Close: Women can feel a sense of deflation after sexual relations
It's
a stereotype that women can be ' clingy' post-intercourse -
but a new study claims there's more to it than craving affection.
Almost half of all women could
suffer from 'post-coital dysphoria', researchers say.
The condition means that, after sex,
46% of respondents could suffer from what has been termed "post-sex
blues".
PCD is a condition which includes
tearfulness, anxiety, agitation, a sense of melancholy or depression, or
aggression.
The
paper, published in the Journal
of Sexual Medicine , took in answers from 230 respondents to an online survey.
Although the blues, or PCD, didn't
seem to he related to intimacy, it was considered something that 5% of the
questioned women had suffered at least once in their lifetime.
Some
even said they had experienced PCD symptoms “a few times” within
the past four weeks.
A
study conducted by the Queensland Institute of Technology in 2011 found that a third of women said they felt
depressed even after satisfactory sex.
Published
in the International Journal of Sexual Health , the study suggested
that changes in hormones post-climax could be to blame for attitude changes and
headaches.
Lead researcher Dr
Robert Schweitzer said: “The results of our original research in this area have
now been confirmed in an international multinational study on negative
postcoital emotions, which appear to have evolutionary functions." the Mirro
