Who could imagine that radical behavioral changes required due to the new coronavirus would make kissing dangerous and caressing forbidden?
Sadly, health professionals have largely ignored sex and intimacy as they outline the dos and don'ts of our current lives. The implicit message is that we shouldn't be talking about sex when people are dying.
However, that is the wrong response to an urgent human need. Throughout the last century, LGBT men and women were forced to assess the risks of desire.