Posted on 07/28/2018 12:51:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Having sex may feel like a badge of honor for many men, but for others, it’s an act that, once finished, brings about intense feelings of sadness. Researchers for the first time ever have identified that women aren’t the only ones who can suffer from this emotional tidal wave in the bedroom, better known as postcoital dysphoria, or PCD. PCD occurs when a person has enjoyable consensual sex with a partner, but is met with “inexplicable feelings of tearfulness, sadness, or irritability” afterwards.
...men can and do suffer from PCD which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex.
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology say PCD had only previously been recognized in women, but after a survey of 1,208 men from numerous countries — including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia — it’s clear that the condition is more common among males than one might expect. In fact, four in 10 participants recalled suffering from PCD symptoms at some point in their lives.
“41% of participants reported experiencing PCD in their lifetime with 20 percent reporting they had experienced it in the previous four weeks,” said Maczkowiack, a masters student at the university’s school of psychology.
As many as 4 percent of the individuals, who voluntarily participated in the online questionnaire via postings on social media and psychological research websites, said they battle PCD symptoms regularly. Men acknowledged that statements such as “I don’t want to be touched and want to be left alone,” or “I feel unsatisfied, annoyed and very fidgety. All I really want is to leave and distract myself from everything I participated in,” applied to them when thinking about times they’d made love. Others described feeling “emotionless and empty” even though the sex was otherwise satisfactory.
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Der Schleazemeister has done a lot of teachin’
LOL!
Maybe they only surveyed homosexuals who realized how dirty their act was.
My generation just had a cigarette after sex——worked for us.:-)
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Maybe now that he and I have reached a certain age, it’s like, will this be the last time, (I can’t believe I just posted this”.)
Now with a recent hip replacement and two dislocations in the last 3 weeks, it might be a long time.
I can explain the sadness. The realization that you spent $ 50 on something other than guns.
CC
Not saying a word........
Nope.
L
“It is because for a brief moment I am no longer hitting it..”
Do what Mrs. L and I do.
Make a grubbing sandwich.
Share that sandwich.
Then hit it again.
Harder.
Best,
L
I do not avoid women,Mandrake; but I do deny them my essence...
I have the opposite condition: PCE or Postcoital Euphoria. I feel GREAT after sex and so does my GF (who's 10 years younger than me, I might add. :-)
PTSDPCSD
Post Coitus Sadness Disorder
May your best day be your worst.
The only sadness I have is that the years when I invented sex are a distant memory. My best invention ever!
“I know I get to feeling that way. Like, “Yeah, that was great but this chicken is going to be on the dinner plate someday.” Can’t let it bring you down...”
Either really funny, or really sick.
Yeah, you should hear what she really said about you!
I know some husbands feel like the wife didn’t really want it, so it wasn’t joyous for both, and he also feels it will be weeks of hinting and longing til he gets it again. That’s sad.
Also sad when some dude wakes up in coyote situation in an old motel and she’s still there and all his cocaine is gone. ;)
Bill Clinton always cried after having sex. I think it was the pepper spray.
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