Just so we’re very, very clear, this has nothing to do with inappropriate sexual encounters. Nope. Nothing:
A new study has found a third of women suffer from post-sex blues — and it’s not because they regret bedding the partner beside them.Researchers at Queensland University of Technology in Australia followed more than 200 young women and found 32.9% suffered negative feelings — or postcoital dysphoria — after “otherwise satisfactory intercourse.”
I’m going to take a stab at the “symptoms” of “postcoital dysphoria.” Ten bucks says it sounds something like this: “I can’t believe he hasn’t called.” “He doesn’t love me.” “I don’t love him, why did I do that?” “Was I used?” “Why hasn’t he called/emailed/texted/responded to my calls/emails/texts?” “Could I be pregnant?” “I hope I’m not pregnant.” “What if I’m pregnant?” Followed up by “Why hasn’t he called?”
It’s called being a woman. Dysphoric, indeed. So keep searching, science, for the ever elusive answer to this new “medical condition.”
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Very interesting. Do you have a link?
That ‘resolution phase’ is actually a defined biological period. It lasts minutes to hours, so your gleeful speculation is completly wrong. You’re thinking in the wrong time period. The ‘why doesn’t he call me’ anxiety doesn’t come until the next day, some time after the duration the study is concerned with.
But as usual, you can’t resist jumping in without thinking at the chance to gloat about how those liberal scientist types have gotten it all wrong again.
Suzanne: no sorry, but I’ll look.
Suricou: I stand corrected. The neurotic anxiety accompanying inappropriate sexual encounters only starts the next day and therefore marks a wholly different trend. Foolish me.
A point Suricou is trying to make is that there is a’ resolution stage’ that has a 32.9% incidence of ‘negative feelings’ or ‘postcoital dysphoria’ that is found in the first 24 hours of postcoital and that there is a separate phenomena of the post 24 hour postcoital ‘why doesn’t he call me’ anxiety. Thus there is a continuum of negative feelings. This is significant and may have everything to do with ‘bonding’, an area of research that is turning out biochemical ‘evidence’, that is experienced by women through sexual intercourse. Be that as it may, Siricou is pointing out there is research that shows there is a myriad of ‘negative feelings’ experienced by women after sexual intercourse regardless of how long afterwards. One would think that one would look into the explanation for this and not dismiss the parameter of ‘attitude’ to or ‘relationship’ with one’s partner nor dismiss a reference to ‘inappropriate sexual encounters’ because it is offered by someone who is perceived to ‘gloat’ about ‘liberal scientist types’. It may actually be the case that the ‘negative feelings’ have everything to do with ‘inappropriate sexual encounters’.
1) presumably a large number, perhaps most, of the study women were married or in a long term relationship.
Anecdotally, as a happily married woman I experience this often but only after orgasm. I suspect it is an unfortunate biological variation having to do with the proximity of sexual & anger systems in the brain.