So, are we really about to step into a summer of love? Single people and behavioural experts share their thoughts:
When I ask her for her thoughts of intimacy in a supposed summer of love, she says: “Our research tells us that most people have been missing touch during lockdown, which suggests we’ll be keen to relax the social distancing and hug each other again. So we might see something like the Roaring 20s that followed the Spanish Flu.
Dr Bowling makes a very good point here about the fact that not everybody is the same. Even if I decided I wanted to go at full pelt with my sexy and sociable summer, it’s important to understand that a lot of people I meet or date might not share the same confidence and could be way more cautious about touching strangers.
“It’s true that there’ll really be a population of people who have missed physical touch and just having those lighter moments after a year of having a heavily confined experience, so I think we’ll see a few different trends,” she tells me over Zoom. “But what we’re hearing is that, before the pandemic, people prioritised work, family and hobbies – with dating coming last.
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