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Single men and women in the Netherlands are being advised to organise a seksbuddy (sex buddy) after criticism of rules dictating that home visitors maintain a 1.5-metre distance from their hosts during the coronavirus lockdown.

In a typically open-minded intervention, official guidance from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has been amended to suggest those without a permanent sexual partner come to mutually satisfactory agreements with like-minded individuals.

On the advice of scientists at the RIVM, the Netherlands has been on what the government describes as an intelligent lockdown since 23 March, allowing up to three visitors into homes on the strict condition that they keep their distance.

But the RIVM now concedes that it makes sense that as a single [person] you also want to have physical contact while warning that the risks of such intimacy should be managed.

Discuss how best to do this together, the RIVM suggests. For example, meet with the same person to have physical or sexual contact (for example, a cuddle buddy or sex buddy), provided you are free of illness. Make good arrangements with this person about how many other people you both see. The more people you see, the greater the chance of (spreading) the coronavirus.

The RIVM also has advice for those in a relationship with someone infected by coronavirus or in quarantine with suspected symptoms of the disease. Dont have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection, the RIVM says. Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible (think of telling erotic stories, masturbating together).

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The Dutch institutes change of mind on the fate of singletons follows the expression of immense frustration in some quarters at the rules for single people. In an opinion piece written in the Het Parool newspaper, Linda Duits, a journalist specialising in gender issues, squarely criticised the RIVM, arguing that sex was a human right.

Proximity and physical contact are not a luxury, they are basic needs, Duits wrote. If we have learned anything from the Aids epidemic, it is that not having sex is not an option.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus

Thoughts?
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just like elementary school all over again

i'd be the last one picked

In an opinion piece written in the Het Parool newspaper, Linda Duits, a journalist specialising in gender issues, squarely criticised the RIVM, arguing that sex was a human right.

I do kind of like that this opinion is either progressive or regressively misogynistic depending on who argues it.

nice

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NotYou posted...

I do kind of like that this opinion is either progressive or regressively misogynistic depending on who argues it.

depends on what you mean by it

Can't believe the Dutch are willing to sacrifice their grandparents just for the opportunity to have sex.

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AlephZero posted...

Can't believe the Dutch are willing to sacrifice their grandparents just for the opportunity to have sex.

I'm sure they'll understand tbh
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NotYou posted...

I do kind of like that this opinion is either progressive or regressively misogynistic depending on who argues it.

From what I could fund prostitution is already legal in the Netherlands so the it's the former as far as their people, and culture are concerned.

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not really hard to find a sex buddy when you have the red light district.

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Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible

sex with yourself at a distance?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible

sex with yourself at a distance?

Not my fault you have a small dick buddy
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teepan95 posted...

Not my fault you have a small dick buddy

if your dick is 1.5m long, you've got entirely different problems to deal with, such as being a beached whale.

Questionmarktarius posted...

teepan95 posted...

Not my fault you have a small dick buddy

if your dick is 1.5m long, you've got entirely different problems to deal with, such as being a beached whale.

my secret is out
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NotYou posted...

just like elementary school all over again

i'd be the last one picked

Bitches going to therapy over being the cheese in The Farmer in the Dell.

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