After orgasm, the brain of a man turns off
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Men automatically fall asleep after orgasm, as scientists have found. Male brain, it turns out, initially programmed for it.
Scientists commissioned by the French government conducted a scan of the brain of male volunteers during and after sex. The scans carefully fixed the activity of the brain. It turned out that the prefrontal cortex of the man's brain, which is responsible for conscious thinking, immediately after orgasm is turned off. This immerses the stronger sex in the state of sleep just at the time when their partners want to communicate and continue to caress.
Two other areas - the waist cortex and amygdala - send signals to the rest of the brain about the need to remove all sexual desire. This is due to the release of substances that are immersed in sleep, that is, serotonin and opioids. Thus, the first scientific proof is obtained that men are not to blame for their "selfishness" after orgasm. They were made by nature.
"After a man experiences an orgasm, he usually enters a special period of time when sexual desire is completely cut off," explains the research leader, Dr. Serge Stolyar. "Women seem to have no such connection." After orgasm, women want more , and men - just to sleep. "
By the way, recently scientists have found out that men, on average, think about sex 19 times a day, which is about 8,000 times less than it was considered before. By the way, men think about food 18 times a day, which is almost comparable. The third place in the rating of men's thoughts is the theme of sleep - 11 times a day. This refutes the popular stereotype that a strong sex always and everywhere thinks only of sex. Women have intimate thoughts 10 times a day, reflections on sleep 8.5 times, and thoughts about food are as many as 15 times.