Covid’s long-term side effects can ruin your love life, as the loss of taste and smell is associated with a decrease in sexual desire, warns a leading psychologist
- Covid sufferers may need marriage counseling in the future, says the psychologist
- Dr Robert King said loss of smell, a symptom of Covid, could ruin a relationship
- He said studies show that if a woman’s sense of smell changes, it can change her attractiveness.
- His research found that women attracted to their partner’s scent have a better orgasm
Covid sufferers may need sexual therapy or marriage counseling in the future if the virus damages their sense of smell, a leading psychologist has warned.
Loss of sense of smell and taste is a common symptom of coronavirus. This is sometimes temporary, but other sufferers report long-term problems.
Dr Robert King said that smell is so important to the power of attraction that losing it – or changing it – due to a coronavirus can ruin a relationship.
He warned that women may be most affected.
Dr Robert King warns that Covid sufferers may need sexual therapy or marriage counseling in the future if the virus damages their sense of smell (image)
He added that previous studies have shown that if a woman’s sense of smell is changed by factors such as birth control pills, it can “drastically change” her attraction to her partner.
Dr. King’s own study found that women who described their partner’s scent as attractive had a more intense orgasm.
An expert from the University College Cork in Ireland said his study showed that a partner’s aromatic odor predicted “energetic, deeply felt and energetic orgasmic reactions” better than all other characteristics.
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Other studies show that women have more cells in the area of the brain that are sensitive to odor than men.
Dr King said women were likely to have developed these extra brain cells to pick up signals that would help them find a biocompatible partner so they could give birth to healthy babies.
He added: “Although it is disputed what exactly is signaled by the partner’s odor, it is not disputed that the odor is important, especially for women whose extra sensitivity to odor and 40 percent extra density of … [in this area] probably doing something important.
“Therefore, the effects of Covid are likely to be noticed by sex therapists, marriage counselors and the like in the coming months and years,” he wrote in a letter to the scientific journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Some scientists believe that a person’s natural odor transmits information about his immune system.
It is believed that we prefer the smell of a potential partner whose immune genes are different enough from ours to be able to give birth to a healthy baby.
Women may have developed greater sensitivity in this area because their “reproductive investment – a nine-month pregnancy – is longer than men’s.”
If a woman’s child dies, she will be less likely to continue to reproduce and so she will not pass on her genes.
Dr. King said, “So, [natural] the selection rewarded particularly picky women.
In a 2021 Italian study, a 29-year-old woman with Covid-related odor loss told researchers: “Without any evidence of odor and this strange, bitter taste when we kiss, my boyfriend has become completely unknown to me. My sexual desire is gone … I left him.
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