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QUEENSLAND, Australia — 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. In a new study, 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 post coital dysphoria, or PCD.
PCD occurs when a person has, for all intents and purposes, enjoyable consensual sex with a partner, but is met with “inexplicable feelings of tearfulness, sadness, or irritability” afterwards.
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.
“Forty-one percent of the participants reported experiencing PCD in their lifetime with 20 percent reporting they had experienced it in the previous four weeks,” says co-author Joel Maczkowiack, a masters student at the university’s school of psychology, in a release.
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.
“It is commonly believed that males and females experience a range of positive emotions including contentment and relaxation immediately following consensual sexual activity,” says co-author Robert Schweitzer, a professor at the university.
Schweitzer says that research has shown that couples that continue engaging in acts of intimacy after sex, such as talking, kissing, or cuddling, feel more satisfied in their relationships and strengthen the bond they share. Conversely, the emotional rollercoaster that comes with PCD could magnify any conflict in a relationship and wind up causing a bond between two people to break even further.
“The first three phases of the human sexual response cycle – excitement, plateau, and orgasm – have been the focus of the majority of research to date,” Professor Schweitzer said. “Yet previous studies on the PCD experience of females showed that a similar proportion of females had experienced PCD on a regular basis. As with the men in this new study, it is not well understood. We would speculate that the reasons are multifactorial, including both biological and psychological factors.”
The authors say the findings show sexual experiences for men could be more diverse than believed, and are important for clinicians to consider when working with men who may experience such symptoms.
The full study was published July 24, 2018 in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy.
Those four men would be sad after ANYTHING.
I admit, it happened to me once. The alcohol wore off, I looked to my right, saw what I had slept with, and immediately wanted to cry.
My uncle said that is why he quit drinking.
And this is why DIY is such big business.
A wise old philosophy professor of mine once told me that all men feel sadness after sex…When asked why…He said because they soon turn to wondering…Is that all there is to this life? Is there nothing more? Is that it?
The only true joy…And wonder….And beauty….Comes from knowing God…Far superior to any earthly pleasure….Like I said….Wise man…
That 4 in 10 did not use protection and are worried about 20+ years of paying for a kid they will never see or get to know.
Probably indicative of the relationship between partners outside of the sex. Maybe I missed it but it doesn’t say if these participants are single, married, BF and GF living together, one night stands, etc.
If you are sad after sex you did not do it right.
LOL this needs to be the top comment. Short, precise, and hits the point directly.
It takes two to tango. Might be a problem of a partner that doesn’t know how to dance.
who cares , nut it and leave……..
My sentiments exactly.
It was such a chore just getting her to shut up and take her clothes off. Like she’s really worth putting any extra effort in…. For what?
Like that old Polish joke? Two guys talking about performing oral sex on their wives…One guys says, man…Everytime I try to eat out my wife… it tastes like chitt….
The other guy says: Sounds like you take too big a bite.
69 seconds is not doing it right.
Or you misunderstood when she said she likes an-al sex.
Was this inane study at least partially funded by our wonderful Federal government?
Better than the one with the shrimp on a treadmill I guess.
Taxpayers, not Feds. Feds produce no income.
Once again showing why the discipline of psychology is basically worthless. They are trying to quantify scientifically what cannot be. They are using people’s answers on a highly personal test, which any psychologist knows varies depending on mood, sometimes drastically.
Oh wow cool scientific sounding word “post-coital dysphoria”, even has a cool acronym. Psychology as a science is a joke.
Call it a syndrome and sell people drugs to combat it, the SOP for the pharmaceutical companies these days.
Last I heard…Psychologists have one of the highest suicide rates of all the professions….Right up there with cops…That is soo revealing.
Even they don’t believe their BS.
I think most of them get into the field to deal with their own issues. Lawyers have a high suicide rate also.
Lawyers deserve it…They have it coming to them!
Nail on the head!!
Mouth or vagina works much better.
Yeah, they should just give up
Postcoital dysphoria? When I was young they called it the coyote syndrome. A coyote will chew off an arm or leg to escape a trap. That, or just leaving the scene of the crime.
She was so much more interesting to listen to when I was horny.
LOL
women cant believe that men, at best , listen 25 % of the time and ‘ hear ‘about ‘ 10% of the drivel that just w o n t stop dumping out of her mouth……..sexbots are gonna be so cool and QUIET
How many times can I say just shut the f up in my head before I explode?
The 4 in 10 realize that she isn’t leaving ….thats enough to make any man sad.
These days, 4 of the 10 pine for their boyfriend
lol.
YOU WIN!!!!
4 in 10 men do it coyote style. When you sleep with ugly women of course you are going to feel so sad afterwards that you would rather chew your arm off than wake her up.
The “slump breaker” syndrome.
Ugly chicks try harder…enthusiasm has a quality all its own!
Well, there is that.
They are all ugly after sex.
Not when they have one tooth?
No teeth is better.
Teeth is the inviable line thou shalt not cross.
Bad dentition is a deal breaker. No future taunting disease.
maybe it’s better if they have no teeth at all!
I read once that the ideal woman is 3 feet tall, has no teeth and the top of her head is flat so you can set your beer down.
Shit I don’t need them to try. Just lay on your back and take what I’m giving you
And they’re sad because homo sex is fake sex.
Gay marriage is equal opportunity, the opportunity to learn just like the rest of us men, the horrors of marriage.
TRUE!
HA! HA! HA!
4 out of 10 men realize that the time and effort to get her to bed was not worth it….BAD sex
And that they may have to chew their arm off.
“Bad” sex, what’s that??
Where she claims rape 3 wks later, sexual assauilt, sexual battery………. sex without her explicit saying YES 35 times while banging…………….your life gets ruined, you lose your job………………hows that for how things seem to be ‘ bad sex’ today
Or, as #metoo has shown us, 35 years later.
Unless your name is Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, then you get away with murder forever.
well, there is that. “your honor, i took him into my place, pulled his pants down, made him finger bang me and eat me out, and then climbed on top of him, at which point he raped me!”
GUILTY!
OMG…. we men are doomed!
Not if you’re a handyman!
Nah robot chic are going to be more affordable so men wont have to worry about a prison sentence because a womans inbalance starts to take over and she regretes her decision so in order to make herself feel better she gets the man locked up for 20 years. There sweetie problem solved now you can go about your life because that bad man who had
$## with you is gone. I say bring on the robot girls.
Only because we’re unable to leave adolescence.
Does happen! Kind of surprising when you are accused of rape. “Why did you come with me?”
I never thought Mike Tyson was guilty of anything. That whore when to his room at two in the morning, expecting what? Go home, bitch.
Yes, Yes, Yes, Oh yes! etc…Is that what you mean?
Yeah you will see in the future where documents have to be signed IDs have to be photocopied and a fingerprint submitted before sex. Just a CYA issue.
Already covered in a Chappelle’s Show skit.
bring on the SexBots
yep ……some have to just learn the hard way
Any sex with a Liberal woman. Any more questions?
I’ve been to Liberal, Kansas several times and haven’t gotten lucky there. When I do, I’ll get back with you.
I would rather chew aluminum foil or pull my own teeth with wire cutters than touch a liberal woman…YUCK
Yep, notice when you see a photo of lib women at a “rally”, none are good looking, mostly ugly and butch looking!.
Probably you will get a Lesbo
wait a second, banging a wild, emotional liberal woman can be a lot of fun…until the crazy biatch goes all “bunny boiler” on ya!
Yeah, but they save all the screaming for their idiotic protests.
I enjoy ‘rodeo sex’ with liberal women. Mount from the back, hold on to their hair and say, “Your sister’s ass isn’t this big”. Now, try to hold on for 8 seconds.
It’s called “female”.
You obviously have not been married.
uh, marriage is called NO sex, not bad sex!
Not true Voice, you get sex for at least 5 months.
I get sex whenever I want and I’ve been married for 8 years. Granted we dont do it every day but once you make their leg shake, you own them and can do with her as you please lol
…’bad sex’??…..that’s sex with my ex-wife
It is the first thing a wife does after marriage, to make her husband feel great, and the least thing, too.
My Doctor liked to quote his grandfather, to wit: “There is nothing as over-rated as a Bad Ph*** nor so under-rated as a Good $hyte.”
When the woman won’t leave afterwards…thats bad sex.
“Bad” sex, what’s that??
Clearly, you’ve never dated my ex-wife.
Cinemax
Radical fems don’t have a clue what good sex is. Always thinking how to overpower a man. Radical Fems destroyed honest sex.
They don’t do it for fun. It’s for political reasons only.
Exactly. No man is upset after having sex because of the sex. They are upset when they factor in the time, effort and money they invested to get that sex. They have buyer’s remorse.
LOL… So true.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. “Buyers Remorse”. You must be MGTOW
And that now she’ll want to talk, about feelings and stuff, when he just wants to go to sleep.
Yes. You pay a whore to shut up and go away. And she does.
Sure, you’re right, but only when you treat a woman as an object to satisfying your addictions and numbing your pains.
Fat and/or ugly women need physical contact too. Just be nice to them and they will be nice to you.
Numbing our pains?? That’s what the lord gave us whiskey for.
yea, if your lord is Johnny Walker
Or if he resides in New Amsterdam. (This Hairy Guy swears that Devil’s Water is just too damn smooth!)
Blasphemy. Jim Beam is Lord. (Knob Creek, Basil Hayden, Bakers & Bookers).
Finally, a woman has joined the comments.
Women just disappear after they’ve drained you.
Huh? Besides cleaning the house, doing the dishes and fixing meals…..what other purpose do they serve? Just sign me, ‘Woke’ (HUMOR, ladies. Relax)
4 in 10 realize that the morbidly obese sow they just mounted is the best they’ll ever do until the day they die…
Maybe it is better, after all, to be seen riding a Jap bike.
Sure thing buddy, bring your Hardly Ableson to the road race track.
‘Least she won’t break down on you, eh?
They should’ve stopped hittin’ on those poor scooter whales at Wal-Mart.
Lot’s of choice there.
Any port in a storm big fella…
There’s a piece in every crease!
The other six are with someone other than their spouse.
The four married ones have their sex alone in the shower.
Singing, “You Are Never On My Mind”>
Mercy sakes yes.
Lol, that cracked me up.
The flicking you get is never worth the flicking you get. Seriously.
Or when you realize how much that piece of a$$ just cost you.
I was about to type the same bloody thing!
It would be interesting to know how many of this 40% are circumcised. Feeling only half of what you are supposed to could be a big factor.
As a circumcised man, I can say that isn’t the problem. Pu$$e is great. It’s having a woman to deal with afterwards that kills the mood, especially in this day and age. Masculinity is constantly under attack by feminists and the media, not to mention colleges these days.
Dumb. Haven’t you heard “parting is such sweet sorrow”? Read, my friends, read!
Vaginosis gets you every time Peeeeeuuuuuu
You had to work so hard to get it, once gotten, you realize it wasn’t all that good and it was just a waste of time and effort!
The effort is much greater than the reward. Every woman thinks they’re great in bed. Few actually are. Even worse, the best sex is usually the crazy ones!!
If you have to work so hard to get it, you’re not doing it right m8.
How much work is required is directly related to the attractiveness of the image in the mirror.
I’ll bet that most of the problem is because the man isn’t married to the woman. There’s a sense of pointlessness then.
Or the man has been married to the woman for a few years and, as women like to say, the honeymoon is over the woman treats sex like a chore. The serious downside of marriage.
No, the downside is she is no longer hot after 35 or so. It’s just not exciting. It’s a chore for the man, actually.
Well, that’s my problem anyway.
Why was the bride smiling at the wedding? She knew she had given her last blowjob.
50% cheat. Why bother? Avoid Oral Cancer risk.
In other news, 10 out of 10 men experience “inexplicable feelings of tearfulness, sadness, or irritability” when they don’t have sex.
Yea, ’cause no telling how long it’s gonna be before she’s in the mood again.
You need to apply for a grant, professor!
That’s when you take it anyway. She’ll decide halfway through she’s in the mood again.
there is more poon coming by in 15 minutes, never let a woman dictate terms……….never.
postcoital dysphoria (PCD)? WTF? Real men roll over and hit it again.
No, a real man has morals. A man without morals is no better than a dog.
Spoken like a cat., if cats were smart as dogs and COULD speak.
cats are smarter than dogs. cats roam freely throughout the house and neighbor hood. dogs live in a cage and roll in poop.
Dr. Laura had some points.
Says the “barn cat”, which has no loyalty. A good dog is loyal.
Loyal my a**. Dogs are stupid. You feed ’em, sure they’re going to wag their tail and lick your face. Not worth the expense, the walking, the washing, the cleaning up the poo, the cleaning up the hair, the cleaning up of the vomit in the car, the getting rid of the smell, the paying of the vet bills, boarding them when you’re on vacation, replacing the furniture they chewed up…. cripes, they’re worse than KIDS.
…but not worse than my wife.
I can still see that glass of milk flying at my face…
Yeah, at least your wife can feed herself! 😉
no doubt some dogs are disasters. still better than cats, which do not care whether you live or die and bring parasites into your house with their filthy kitty litter.
Welp, you just proved that your handle is an ironic one. Why yes, folks are dropping dead left and right over cat borne parasites.
that, and all the rumors about cats that are just stupid lore
like they suffocate babies and will eat a dead owner
no one can come up with cases of either
I like cats and dogs equally and there are loyal and not so loyal ones of each equally
It’s called toxoplasma gondi
Look it up
BFD! There are all kinds of stuff on your hands and shoes as well. The fact that it exists does not mean its problem. Again, there is no reason whatsoever to your voice.
BTW, I dont let my dogs or my cats shit in the house.
Spoken like someone who has never been divorce raped financially…. women have no morals, honesty, loyalty…………
We have the banker$, C0nGre$$m3n, and lawyer$ in general to blame for that!
Why do you hate dogs?
Understanding the realties does not equal hate.
I am sure you are the type of guy who would never hit a woman even if she hit you first. But, then you would argue that women are equal to men and can do anything a man can do. I know your type. You are the reason the MGTOW movement started.
I agree with some MGTOW but can’t get around “Just use them and dump them.”
Annual visits to Eastern Europe or SE Asia solve a lot of problems.
Clears the mind, makes you remember and appreciate manhood.
Or it’s just really lame sex. Some women will just lay there.
That’s when you say, “Yes, Jane.” When her name is really Donna.
And later on when she claims that she was faking it thank her for doing so.
I’m keeping that one. Great!
Or “get off me” when it’s over.
Just whisper “your sister was better” in her ear then see if you can hang on. That would be a wild ride right there.
Want to have some fun! Gotta know the woman some, (bored wife). Take out a hundred dollar bill and proposition her. I used to do that on occasion and it made her crazy horny for hours. Careful though, you really have to know her mind.
Give her a good book to read.
BAM
I used to be a real man. Now I am old. Once a day is about all I can manage,unless of course I am participating in a study of the Coolidge effect. Then sky’s the limit.
Can you believe the Coolidge effect was studied? Lucky bastards.
Being old is being liberated.
Yep, being old is realizing that they aren’t quite worth what they think they are.,
You stop trying so hard, and all them divorcees and widows seem to come out of the woodwork.
But your dick still drives you.
5 max…