Sexuality, young people and covid: the lifesaver app. A Fiss survey to explore the experiences of young people in times of pandemic
Covid-19 has also affected young people intimately. The National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence of the Italian Federation of Scientific Sexology (Fiss) conducted a survey to explore the experiences of young people with respect to sexuality and affectivity in times of the pandemic.
3500 young people between the ages of 11 and 24 responded to the questionnaire, published on the website Skuola.net.
Young people who use dating apps to find sexual partners are 15,2%, including 3,6% who use them every day, 4,7% several times a week, 0,7% once a month and 6,2% who use them a few times. The daily use of apps to find sexual partners mostly involves young people between 19 and 24 years old (10,1%), males (6,7%), pansexual (18,2%) and asexual (12,1%) young people. Dating apps are used with the same frequency also for finding emotional partners (15%). Among these, in fact, 3,7% use them several times a day, 4,4% several times a week, 1% about once a month and 5,9% only a few times.
The daily use of apps for finding romantic partners involves mostly young people between 19 and 24 years old (10,3%), males (6,5%), pansexual (16,3%) and asexual (11,7%) young people. “With regards to the use of dating apps, 18,3% of young people consider them a good way to find romantic and sexual partners, while the majority (43,3%) declare that they are not always.
The criticality helps us to think that real contact is important and that young people are aware of it and that this is a good indication. Significant differences have emerged based on age, gender and sexual orientation", says Roberta Giommi, psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, director of the International Institute of Sexology in Florence, member of the Fiss board
Article published on March 24, 2022 - 16pm
