No pillow talk: Women are more likely to fall asleep after sex than men

Action between the sheets has larger sedative properties for ladies than males, say researchers, including that girls are extra probably to go to sleep after intercourse, some cuddle and pillow discuss than males.

Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, the examine of 128 feminine and 98 male school college students discovered that girls reported a better chance of falling asleep after sexual encounter in comparison with males.

“Postcopulatory somnolence was also enhanced by orgasm in both women and men. However, with or without orgasm, women were more likely than men to report falling asleep after sex,” stated examine authors from State University of New York at Albany within the US.

The findings additionally confirmed that girls who had been being inseminated had been additionally extra probably to go to sleep after intercourse. There was no proof for intercourse variations within the sedative properties of masturbation, although.

“Our paper summarises growing evidence that the common designation for having sex, ‘getting laid’, maps on to an evolved adaptive mechanism that functions to promote sperm retention in humans, which as a species are unique in having evolved an upright posture and bipedalism,” examine writer Gordon G Gallup was quoted as saying in a PsyPost report.

“This brings the woman’s reproductive tract into a perpendicular orientation with respect to gravity where it may not be suitable for the retention of sperm,” Gallup added.

The findings run counter to a earlier examine on the subject, which discovered no variations in perceived sleep high quality or latency between women and men when intercourse with a associate concerned an orgasm.

Another examine discovered women and men fell asleep at roughly the identical time after intercourse, however girls had been extra probably to go to sleep first when intercourse hadn’t taken place, the researchers stated.

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