# Why Do You Get So Tired After Sex?(well at least I do)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 19, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593 "2001-03-19T15:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593/1 "2001-03-19T15:25:47Z")

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I mean what is the deal with this? Me and my wife make love next thing I know I am asleep. And it doesn’t matter if it is at night or not. We do it in the morning and I fall asleep afterwords to.

I mean I can’t go home for quicky at lunch because I know I need at least an extra half hour for a nap afterwords.

I feel bad because I don’t like to go to sleep on my wife right afterwords(you know they like to talk then) but I can’t help it.

What is weird I can’t really even go to sleep anymore at night unless we fool around first. It is like a valium or something.

What’t the scoop on this?

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593/2 "2001-03-19T15:37:47Z")

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Cause it floods your brain with endorphins, the opiate simulators. BTW, you don’t need your wife to get that endorphin rush.

There are people with no endorphins, they post in the PIT.

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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593/3 "2001-03-19T15:43:52Z")

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Oh endorphins.

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> BTW, you don’t need your wife to get that endorphin  
> rush.

Yes I do. I like being married to her.

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**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593/4 "2001-03-19T15:53:38Z")

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy . . . my first Cecil’s addressed this posting on the SDMB. I’m almost beginning to feel like I belong, even though NO ONE has said “welcome to the SDMB, D18” (sigh).

Anyway, check this out . . .

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_183.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_183.html)

All the best.

D18

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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-get-so-tired-after-sex-well-at-least-i-do/58593/5 "2001-03-19T16:02:13Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB D18. Have fun posting here and I hope you never end up in the pit(take this from someone that knows). Sometimes it gets a bit hot in there.