# Side Effects of Sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 18, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352 "2000-01-18T15:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/1 "2000-01-18T15:12:00Z")
Aside from the obvious effects of sex - pleasure and reproduction - what are the other side effects? We’ve all heard the cliches of how sex cures acne, sex will make a grumpy person have a better mood, and how guys gotta have it or they’ll suffer. What’s fact and what’s fiction? Does it truly matter whether it’s a solo session or an anonymous partner or one’s true love? * * * **WECOLME TO THE NEW MILLENIUM!** , now go home.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/2 "2000-01-18T15:23:00Z")
Well, there are all those nasty STD’s. This probably isn’t what you had in mind, but there it is. * * * That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. – Phædrus – ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/3 "2000-01-18T15:27:00Z")
And napping, of course. Particularly on lazy Sunday afternoons. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/4 "2000-01-18T15:35:00Z")
Rug burns, penis burns (after a 5x session), sneezing (sometimes), leg cramps, and thirst. * * * I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/5 "2000-01-18T15:38:00Z")
Sometimes the handcuffs chafe. * * * Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/6 "2000-01-18T16:00:00Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/004831.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/004831.html) contained a good side effect of sex, reduced irratiblity in women * * * John Larrigan “82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/7 "2000-01-18T16:00:00Z")
The desire for a tobacco product soon afterwards. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/8 "2000-01-18T16:10:00Z")
Yet another topic headed for MPSIMS. Additionally, in Satan’s previous incarnation, the sex acts would have been discussed liberally on this message board. Sorry pal, I had to say it. Can’t let that wiseacre quotient from dropping too far. * * * That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. – Phædrus – ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/9 "2000-01-18T17:43:00Z")
I find that it makes the sides of my tongue raw and abraded. 😃 * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/10 "2000-01-18T17:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by manhattan: > \*\*Sometimes the handcuffs chafe. > > \*\* That’s why the silk scarves are better. 😉 -Melin ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/11 "2000-01-19T01:18:00Z")
And the strand of pearls. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/12 "2000-01-19T01:20:00Z")
Yeah. But leather shrinks when it dries. 🙂 Cartooniverse * * * If you want to kiss the sky, you’d better learn how to kneel. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/13 "2000-01-19T02:30:00Z")
Ha Ha Ha 😛 Don’t forget sore knees. :eek I was hoping for more clinical type answers. * * * **WECOLME TO THE NEW MILLENIUM!** , now go home. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/14 "2000-01-19T02:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by fogmage: > \*\*Ha Ha Ha 😛 Don’t forget sore knees. :eek > > I was hoping for more clinical type answers. > > \*\* OK. Increased circulation, muscle activity, hormonal activity, sweat output. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/15 "2000-01-19T02:43:00Z")
Let’s see…scroll, scroll…OK, we _are_ in GQ, not gossipville next door. If you let a drunken woman handcuff you to a bed and she doesn’t undo’em before you both zonk out, you’re liable to (I suppose it could be worse) have a numb finger or two and sore wrists for a week. No fun; besides it ain’t that big a thrill anyway. And I suppose, in certain scenarios, gunshot wounds are possible. Seriously, I, er, have a friend who, for a couple of years, regularly experienced a strong cramp in the left foot upon orgasm. No obvious psychological underpinnings, and it eventually went away. I finally decided it was just some freak neural circuit that developed and then, somehow, got severed. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/16 "2000-01-19T03:09:00Z")
beatle, have a woman handcuff you to the bed & she has a heart attack, I guess you’d kinda be stuck. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/17 "2000-01-19T03:12:00Z")
What is sex? * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N_oR_jVIaL)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/18 "2000-01-19T03:50:00Z")
When I have sex more than five or six times in a row, it tends to make me a little dizzy. … and I think it makes your nose get real long as well, because I don’t know what else could be causing this. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/19 "2000-01-19T06:50:00Z")
I have found that the more often I have sex, the less often I have to shave my palms. * * * Virtually yours, DrMatrix ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352/20 "2000-01-19T07:12:00Z")
Handy, FYI : what you posted is the subject of Stephen King book “Geralds Game”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/side-effects-of-sex/6352.md?page=2)