Six actions after sex that hurt your body and heart

Many couples like to drink some cold drinks after sex because of dry mouth, or they are used to falling asleep immediately due to excessive physical exertion. Some couples also wash their bodies immediately after making love. Little do people know that these behaviors will cause certain physical and mental harm to both husband and wife after sex. Now, let’s listen to the experts’ inventory of the six most unhealthy and heartbreaking behaviors that you should never do after sex. Let’s take a look.

Action 1: Men urinate immediately

Urinate promptly after sex to flush the urethra and avoid infection. For women, urinating immediately after sex is a simple and effective way to prevent urinary tract infections. Because the female urethra is shorter and straighter, bacteria from the vulva may move upward into the urethra during sexual intercourse, causing urethritis, cystitis, etc.

However, experts say that men should not rush to urinate after sex, otherwise it will cause damage to the prostate, because the male urethra is long and curved, and the resistance to urine passage is large and the time is long.

Sexual intercourse has just ended, the congestion of the corpus cavernosum of the penis has not yet subsided, and the contraction of the urethral sphincter and detrusor has not yet been eliminated, which causes high urethral resistance, leading to difficulty in urination or even inability to urinate. If you are in a hurry to urinate at this time, the pressure in the urethra will increase, and the urine containing bacteria and metabolic waste will flow back into the prostate. If this continues for a long time, it will easily lead to prostatitis.

Experts suggest that men should rest for 5 to 10 minutes after ejaculation and urinate after the congestion disappears. It should be noted that if you experience symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain after sex, it may be an infection of the urinary system and you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Action 2: Go to sleep immediately

Men generally feel tired after sex, so many people like to fall asleep, thinking that this can eliminate the feeling of fatigue. In fact, the opposite is true, which will make the fatigue after ejaculation continue until the next day.

Usually, when a couple has sex, the period from sexual excitement to orgasm usually lasts about 5 to 20 minutes, but it can also be longer than that. During sexual intercourse, the human body's sympathetic nerves are in a highly tense state, and various hormones, especially sex hormones, are secreted vigorously.

The reason why you feel tired after sexual intercourse is mostly because the reflex function of the cerebrospinal cord that controls the discharge of semen temporarily relaxes after ejaculation. During ejaculation, the nerves become excited and tense, and after ejaculation, the nerves and spinal reflex nerves relax. Young people have sensitive and active nerves, so they recover quickly, some even immediately.

Do not go to bed immediately after sex, but get up and continue doing some daily activities. This can help the reflex nerves that have become dull due to the stimulation of sexual intercourse to recover smoothly. If you fall asleep immediately after sex, the dulling effect of sleep plus the dulling effect of sexual stimulation will make the fatigue continue until the next day and cause you to have back pain.

Action 3: Eat cold food immediately

During sexual intercourse, people often feel hot and thirsty, and eating cold foods will not have any adverse effects on the reproductive system. Because the changes caused by sexual excitement are only concentrated in the sensory nervous system and endocrine system, as the sexual excitement subsides, these changes will slowly return to normal. Even if eating cold things has a stimulating effect, it is only limited to the digestive tract.

However, since the sympathetic nerves are more excited during sexual intercourse, the gastrointestinal blood flow will be reduced compared to usual times. Therefore, drinking ice water immediately before the congestion of the gastrointestinal mucosa returns to normal will cause the gastrointestinal mucosa to suddenly become cold, causing certain damage to the gastrointestinal tract.

As for those who suffer from gastroenteritis, indigestion, and ulcers, even if they do not have sex, it is not good for them to eat too much cold food. It can be seen from this that eating cold ice cream, popsicles, etc., regardless of whether you have sex or not, should be done in moderation according to your gastrointestinal function and should not be eaten without restraint.

Action 4: Blow dry immediately

You are likely to sweat all over after sex. Men like to expose their naked bodies directly to the air conditioner, which is also wrong as it gives germs an opportunity to take advantage. After sexual intercourse, the body's ability to regulate body temperature will weaken, making it more susceptible to colds.

In addition, if you blow cold air directly, it will cause the sweat gland excretion pores to close suddenly, making it impossible for sweat to be discharged. Therefore, even in the hot summer, you should avoid blowing cold air from the air conditioner without clothes on, and you should cover yourself with a thin blanket.

Action 5: Go straight to the bathroom

You may do it for cleanliness, but from the other person's perspective, you are in a hurry to end the sex and don't give the other person a chance to "do it again"; or you think sex is "dirty" and even the body fluids left on your body by the other person are not clean. This situation is more common in women.

In fact, it is sufficient to do basic cleaning before and after sex. The body has a "self-defense system" and will not open a convenient channel for bacteria just because of a few minutes of intimacy after sex.

Action 6: Go to sleep immediately or go to bed separately

One spouse may be accustomed to the comfort of "monopolizing" a bed, thinking that this way they will not be disturbed by the other when sleeping. But after sex, you should make an exception and share a bed with your partner, or at least be intimate and have a private conversation in the same bed.

At the same time, whether it is one person or both people, falling asleep immediately after passion will reduce the charm of sex. Because in this way, both parties will not have time to experience the satisfaction after sex, nor can they relive the passion of sex. Sleeping in separate beds may cause one partner to mistakenly believe that all the other's previous enthusiasm was just for "sex".