Is there a risk in having sex?

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Those who are lucky enough to have their other half under the same roof at the moment should not shy away from their pleasure. Really ? Some people worry, like this reader (this reader?) Of 20 Minutes , who asked us the following question:

"Can we have sex, and in what ways? ", Lulu

We undertook the investigation

Sex during the Coronavirus era is not prohibited. But it is necessary to take its precautions, more precisely to make sure that its partner does not present the currently known symptoms of Covid-19 - as a reminder, the main ones are fever or the sensation of fever and cough. The sudden loss of smell, without nasal obstruction and total disappearance of the taste, has also been observed in patients, specifies, among others, the Ministry of Solidarity and Health.

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Social distancing in case of doubt. Anyway, the new coronavirus transmitted by droplets (secretions projected invisible during a discussion, sneezing or coughing), the part of the legs in the air facing each other very close together is obviously risky. "If you have suspicions about the contamination of your partner, you must respect social distancing and not have contact with him or her," recalls Dimitri Lavillette, CNRS researcher seconded to the Pasteur Institute in Shanghai and whose work relates to interspecies transmission of the virus.

A sexually transmitted virus like Zika? In the current state of research, we know that the new coronavirus is not transmitted by blood. But can it be done through sex? "This is the whole question of the gateway to the virus," notes the researcher. It is true that we worried about it in Wuhan [city of the center of China, cradle of the pandemic of Covid-19]. Many patients were called back for a semen test, wondering if the virus could have infected the testicles. I don't know what the results are. But the question is open. Take the example of Zika, which we found to be sexually transmitted [from man to woman], which prompted us to reinvestigate all the ways of transmission of these arboviruses. "And Dimitri Lavillette slipped:" Anyway, in the research community, it's always no, until proven otherwise. "

Our file on containment

In summary, Lulu, you can continue to have sex if your partner does not have Covid-19 symptoms. Afterwards, we now know that people can be infected without showing symptoms of the disease…

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