A slump in condom sales suggests Brits are shying away from sex during the lockdown. Laxman Narasimhan, the chief of Durex's parent company Reckitt Benckiser, has said that condom sales in most markets across the world, including the UK, have slumped since the pandemic began.
The firm has blamed the poor sales performance on the effect 'stay at home' policies are having on potential customers. "Intimate occasions are going down and that is a manifestation of anxiety," Mr Narasimhan told the BBC. "What you see is this virus is having a toll on the number of intimate occasions in the UK." The lockdown has presented people the world over with a whole new series of relationship challenges.