouldn’t be thinking about seeing people face to face, either.

Common lies offered about supposed medical conditions:

1. I have asthma so I can’t… Nope. As an asthmatic who also knows alot of other asthmatics in various levels of asthmatic dysfunction, if this were remotely possible, you would need a medic alert bracelet to warn the EMT’s. Actual asthmatics will understand why.
2. You can get carbon dioxide poisoning from wearing a mask too long!…. Nope. There seems to be a guy online hawking his books that claims to be a doctor with emergency med experience who also earned a listing on Quackwatch. My guess is that his inability to differentiate between hypoxia and hypercarbia as medical conditions is one of the reasons.
3. I have HIPPA. Its a medical condition. …. Nope. And my friend, you should perhaps look up what HIPPA actually means before claiming it.
4. I have mysterious medical condition and I won’t tell you what it is because HIPPA….. You can’t HIPPA yourself. Surprise!
5. I have friends who are in the medical profession and I also have some medical education. I have searched pubmed myself.The result of all this is that no known medical condition can be found that prevents wearing a mask exists to date. You are welcome to prove us all wrong and provide credible citations that say otherwise.

“…. breathing all that carbon dioxide will poison you and cause medical problems!” — Okay, let’s assume you are wearing a mask with an air tight seal and ONLY allowing you to breathe your own exhalation that makes this a consideration…..

Humans, and many other species, need air to live. They breathe in the combination of elements and compounds and exhale a similar set with different proportions. Exhaled air consists of 78 percent nitrogen, 16 percent oxygen, 4 percent carbon dioxide and potentially thousands of other compounds.
https://sciencing.com/chemical-composition-exhaled-air-human-lungs-11795.html

Didn’t the sex work advocates across the globe say you can minimize risk of coronavirus and sex by having sex doggy style and reverse cow-girl?

Air circulates in the radius (or bubble) of up to 3 feet around us when we breathe normally. This is why they are constantly hawking the “6 feet of space” rule in public spaces. 3 feet of space per person. When you exhale, your “breath” and those “fine mist droplets” of air will float in that 3 foot bubble all around you and linger for up to 15 minutes if you are talking. There will be more of them and spread further distance the harder you breathe or the louder you talk. Citation here.

You are no dummy. Let’s think about this.

• A 3 foot bubble AROUND you, not just in front of you.
• Viral particles floating around as a fine mist from your exhale in that 3 foot bubble.
• Physical exertion means you are breathing harder than normal and inhaling/exhaling more deeply than usual.
• Talking/moaning/exclaiming/shouting with pleasure … even more particles moving farther from you and hanging around longer
• And you think not facing each other is somehow going to magically create a barrier between air circulating around you in 3 feet of space and another person inhaling it?

Wear a mask or get vaccinated and do not take medical advice from someone who isn’t an active, credible member of that field. You wouldn’t ask your mechanic to work on your house plumbing. Who are you accepting advice from about a lethal virus and how to protect yourself from it?

Well, good god, woman! How the hell am I supposed to have a sex life? My hand is about to file a restraining order for abuse!

Can you get coronavirus-19 from bodily secretions?

I am no expert but if you can get it through your tear ducts, I am going to assume you can get it through any mucous membrane just like you can get the herpes virus, HIV virus and other viruses through mucous membranes. The difference is that all viruses have their preferred Trojan Horse methods of entry because it is easier to get more of them into you with less effort.

COVID-19 travels on respiratory droplets (the fine mist from your breath and large droplets of spittle for you shouters and “wet talkers” out there) as its method of travel.

So for now, your biggest and greatest focus of concern remains the virus traveling on your breath, not your saliva, secretions or sweat.

What about oral sex? Do I pinch my nose and hold my breath while I am doing this?! Wear a mask with a hole in it for my mouth?

I am not saying that you are safe removing a mask during oral sex but what I AM saying is that one of you had better be wearing a mask during that entire time as the smallest amount of compromise and precaution. If you can wear a mask over your nose while doing your preferred activity, even better. Nothing is perfect but there are many things in life that are more painful than they are worth. Getting COVID-19 and ending up suffering a stroke, or kidney failure for the rest of your life (or dying) because of it for a few minutes of gratification isn’t really what I call “worth it”. This is the equivalent of risking life in prison or a death sentence for enjoying an ice cream cone. COVID-19 is not “just the flu”

Work with precautions where you can and keep your mask on as best you can, and where you can!

Typhoid Mary isn’t just a fable!

What’s that you say? You don’t need a mask because you can breathe through your ears?

But what about kissing… ?!

If you are seriously asking this question, you shouldn’t be allowed to roam freely amongst the public without supervision. Look in a mirror. See your mouth you use for kissing? Where is your nose? What are you breathing through? And how do you propose to kiss someone and NOT breathe into their face from less than an inch away. If this is a serious question, consider the new sex dolls as an alternative for your needs or GET VACCINATED.

Anal sex? Massage? Hand jobs? Is anything left that is safe anymore?!

We have recently learned that getting COVID-19 from surface contact is not as virulent a means of transmission as we once thought. Touching each other is no longer the high risk activity we thought it was. On the other hand, BREATHING on each other IS a high risk activity that guarantees transmitting the virus from one person to another.

AS LONG AS YOU KEEP YOUR MASK ON CORRECTLY, IT APPEARS TO BE ALL FAIR AND GOOD. MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS ABOUT THIS.

In some ways, getting a simple massage may be safer than heading out to the local pub to eat or drink in the company of other people (who are almost as physically close to you but without any of the reward for sharing air space). At this point, there is so much we still don’t know about this virus and because of the constantly evolving mutations, it is increasingly harder to keep up with what we need to know about it.

At this time, the best we can do is solid risk management and serious precautions, as best we can – and that means WEAR A MASK, CORRECTLY.

Basic cold and flu precautions for any and every meeting with me

The typical management for preventing transmission of respiratory contagions is standard contact and droplet precaution. In less virulent, or malignant situations like the common cold or flu, these are the health rules for being in my space:

• YOU MUST WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING ELSE. This is required, not optional.
• You should be sure that you do NOT have a fever when you leave your house. I might take your temperature before I will agree to begin. And no, rectal temperature taking is not part of your evaluation. Fever = NO massage.
• Don’t be surprised if I answer the door wearing a face mask, or ask you to wear one if you sound congested or cough. Until I am confident that you are not a nuclear reactor size glowing host of active virus shedding walking through my door, I might feel better wearing a face mask during those first 60 seconds of evaluating you. Again, nothing personal.
• “But its just allergies and I hate wearing face masks!,” you say. This isn’t Star Trek and I have no high tech device to scan you to determine ‘out of control’ allergies from something else. I understand but this still means you should plan ahead by taking your allergy medication and knowing it is effective before you show up.
• If you show up for your appointment and you are clearly sick, I will cancel your appointment. If you give me a hard time about it, I might be forced to notify other providers about your condition and refusal to be cooperative about health and safety concerns. Public health and community health matter. Just ask anyone who trying to protect their vulnerable loved ones from COVD-19.

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Now hear me out in this.

Anal sex.
While wearing masks.

I can’t be the only person that thinks this is hot in a delightfully, vaguely, pervy way. pic.twitter.com/Qknto9jvmQ

— Consent is sexier. (@9LivesofaCougar) June 23, 2020