Usually, during sexual activity, couples experience a duration of approximately 5 to 20 minutes from the excitement of both parties to the end of orgasm, with some even longer. During sexual intercourse, the sympathetic nervous system in the human body is tense, and various hormones, especially sexual hormones, are secreted vigorously.
At this point, the sexual organs of both parties are not only in a hyperemic state, but from the period of sexual excitement to orgasm, many tissues of the body are also involved in special physiological processes such as accelerated heartbeat, increased blood pressure, accelerated breathing, systemic skin vascular dilation, and increased sweating. Therefore, during this process, the energy consumption of the fuselage significantly increases and metabolism enhances.
After sexual activity, men generally feel tired, so many people like to sleep and believe that this can eliminate fatigue. In fact, the opposite is true. Going to bed immediately after sexual activity not only causes discomfort for women, but also the fatigue after ejaculation lasts until the next day.
Fatigue after sexual activity is mostly the result of temporary relaxation of the reflex function of the brain and spinal cord that controls semen discharge after ejaculation. During ejaculation, the nerves are excited and tense, and after ejaculation, the nerves and spinal cord reflex nerves relax.
Due to the active neural sensitivity of young people, they recover quickly, and there are also some who recover quickly. Older people have sluggish neural responses and a relatively long recovery time. They immediately fall asleep after ejaculation, and their fatigue reflex function continues to relax, making it difficult for fatigue to disappear.