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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How is quarantine changing sexual relationships for both singles and couples?

    Stay-at-home orders have been in effect for more than two months. What has that done to people’s sex lives, whether they have a partner or not? Britney Blair has conducted sex research in COVID-19 times.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 27, 2020 • 9m Listen

    Stay-at-home orders have been in effect for more than two months. What has that done to people’s sex lives, whether they have a partner or not? Britney Blair has conducted sex research in COVID-19 times. She’s a clinical psychologist who specializes in sexual medicine.

    “We're all going through this kind of collective trauma, which kind of introduces a level of vulnerability, and that vulnerability is a unique birthplace for intimacy,” she says.

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      licensed clinical psychologist, and board certified in behavioral sleep medicine, specializes in sexual health

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    California reopens. Is it safe to do so?
    1. 0:00LA reopens retail stores, churches, drive-in theaters. Is it the right time?
    2. 8:4416 kids in a class, playing alone at recess: What LA schools could look like
    3. 17:01Does President Trump have a First Amendment right to say what he wants on Twitter?
    4. 26:24‘The Painter and the Thief’: Documentary about an unlikely friendship
    5. 40:37How is quarantine changing sexual relationships for both singles and couples?You’re reading this
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