Empty cradles n this end of 2020 (even more so in 2021) for fear of the future, economic instability, uncertain scenarios, and a drop in sexual desire, a strict consequence of the climate of anxiety and stress, and of the limitations imposed by anti-contagion regulations . Istat has predicted that this year the births will be 408 thousand, a figure even lower than the absolute negative record of 420 thousand births in 2019.
According to the basis of recent trends, "The 420,000 births registered in Italy in 2019, which already represent a minimum never reached in over 150 years of National Unity, could drop to about 408,000 in the final balance of the current year - implementing in December a likely drop in conception in March - and then further reduced to 393,000 in 2021 ".
, were the Bocconi researchers Arnstein Aassve, Nicolò Cavalli, Letizia Mencarini, Samuel Plach, and Massimo Livi Bacci of the University of Florence who, with the study The Covid-19 pandemic and human fertility, also published in the prestigious journal Science, have shown how fertility could decrease after Covid19 due to multiple factors, such as "economic uncertainty and the" increase in the burden on families for the care of children ".
But not only that, to determine the suspension or postponement of a pregnancy, there would also be the "organization of family life caused by prolonged isolation, the management of children following the closure of schools and the worsening of economic prospects." A decline in births. , the researchers point out, would lead to an aging population and demographic decline, with implications for public policy.
presented in June by Durex / Anlaids which involved 500 people aged between 16 and 55 in Italy. 83% of respondents in Italy confessed a general decrease in sexual desire and practice during the lockdown period, with only 23% claiming to have maintained a level of sexual activity almost equal to the pre-quarantine period. Among the main reasons for the decline in desire identified by the researchers are: anxiety, fear of contagion, the presence of children at home, travel restrictions, and the obligation of social distancing.
The fear of the spread of the virus, prohibited movements and social distancing, would have further limited the relationships between non-cohabiting people and for singles, but the research has shown how the quarantine has led to a decrease in sexual activity even for couples who they live under the same roof, or have been consolidated for years: for 65% of the interviewees, sexual relations were reduced.
For 62% c "the decrease in desire also enters. Even the levels of satisfaction from the meetings with the partner, have changed considerably during the lockdown periods of this 2020: from the research of Durex and Anlaids it emerged that the percentage of satisfied with the their sexual activity went from 73% to 58%, while the dissatisfied increased: from 17% to 22%.
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