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After Sex All Animals Are Sad

Little is known about what happens in the brain during sex.

“Sex and Depression: In the Brain, if Not the Mind”

“One patient, a young man in his mid-20s, described it this way: ‘After sex, I feel literally achy and depressed for about a day.’ Otherwise, he had a clean bill of health, both medical and psychiatric: well adjusted, hard-working, lots of friends and a close-knit family. Believe me, I could have cooked up an explanation very easily. He had hidden conflicts about sex, or he had ambivalent feelings about his partner. Who doesn’t? There is nothing strange about a little sadness after sexual pleasure.” Written by Richard A. Friedman, M.D.

from The New York Times

 

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DB notes: Says Wallace Stevens in “Le Monocle de Mon Oncle: “If sex were all, then every trembling hand / Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for worlds.

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