What does coronavirus porn look like? Perhaps not surprisingly, it involves a lot of people having sex while wearing masks, surgical gloves, and hazmat suits. Your next question is probably why people are looking for this kind of porn, and the answer is similar to why people look for holiday porn. In part, it reflects our constant need for sexual novelty and humans’ ability to fetishize virtually everything. In this case, however, what we’re seeing might also be an eroticization of fear. It has been well established that strong emotions are often mistaken for sexual attraction. For example, when people engage in activities that produce high-arousal states—like riding a roller coaster—and then encounter an attractive stranger, attraction to that person increases. In other words, high-fear states have the potential to amplify sexual arousal and attraction. So if people are on edge from coronavirus news (meaning they’re in a heightened state of generalized physiological arousal) and, say, see a media image of an attractive person wearing a mask, this could lay the foundation for them to start sexualizing coronavirus imagery…
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