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Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome

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Sun, 2008-06-29 19:23 — Marnia

No Sex signGary and I were interested to discover that there is a very active forum on a popular science site in the UK called "Naked Scientists" about Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome, known as "POIS." These men (and a few women) suffer debilitating symptoms after orgasm, such as exhaustion, insomnia, flu-like symptoms, brain fog, anxiety, depression, weakness, indigestion and so forth. It tends to last for a few days until around two weeks. Doctors haven’t come up with any solutions, but do suggest that dopamine and prolactin are possibly implicated.

We wonder if it could be on the same spectrum with the milder - and often unrecognized - symptoms we think are natural to many, if not not most, lovers after sexual satiation, such as irritability, general malaise, anxiety, emotional over-reactions, and so forth.

The forum is extremely busy. Here they collected 90 cases from various sufferers.

Visit the POIS forum