Health officials in the Canadian state of British Columbia have suggested people use ‘glory holes’ to make sex safer during COVID-19. ‘Glory holes’ are holes cut in a wall that’s only large enough for a penis to get through.
For years they’ve been primarily the domain of illicit sex in public bathrooms and darkroom mazes in gay saunas and sex clubs.
But now the British Columbia Center for Disease Control (CDC) suggests trying them at home. On its site the CDC says: ‘Use barriers, like walls (eg, glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact.’ Can sex pass on COVID-19? In fact they aren’t the only ones offering the tip.