Students are seeking counselling as they claim that coronavirus has robbed them of the chance to lose their virginity.
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Counsellors say that university students in their late teens and early 20s are suffering from anxiety because restrictions brought in to combat COVID-19 have kept them celibate.
People aged between 18 and 24 reported the biggest decline in sex during the first year of the pandemic, the National Survey Of Sexual Attitudes has found.
Professor Kirstin Mitchell, a survey investigator from Glasgow University, said: "We found that after one year of the pandemic people reported fewer partners, fewer new partners and less frequent sex. This was especially the case for young people.
"In any given year there are a cohort of young people who would have started having sex in that year. When you're in midlife one year can look much like the next.
"But when you're a young person each year brings key developmental experiences. And so there is that cohort of young people for whom that period of sexual development and gaining new sexual experiences is a lost year.
"What effect that will have in the longer term we just don't know.’’