Have you had IT yet?

‘Have you had it yet?’ I can imagine this becoming the new standard question when you first go to bed with someone. Or even stronger, when you kiss someone. Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine about dating, flirting, meeting people in these corona times. It immediately became clear that he was a lot better at it than I was (or worse: I take that quarantine a lot more seriously). And he had a date with a girl he met before the corona crisis about two weeks ago.

Dating at a distance of one and a half meters is easy, especially if there isn't that click. If there is that click, as was the case with him, at some point you want to make that one and a half meters a bit smaller. ‘But if you kiss someone, you might as well go all the way: in terms of corona infection, it doesn't matter,’ he said. Well, he has a point there. And so I thought then: will this be the new question when you meet someone new?

Because the general belief is still that once you've had corona, you're immune and therefore can't transmit it anymore. So it's really advantageous if you kiss someone who has already had it and has been symptom-free for a while. No longer the question of whether someone has a condom with them. No more questions from men about whether you're on the pill or have an IUD (those guys who think that's more important than a condom, a case apart, better STIs than babies, huh). No, it becomes the question of whether you've had corona already. Mark my words.

So maybe it works better for your sex life if you have not only a condom in your pocket but also a piece of paper with proof of corona with you. With of course a date that is far in the past. Immunity is the key to a good dating life in these corona crisis times. Of course, you have daredevils who don't care at all. The no-condom-but-you're-on-the-pill types. In 2020, that becomes the I-haven't-had-it-yet-but-I'm-symptom-free types. Those ‘living on the edge’ cases who ultimately aren't being very smart.

Especially when clubs, pubs, and restaurants reopen, this will naturally be a question that gets asked somewhere during the first dates. The latest trend among STIs. As far as there were trends, of course...