Before face-touching became potentially lethal, my friend Dave had a lot of lovers.
Now he makes do with nude selfies. He doesn’t even request them, he said. They appear as if by magic : “I wake up and they are just there.”
Matthew, an artist in Providence, R.I., said, “I keep getting explicit photos from people I thought were just my friends.” He added, “It’s nice to know they’re thinking of me.”
Since the pandemic began, sex has changed : It’s imagined, monogamous, Zoomed or Skyped. And nude
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