Feel sad, anxious or ‘homesick’ after sex? You might have post-coital dysphoria
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Research on PCD has determined that people of all genders and sexualities have had such feelings after sex and masturbation
In 2009, a young woman went to the student clinic at Queensland University of Technology in Australia with a problem: after sex with her partner, she always felt sad. Sometimes it was a hollow feeling, like a “black hole opened up” inside her. Other times, it was more subtle, akin to “homesickness”. It never happened during or before sex, only after. She was confused because she loved her partner, and they were in a stable relationship. The sadness could last for over an hour.
“This was a very counterintuitive experience, because that’s not really what you expect,” said Robert Schweitzer, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Health and the School of Psychology & Counseling at QUT. Schweitzer, who predominantly studied refugee mental health at the time, searched for mentions of post-sex negative emotions, and found very little research. But when he turned to Google, he found more than 50,000 websites that described post-coital blues or what’s now called post-coital dysphoria or PCD.
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