Believe it or not,it's common for men and women to feel depressed after sex, even whether it was awesomely mindblowing. So the next time you glean it on and your partner turns away or doesn't want to participate in pillow talk, and he's not just being an insensitive jerk.
There's actually a genuine name for this condition. It's called post-coital tristesse (PCT). It comes from the Latin phrase post-coital and the French word tristesse,and it literally means "sadness." Many people who suffer from PCT will experience strong feelings of sorrow, anxiety, or uneasiness anywhere from immediately after sex to up to two hours later.
Why does this happen? It involves the hormone prolactin. Women have this hormone to perform milk,but men have it, too. Your body creates it after an orgasm to counteract the release of dopamine, and the hormone responsible for sexual arousal. So the prolactin is believed to cause these feelings of melancholy.
Why else might a person feel unhappy after sex?Sex is all about connecting with someone,and while the dopamine surging through your body makes you feel great while you're having sex, afterwards, and reality might sink in. You may feel disturbed or nervous about commitment,so you may want to be alone, or glean some emotional (and even physical) distance from the person you were just with. Sex also makes us say things in the heat of the moment, or so while your loins made you say "I love you and want to have your children," later on that may not seem like such a genuine idea.- Additional reporting by Alexis Nordby
Source: popsugar.com