‘Apocalyptic’ Need for Intimacy and Sexual Desires

In our understanding of Playful and Creative Science, we’ve wondered if we could ask ourselves the question if the corona pandemic influences sexual drive and need for intimacy. In our approach to answering this question, we’ve looked at public online search results as proxy. Using Google statistics, we’ve found interesting overlapping patterns in nightly search commands regarding sexual terms (as ‘vibrator’ or ‘porn’) as well as terms regarding intimacy (as ‘relationship’ or ‘love’).

In collaboration with:
Tobias van der Kleij