Ejaculation and sleep

Factual Questions
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I’m wondering what the reason is for almost instant sleep after ejaculation. I googled it and about the best answer I got was: “There is a release of hormones at orgasm that tend to make us feel sleepy or dopey for a while.”

Great. Sounds like the writer has a dwarf fetish. And it doesn’t say what hormones. Or why this should be. Or why men tend to get off and immediately zzzzz-out while women want to snuggle and talk.(Snalk?)

Seems like this tendency would have been dis-advantageous back in our days on the veldt when keeping at least one eye open might keep you from being prey, even if you lived in a tree.

I’m sure there are better googlers than I. DDG, are you there? Or maybe someone has done a study of this. I await answers with a fully erectile brain.

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I have two ideas to account for this, which could both be complete bullshit.

One is that people have evolved stay-put snuggliness after orgasms to promote pair-bonding. This should make you more likely to remember and be in love with the person you just conceived a baby with so that you’ll still be together when the baby is born and give it a better upbringing.

Another is that some adolescents and adults have lots and lots of self-induced orgasms in bed while waiting to fall asleep, so some people just get psychologically conditioned to fall asleep after they get off.

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CecilLink: Why do men feel sleepy after sex?

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I’d imagine it’s because of several combined factors:

  1. You just did something athletic.
  2. Generally, you just did it late at night.
  3. It does cause you to feel to very relaxed.

Of course I’ve felt this “phenomenon” too, but always at night. If it’s a morning thing, I don’t feel tired at all afterwards.

So I chalk it up mostly to the late hour.

5

dtilque:

Thanks for the link, although even Cecil admits he doesn’t know much about it.

Still waiting for some sort of “expert” to show up.

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You’re waiting for someone who knows more than Cecil? :eek: Heresy!

7

My wife says its for male survival. We’re too cute to kill when we’re asleep.

8

Am I the only one who misread the thread title as “Ejaculation and sheep”? :eek:

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Yes, this has been asked before & yes, Cecil seems to have forgot to add this.

Orgasm creates endorphins in the brain which makes you sleepy…ah, sure,
let webster’s define that for you:
: any of a group of proteins with potent analgesic properties that occur naturally in the brain

ever see a book, The man with no endorphins? what a hoot :slight_smile:

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No, Scarlett, that’s what I saw, too!

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Eve:

You just used that as an excuse to get into my thread, you sly vixen.If you want to know about ejaculation,sleep and sheep, you should ask Scylla. You and Scarlett should be ashamed of your bestial predilections.

handy:

Your name sounds familiar. Haven’t I seen you around here somewhere? Everywhere?

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Funniest quote of the day…PERIOD. :smiley:

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Oh, the hell with it. I’m just gonna go m-a-a-a-asturbate. I’m going to count Eves,ah, make that sheep, at the same time. I’ll get to sleep by hook or by (shepherds) crook!

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“I’m going to count Eves,ah, make that sheep . . .”

—Do I have to go “baaaa” and jump over a fence?

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heh heh heh :cool:

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Eve:

Well, you have to jump over something. I’d be flattered if you called it a fence. It’s the wrong month to call it a May pole.

I’d rather you didn’t say baaa. How about “I’m coming in for a landing, big boy!”

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I just read Cecil’s link, and I’m struck by something. The 1985 Quebec study admitted that it was open to criticism, and Cecil promptly pointed out the study’s biggest criticism: that the subjects studied had metal rods shoved up their asses.

However, 1985 was seventeen years ago. Surely somebody since then has thought “maybe we can do a similar study without poking electrodes up the subjects’ asses.”

If anyone reading this thread is a research scientist, I see a chance for you to publish a paper here…