This winter, the Kinsey Institute partnered with Hearst magazines Cosmopolitan and Esquire to investigate how Americans are coping with the pandemic in their sex lives, and what they think post-pandemic sex will look like. The survey, designed by the Kinsey Institute’s Dr. Amanda Gesselman, asked a national demographically-representative sample of 2000 Americans a variety of… Read more »
Dr. Amanda Gesselman has been awarded an SSRC Covid-19 Rapid-Response Grant. These grants provide funding for projects from across the social sciences and related fields that address the social, economic, cultural, psychological, and political impact of Covid-19 in the United States and globally, as well as responses to the pandemic’s wide-ranging effects.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to our social and intimate relationships. Quarantine and stay-at-home measures instituted to combat the spread of the virus have forced many families and couples to live in much closer and continual contact than we normally experience.