Almost half of women suffer post-sex blues
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“Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster,” the Ancient Greek doctor Claudius Galen wrote.
But recent research contradicts his saying. The results show nearly half of all women suffer “post-sex blues” -- a condition marked by tearfulness, melancholy or depression, anxiety and agitation after sex -- at some point.
According to the research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers asked 230 sexually active women aged 18 to 55 about how often they felt negative emotions after sex. A total of 46 percent answered at least once in their life, while 5 percent suffered the condition in the preceding month.
Researchers concluded that those who had been sexually abused or were not happy with their partner were more prone to the condition.
And they said women who were more sensitive or vulnerable to negative emotions were likely to have the condition, adding post-sex blues can last about four hours after sex.
Meanwhile, researchers said the cause of post-sex blues may have a genetic component because one in four twins in the research suffered the condition.