Your face would also turn red with embarrassment at the mention of physical intimacy. This topic is such that we do not talk about it openly. Not only this, but many people have incomplete knowledge about physical intimacy. At the same time, many people do not want to know about it and hence there are many misconceptions about it.
You must have noticed that your partner or you often feel sleepy when it comes to having a sexual relationship. Do you know why this happens or is it right for you to sleep after having sex? After making a physical relationship, many types of chemicals are released into our bodies.
Due to the release of hormones like dopamine and adrenaline, you start feeling happy and the body starts coming into a state of complete relaxation. Due to sexual and other types of physical intimacy, fatigue starts and the time taken to sleep is less.
This change happens in a woman's body after making a physical relation
A study conducted by the Journal of Women's Health states that estrogen levels increase immediately after physical intimacy. Estrogen helps the body use serotonin and other neurochemicals that aid in sleep.
Is it right to sleep after having a physical relationship?
Yes of course! During this, oxytocin hormone is also released, which controls your stress hormone. Cortisol is called the stress hormone. The pituitary gland in our brain controls cortisol production. Cortisol plays an important role in the stress response. Having the right balance of cortisol is very important for our health.
A study published in PsychoneuroEndocrinology found that in many ways, oxytocin and cortisol act as 'yin-yang' hormones, balancing each other out. Simply put, as oxytocin levels increase in your body, stress cortisol levels decrease.
The reduction of stress has positive effects on the body and hence when this hormone is released after making a physical relation, the stress is reduced and you start feeling sleepy. That's why if you fall asleep quickly during sex, then there is nothing to worry about.
However, after physical intimacy, few women fall asleep quickly. They are often interested in cuddling and talking after this.
Why do men fall asleep quickly after having a physical relationship?
Levels of prolactin, the hormone that regulates the erogenous period in men and makes you feel sleepy after sex, increase after orgasm.
Prolactin is a hormone that regulates the refractory period in men. At the same time, orgasm fills the body and brain with the release of various hormones like norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin and nitric oxide. So many good hormones create a feeling of satisfaction in you. Due to these feel-good hormones and neurochemicals, you feel calm and you slowly start falling asleep.
Another reason why men feel sleepy after being physical is that during that time the activity depletes the glycogen that produces energy in the muscles. Women have fewer muscles than men, so they don't feel as lethargic after sex as men do when they fall asleep.
Other reasons for falling asleep after physical
Apart from the release of hormones, there is another reason that makes us sleepy. Most of people like to make physical relations in the dark or by turning off the lights. Due to darkness, the body starts receiving signals. The body senses that it is time to sleep and many times the hormone melatonin starts stimulating the sleep cycle. Due to this you miss your snoozing time and fall asleep.
Hope you understand from this information that after all we start sleeping after having sexual relations and sleeping after that is not wrong either.
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