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Section 2422(b) makes it a crime to use the U.S. Mail or certain technology, such as the Internet or the telephone (whether mobile or a land line), to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor to engage in prostitution or any other illegal sexual activity. For example, it is a federal crime for an adult to use the mail, a chat room, email, or text messages to persuade a child to meet him or her to engage that child in prostitution or other illegal sexual activity. Under this statute, it is not necessary to prove that either the defendant or the victim crossed state lines. The penalty for this offense is not less than ten years in prison, up to life. Finally, 18 U.S.C § 2425 makes it illegal for any person to use the mail, telephones, or the Internet, to knowingly transmit the name, address, telephone number, social security number, or email address of a child under the age of 16 with intent to entice, encourage, offer, or solicit any person to engage in criminal sexual activity. This offense is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Two common changes that older adults experience are related to the sex organs. The vagina can shorten and narrow, and the vaginal walls can become thinner and stiffer. For most, there will be less vaginal lubrication, and it may take more time for the vagina to naturally lubricate itself. These changes could make certain types of sexual activity, such as vaginal penetration, painful or less desirable.

Arthritis. Joint pain due to arthritis can make sexual contact uncomfortable. Exercise, drugs, and possibly joint replacement surgery may help relieve this pain. Rest, warm baths, and changing the position or timing of sexual activity can be helpful.

If ED is the problem, it can often be managed with medications or other treatments. A health care professional may suggest lifestyle changes, such as limiting alcohol or increasing physical activity, to help reduce ED. A health care professional may also prescribe testosterone for people with low levels of this hormone. Although taking testosterone may help with ED, it may also lead to serious side effects and can affect how other medicines work. Make sure to talk with your health care provider about testosterone therapy and testing your testosterone levels. Be wary of any dietary or herbal supplements promising to treat ED. These products may have dangerous side effects or interact with prescription medicines. Always talk to a health care provider before taking any herb or supplement. Another important reason to see your health care provider for ED is that it may be a sign of an underlying health problem that should be treated, such as clogged blood vessels or nerve damage from diabetes.

To evaluate the cardiovascular effects of sexual activity, researchers monitored volunteers while they walked on a treadmill in the lab and during private sexual activity at home. In addition to 13 women, the volunteers included 19 men with an average age of 55. About three-quarters of the men were married, and nearly 70% had some form of cardiovascular disease; 53% were taking beta blockers. Despite their cardiac histories, the men reported exercising about four times a week, and they reported having sexual activity about six times a month on average.

Researchers monitored heart rate and blood pressure during standard treadmill exercise tests and during "usual" sexual activity with a familiar partner at home. All the sex acts concluded with vaginal intercourse and male orgasm.

Men seem to spend more energy thinking and talking about sex than on the act itself. During sexual intercourse, a man's heart rate rarely gets above 130 beats a minute, and his systolic blood pressure (the higher number, recorded when the heart is pumping blood) nearly always stays under 170. All in all, average sexual activity ranks as mild to moderate in terms of exercise intensity. As for oxygen consumption, it comes in at about 3.5 METS (metabolic equivalents), which is about the same as doing the foxtrot, raking leaves, or playing ping pong. Sex burns about five calories a minute; that's four more than a man uses watching TV, but it's about the same as walking the course to play golf. If a man can walk up two or three flights of stairs without difficulty, he should be in shape for sex.

Sex is a normal part of human life. For all men, whether they have heart disease or not, the best way to keep sex safe is to stay in shape by avoiding tobacco, exercising regularly, eating a good diet, staying lean, and avoiding too much (or too little) alcohol. Needless to say, men should not initiate sexual activity if they are not feeling well, and men who experience possible cardiac symptoms during sex should interrupt the sexual activity at once.

Several scholarly databases, namely MEDLINE (via PubMed interface), Web of Science (WOS), Embase, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, and PsycINFO databases, were mined from December 2019 to the end of January 2021. We utilized a random-effect meta-analytical model to analyze all the data. More in detail, the Standardized Mean Difference (SMD) was used in order to estimate and evaluate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual activity and functioning.

Critical situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic can affect the frequency and duration of sexual intercourse, as well as quality of sexual activity [21, 22]; on the other hand, sexual intercourse could be a major risk of contagion [35] because sexual intercourse requires close physical contact, and SARS-CoV-2 is very easily transmitted with this level of closeness [36]. Conversely, healthy, safe, and frequent sexual activity might attenuate the negative psychological effects associated with the infection [35]. Results of various studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual activity are very different [36,37,38]. Some of these results show that there may be gender-specific differences in the way the lockdown influenced the frequency of sexual intercourse [38].

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been studying the impact of this disease and the policies implemented to contain the outbreak on various societal phenomena, including sexual activity and functioning. Awareness of the findings of these studies can help public health policy- and decision-makers identify effective causes of decreased/impaired quality of sexual activity, and design and provide effective programs to improve it. Therefore, given the contrasting findings of the literature, the purpose of this study was to systematically identify, collect and summarize the existing body of evidence from published studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual activity and functioning by means of standardized and reliable tools.

Table 1 shows the most important characteristics and findings of the 21 studies included. All studies used online questionnaires or social media to collect data due to the impossibility of having face-to-face interactions because of the COVID-19 related restrictions. In total, 2454 women and 3765 men were evaluated. FSFI and IEEF-5 were the two measures used in the present meta-analysis to assess sexual activity and functioning.

Moreover, participants reported a decrease in the number of sexual partners, sex without marriage (with a girl/boyfriend), and risky sexual behavior. It should be noted that these raw data and estimates were very heterogeneous, and we could not combine it with specific statistical methods; therefore, we were not able to perform a meta-analysis. Accordingly, these findings have been only qualitatively included and assessed in this study, showing the changes in various sexual activity domains before and during the quarantine.

Also, the findings of this study showed that higher-educated people experienced a significant reduction in sexual activity. In the included studies, women with higher levels of education were more likely to have less sexual activity than women with lower levels of education. Participants with higher education had more information about COVID-19 and therefore were more afraid of transmitting the disease to their sexual partners than those who were less aware of the disease [79]. According to the findings of some studies, participants with higher levels of education were more likely to experience COVID-19 induced anxiety, stress, and depression [80] and social constraints made them more concerned about losing their job [81]. Furthermore, in the included studies, young health care workers with a higher level of education who were also alone showed no difference in working habits during the COVID-19 induced lockdown and experienced a significantly decrease in their sexual desire compared to other participants [48].

In this study, we found that the FSFI score in women before and after the COVID-19 pandemic decreased significantly. Studies show that being in a critical situation for women can reduce their social activities and can cause as well sexual dysfunction [52, 60, 64]. Moreover; our results also showed that the IIEF-5 score decreased in men and this decrease was as well statistically significant. The decrease in sexual activity and desire was, however, higher among females than among men, and this could reflect a gender-specific difference, as found by other studies. According to these investigations, this difference can be due to sex- and gender-related variables, in terms of physical and mental characteristics of men and women, and, as such, the response to exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic can be different and differently affect sexual activity [69]. One of the reasons for such differences could be that women are more willing to respond transparently concerning their sexual status during the COVID-19 pandemic than men [66]. In a study conducted to find the causes of this difference, the majority of women declared that the reason might be associated with isolation from their partner (41.5%), 39.3% felt lack of desire caused by stress, and 16% had misunderstandings with their partners [51]. Also, sexual stress was significantly greater in females than males [58]. Furthermore, chronic stress increases cortisol levels especially in women, leading to sexual dysfunction, in particular decreased sexual arousal [64]. 781b155fdc