This is something Laura, 30, is really feeling right now. She was furloughed before the official lockdown began and has been stuck in her London flat since then. “This is my sixth week of isolation. My flatmates all moved in with their boyfriends as soon as quarantine was announced but I’m single and didn’t want to go home, so I’ve been completely alone for most of that time.

“A few weeks ago, I started feeling the urge to message ex boyfriends and flings, just for some attention. But it’s passed that now and I’m so close to wanting to break lockdown, jump in a taxi and visit someone I used to date. It’s everything – the thrill of dressing up and actually putting some makeup on, the human interaction and obviously the sex. I’ll admit it – I’m pretty desperate for sex right now,” she says.

While Jazmin Kopotsha, Stylist’s online deputy editor, may have the companionship of her flatmates but she’s missing something more. “I expected to miss a lot of things over this strange lockdown period, but I didn’t expect sex to be the thing to put me on the edge,” she says.

Lockdown: “how dangerous is breaking quarantine to sleep with someone?”