A BIZARRE new health advice recommends “glory holes” as a safe way to practice sex and limit face-to-face contact amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) advises the public to “use barriers, like wall (e.g., glory holes)” for COVID-friendly sex and said people should “limit themselves to few regular partners.”
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Glory holes are small holes cut into walls or barriers that allow people to have sex with as little skin contact as possible.
The health chiefs also encourage people to wear face masks during sex and to use condoms, lubricants and dental dams to “further reduce the risk by minimizing contact with saliva, semen and feces during sex.”
New York City offered its citizens similar advice in a safer-sex guide, which tells New Yorkers to “Make it a little kinky.”
“Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls, that allow sexual contact with preventing close face to face contact,” the guide read.
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Although COVID-19 is not known to spread through sex, it could be transmitted in the breath and saliva of people who are close together if one of them is infected.
The BC CDC also gives advice for those seeking companionship outside their immediate bubble, saying virtual sex carries zero risk of spreading the virus.
Video dates, phone chats, sexting, online chat rooms and group webcam room are all options, though people and their partners should educate themselves on the security risks of online sex before logging on.
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“When guidelines come out and there’s discussion around glory holes and meeting people online or virtual masturbation or mutual masturbation… There’s always going to be some jest,” said Nicole Pasquino, the clinical practice director at Options for Sexual Health.
“This is nothing new to sexual health. We talk about harm reduction and minimizing risk all the time, way before the pandemic ever came.”
“What it’s about is keeping people safe,” she added.
