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SF health dept. publishes new 'risk reduction' guidance for sex during COVID
six-page document titled "Tip Sheet for Safer Sex During the COVID-19 Pandemic."The document recommends "avoiding close contact — including sex — with anyone outside your household or a small, stable social group."With sometimes racy subheads — such as "Suck it - or not?" and "Quicker can be better" — the document helps individuals to negotiate risk."Breathing, panting, shouts and groans, mouths, lips, eyes, spit, semen, anal play, and shared toys are all ways that COVID-19 can spread," the document states, going on to give some facts for the reader to consider, such as that individuals who are asymptomatic may be carrying the COVID-19 virus; that the virus has not been found in vaginal fluid; that heavy breathing increases risk of