MysticMeghan Wed 11-Mar-20 16:38:14

Believe it or not, I tried to post this on a FB site where people are talking about Coronavirus. They seem quite happy to allow people to post unfounded internet myth and scare stories (i.e. people making YouTube videos about how the world is going to end, etc.), as well as loads of people saying that they think they have the virus because they have a sniffle and being upset when they call 111 to demand a test and get short shrift. But the FB admins wouldn't let me have an opinion because that opinion was about sex and people would rather not think about that.



I have a teenager at University, so it's not like I don't know what is happening. People (and not just students, because we have stories of infidelity wrecking lives and families on MN every single day) routinely pick up dates on tinder or find prostitutes or random people in nightclubs and quite happily have sex and share all sorts of bodily fluids with people whose names they don't even know. We live in an age of self entitlement where people have been brought up to think that self gratification is some kind of human right.



I'm not trying to make judgements here but merely point out that a lot of the people I am referring to above may already be married or in relationships and having gotten jiggy with a complete stranger quite frequently go home and have sex with their partner and think nothing of it. But as the saying goes, when you sleep with someone you sleep with everyone they have ever slept with and particularly if they slept with a load of other people quite recently, if even one of those has Coronavirus then its a fair bet that Mr or Mrs Unfaithful is going to get it too.



My point is that you can have the cleanest house in the world, never go out, wash everything in bleach and wear facemasks, but you could be letting this virus into your home and your body without ever realising, because someone else just wanted a bit of fun and no-one in your town has it, so what's the harm.



Ok, so no-one in their right mind is going to have sex with someone who is obviously feverish and coughing, but what if they haven't exhibited symptoms yet? Or don't know?



Has no-one considered that this might be a great way for the virus to propagate quite happily and no amount of hand sanitiser or hand washing is going to help?



Just saying, because let's face it the BBC is never going to run a story on this one.