Sex and Dating During the Pandemic

Everybody knows that the plague is coming

Everybody knows that it’s moving fast

Everybody knows that a naked man and woman

Are just a shining artifact of the past

Leonard Cohen’s gravelly baritone is distorted as it filters through the speakers of the very beat-up car. It’s a December night in Brooklyn and my date, L., is driving me home. I am on the aux.

“I…