# Post sex laughter
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 28, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416 "2001-06-28T03:31:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/1 "2001-06-28T03:31:36Z")
No, I don’t mean pointing and sniggering, either.
I have noticed that after making love, I tend to get the Satisfied Woman Giggles[sup]TM[/sup], in which the silliest things will make me laugh like a maniac. So, fellow dopers, **am** I a maniac, or do you do this, too?
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/2 "2001-06-28T03:43:14Z")
Well, I can’t claim to ever have had the Satisfied Woman Giggles [sup]TM[/sup] – the thing I’d be giggling at was the fact I had a penis, in that case. 😉
However, I’m familiar with the syndrome you’re talking about. I’ve seen it happen in women, and I’ve had similar things happen to me (I guess those would be the Satisfied Man Giggles [sup]TM[/sup], yes?) so I suppose it’s not terribly uncommon – at least among the erotically skilled.
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### Author:  [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/3 "2001-06-28T09:40:18Z")
I’ve had that too! I think it’s like laughing when you get off a roller coaster–it’s not because it’s funny, but just because it’s so much \* fun\*. Just a guess.
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/4 "2001-06-28T10:18:24Z")
I sometimes get mad teeth chattering after a big orgasm.
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### Author:  [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/5 "2001-06-28T13:55:57Z")
Brynda, you’re not a maniac. Nothing better than a bout of laughter while on an endorphine high 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/6 "2001-06-28T20:47:17Z")
Well, I guess I’ve experienced the down side.
First girl I ever had sex with laughed _while_ she was coming. For your very first time to end with an outburst of laughter is, to say the least, HIGHLY disconcerting. I hate to admit, but since I was sexually inexperienced and mentally immature, I didn’t react well. Got pretty angry, actually. Plus, it was her first time, too, not to mention the fact that she was fairly repressed and not able to talk comfortably about sex, so she wasn’t able to reassure me that she wasn’t laughing at me.
It’s alright, though. Later, fate made up for it by sending me a girl who got VERY energetic after sex. Passionate energy and intensity of feeling, the kind that let me first hear the words _“Let’s go again”_. Guess that’s the ‘endorphine high’ **TM** mentioned. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/7 "2001-06-28T21:12:01Z")
Not only do I experience this, but my husband and I have a running joke about it, since the laugh is invariably followed by, “shit - hand me a Kleenex!”
Or was that TMI? 😉
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### Author:  [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/8 "2001-06-28T21:16:04Z")
Mostly pre sex laughter, here. ☹😉
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### Author:  [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/9 "2001-06-28T21:23:12Z")
I frequently laugh during and after sex (I’m multi-orgasmic), and I will now officially incorporate Satisfied Woman Giggles ™ into my vocabulary.
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### Author:  [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/10 "2001-06-29T03:02:52Z")
I do this, for the reason expressed so economically by **MrO**. I’ve never been with a woman who did it, though, and at least one of my partners was offended; she thought I was laughing at her.
It’s good to see I’m more normal than I thought I was.
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### Author:  [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/11 "2001-06-29T03:07:17Z")
This is me: He He BOOM(the sound of my head hitting the pillow.)
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### Author:  [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/12 "2001-06-29T04:25:23Z")
Same here…not so much laughter as much as I get the giggles about everything. The better the sex, the more giggly I get.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/13 "2001-06-29T04:28:44Z")
Guilty, big-time. Have _freaked out_ some of my partners, which, of course, makes me laugh all that harder. Some join in, some think something’s wrong, some get mad… It usually embarasses me, but damn, it’s fun. 😃
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/14 "2001-06-29T05:06:31Z")
It’s only natural to laugh when you’re having fun, I just end up grinning, usually for a long while afterwards and occassional little giggles when I think back to it.
Kitty
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### Author:  [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-sex-laughter/70416/15 "2001-06-29T06:53:55Z")
Giggling is one of my responses to high energy or anxiety, wherever it may come from.
I’ve gotten better at it, at some previous points, it would actually escalate from giggles into -very- audible laughter. You have no idea of some of the strange looks I’d get after sex, or while getting blood tests or performing dissections in the Bio-Lab. 🙂