Couples are advised to wear masks during sex. Photo / 123RF
New York's City Health Department is urging people to wear masks while having sex, to help stop the pandemic.
Guidelines from the department state that New Yorkers should try to stay at home and have minimal contact with others, but accept people "will, and should, have sex".
Whether the coronavirus
can spread through intercourse has not yet been examined closely by scientists, although some believe it can be sexually transmitted.
But because the virus is known to spread through breathing in proximity to others, health officials say wearing masks in the bedroom should be considered.
"Make it a little kinky," the health department guidelines said. "Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls, that allow sexual contact while preventing close face-to-face contact."
