What affect does intercourse have on the digestive system of humans? I’ve heard that that the stomach blushes. So do people who are deeply in love having sex cause any changes in digestion? What about sex after a large meal?
What about people who aren’t deeply in love? Hmm?
um, what?
Huh. It’s true.
What this has to do with sex is beyond me. Stomach Blushes wouldn’t make a bad band name, though. They could do a double bill with the Gin Blossoms.
When people fall in love, they rather notoriously have changes in appetite for food. But I think that has more to do with biochemicals affecting the brain than blood flow to the intestines.
one would hope a couple in love is neither embarrassed by or experiencing a severe flight or fight response during their sexual encounters.
as to the original question about digestion and sex, I quote Dan Savage: “Fuck first”
I suppose increased blood flow to the stomach might improve the efficiency of digestion in the stomach - the rate of secretion of enzymes and acid might increase, which would make for quicker breakdown of food in the stomach. But surely the effect would be transient? Blushes fade very quickly. And if I recall correctly the stomach doesn’t absorb any food; it just breaks it down so that it can be more easily absorbed when it passes into the lower intestine. So the effects on absorbtion of food would be pretty minor, I would think.
Other things apart from orgasm cause you to blush. Do you find that acute embarrassment improves your digestion? No? Well, then, I wouldn’t expect too much improvement from orgasm either.
why would sex and orgasms cause you to blush?
They’ve debunked swimming after eating but I don’t think many kids have sex after eating. :rolleyes:
You need to, ahem, see a wider variety of people. About two-thirds of women, and about a quarter of men, become signficantly flushed when they orgasm.
Surely that’s the whole point of taking someone out to dinner?
I’ll drink to that.
Being flushed after orgasm is not physiologically related to blushing.
But it’s what cjackson is talking about in the OP.
Besides, Wikipediatells me that, although “flushing” and “blushing” are generally distinguished, there is a a “close physiological relation between them”. And who am I to argue with Wikipedia?
Is it? I can’t figure out how you know that.
Yes, both involve increased blood flow. The important distinction is that orgasmic flushing is not, AFAIK, caused by adrenaline.
Pity fucks?
Well, my suspicions were first aroused when I read the very start of the OP:
I though “Oh, he’s talking about the sex flush”. I still think that. Do you think he could possibly be talking about something else and, if so, what?
But it’s the increased blood flow, I suggest in post #7, which might possibly have a effect on the efficiency of digestion. (Though I doubt that it does have that effect to any meaningful extent.)
Since stomach blushes are a real thing and sexual flushing is far more evident almost everywhere they exist than the stomach, I think he could be talking about, you know, stomach blushes.
But I’m not going to expend an ounce more effort unless the OP comes back to explain.
exactly. Blushing is related to being stressed, which is not good for digestion. Just offhand, I would expect being relaxed after sex to improve digestion. However, I doubt anyone has actually studied this. Because, well, why?