Department of Philosophy, Social & Human Sciences and Education, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Myèsis, Research and Development Company, Rome, Italy.
PLoS One. 2022 May 5;17(5):e0268079. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268079. eCollection 2022.
From March 11 to April 26, 2020, the Italian government imposed a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, a quarantine that resulted in significant restrictions on the movement and social contacts of the population, with a view to limiting the pandemic outbreak. The quarantine forced people to experience distorted social distance in two contrasting ways. For some people, it resulted in social distancing and isolation, for example by separating noncohabiting couples into different dwellings. For others, however, quarantine increased and imposed social closeness, forcing couples and families into constant, daily, and prolonged cohabitation. The aim of this study was to investigate the sexual health and behaviors of Italian adults during the lockdown period using a multimethod research. An open- and a closed-ended e-questionnaire were administered immediately after the end of the lockdown. A total of 465 Italian adults completed the digital questionnaire (female = 78.7%). Participants recognized their lived sexual experience with generally positive characteristics (related to openness, unproblematic relationship with the body, and awareness and self-reflection about one's sexuality), while negative thoughts such as worry and pain were quite scarce. Participants with a disability (5.6%) showed a marked inversion compared to the mean of respondents, recognizing themselves mainly in negative thoughts related to low self-esteem, inadequacy, and feelings of suffering, yet reporting a higher than mean level of arousal. In the qualitative analysis, the Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) index was computed to measure the salience of the word used by participants to respond to the open-ended five questions. It revealed a generally depressed emotional experience associated with the experience of lockdown, both in terms of desire, which seemed to be shifted more to the level of imagination and fantasies, and the actual possibility of experiencing sexual activity as usual. Nevertheless, the participants emphasized an opening to new possibilities in terms of expressing sexuality, accompanied by a rediscovery of the value of tenderness and affectivity as well as a clearer awareness of their sexual life, needs, and desires.
从 2020 年 3 月 11 日至 4 月 26 日，意大利政府实施了全国范围的 COVID-19 封锁，这一隔离措施对民众的行动和社会接触造成了重大限制，旨在限制疫情爆发。这种隔离迫使人们以两种截然不同的方式体验扭曲的社交距离。对于一些人来说，这导致了社交距离和隔离，例如将非同居夫妇分开居住在不同的住所。然而，对于其他人来说，隔离增加了并强加了社会亲密性，迫使夫妻和家庭经常、日常且长时间地同居。本研究旨在使用多方法研究调查意大利成年人在封锁期间的性健康和行为。在封锁结束后立即使用开放式和封闭式电子问卷进行调查。共有 465 名意大利成年人完成了数字问卷（女性占 78.7%）。参与者以普遍积极的特征（与开放性、与身体无问题的关系以及对自身性行为的认识和自我反思有关）来认识自己的性生活体验，而诸如担忧和痛苦等负面想法则相当罕见。有残疾的参与者（5.6%）与受访者的平均值相比表现出明显的反转，主要认识到自己与自尊心低、不适应和痛苦有关的负面想法，但报告的唤醒水平高于平均值。在定性分析中，计算了频率逆文档频率（TF-IDF）指数，以衡量参与者对开放式五个问题的回答中使用的单词的突出程度。它揭示了与封锁经历相关的普遍压抑的情绪体验，无论是在欲望方面，欲望似乎更多地转移到想象和幻想的层面，还是在通常情况下体验性活动的实际可能性方面。然而，参与者强调了在表达性方面的新可能性，伴随着对温柔和情感价值的重新发现，以及对他们的性生活、需求和欲望的更清晰认识。
