According to a new pilot study published in the journal, participating in sexual acts with a solo or partner can lead to better sleep. Sleep health. According to this study, partners’ sex and solo masturbation all have reduced the time they were awake and improved overall sleep efficiency. This effect was not reflected in the subjective report on sleep quality, but objective sleep monitoring showed consistent improvements over the night.
Many people believe that orgasms have a comfortable effect, but most of the existing evidence depends on the subjective report. Only one study, which was conducted 30 years ago, attempted to objectively measure sleep after sexual activity, and the design limit was significant. This study aimed to solve this gap by measuring sleeping stages and sleep quality in a real environment using a portable brain monitoring device.
Michele Lastella, senior instructor of CQUNVERSITY AUSTRALIA, said, “I have been investigating the sleep behavior of the adult population for several years, but I focus on improving the sleep behavior of elite athletes, but I always ask a variety of questions about sleep.
“The frequent question is,” How did my partner sleep immediately after sex? I thought this was related to orgasm. “
The new study is part of a wide range of research efforts to investigate the relationship between performance and sleep. Initial work Lastella and his colleagues I surveyed and found 778 people Both men and women recognized that sex with orgasm helped to sleep faster and better. These results have stimulated the current research, which provides more detailed and objective appearance than how sexual activity affects sleep physiology.
The researchers recruited seven heterosexual couples of 14 participants, all of which are healthy, sexually active and living together in Namho. Participants were selected to affect sleep routines because they had no sleep disorders, were not pregnant and had no children. All participants reported that they participated in sex at least twice a week. The final sample consists of seven men and seven women.
Participants were monitored for 11 consecutive days using repetitive measurements and crossover designs. Each couple completed the night under three conditions: sexual activity, solo masturbation (including orgasm) and partner relationship (orgasm). To objectively measure sleep, the participants wore a wireless polysome no shooting device (Dreem3 headband) that records brain activity, movement and breathing during the night. Participants also completed their own report diary every morning and explained in detail the sexual activity, sleep quality, mood and preparation of the upcoming day.
When the participants were engaged in sexual activities, they went to bed later than night without sex. However, they also spent much less awake time when they fell asleep and had more time to sleep in bed because they had high sleep efficiency. Sleep efficiency was 93.2%after solo masturbation, 93.4%after partner gender, 93.4%compared to 91.5%of the night without sex. Participants were less awake for about 7 minutes during the night after sex.
Interestingly, the improvement of sleep was only obvious in objective data. Participants did not report a significant difference in thinking that they slept under three conditions.
“We observed that it was a solo masturbation or partner relationship, reducing the time we were awake overnight, improving the overall sleep efficiency, improving the objective sleep quality, and participating in sexual activities.
But they reported more motivated and prepared on the day after they had a partner relationship. On average, the participants were 8-11 points higher after the night of partner sex compared to night without sex (100 points).
Another aspect surveyed in the study is about how sexual activity can affect the synchronization of the sleeping stage between partners, known as the matching stage. Previous studies show that couples who share beds tend to enter REM sleep at a similar time, which suggests that sleep can affect sleep patterns. The study found that the REM sleep stage was quite long when I slept with myself when I slept alone, whether or not the couple was in sex. This suggests that the sleep behavior itself can promote synchronized REM sleep by sharing environmental and physiological signals.
In terms of certain sleeping stages, the researchers found that participants spent more time at the lightest sleeping stage (N1) at night without sex. The difference (about 2 minutes) was statistically significant, but it would not get clinical importance. Although other sleeping steps, including Deep Sleep (N3) and REM sleep, did not show significant differences over three conditions, but tended to suggest some improvements after sexual activity.
These results are consistent with previous studies. For example, the 2023 study published in the Journal of Sleep Research used a 14 -day diary method, and the partner relationship with Orgasm found a short time to sleep and a better report quality. However, this study did not include objective sleep measures and found unusual results in solo masturbation. The current study supports the idea that orgasm may have a sleep promotion effect, regardless of partner, but this effect is more clearly captured through objective measurements.
The research author suggests that the benefits of the sleep observed by the orgasm of the orgasm can be explained. Orgasms are known to increase the release of oxytocin and prolactin while reducing cortisol levels. Occasional oxytocin, often called “combined hormones,” is low stress and lower sleep, and prolactin is associated with sexual satisfaction and relaxation. Such hormonal shifts can reduce awakening and promote smooth switching with a comfortable sleep.
But there were some limitations in the study. This sample consists of 14 small and 14 participants and is all healthy heterosexual couples. This restricts the ability to generalize the results of a broader population, such as the elderly, a person with sleep disorders, or a person who has a heterosexual relationship. Participants had to activate the sleep monitoring device after sex, which naturally reduced the likelihood of interfering with the transition to sleep and capturing a very short sleeping waiting time.
Lastella said, “One of the main challenges is to set up a device to record according to sex, as an individual can try to sleep after sexual activity in an individual in an ideal scenario.
Another limit was the possibility of social desire bias in its own reporting measures. Objective data was less vulnerable to this, but participants may have felt that they tended to evaluate sleep or sexual experiences more positively. Researchers pointed out that future research should be aimed at including more diverse and larger samples and whether sexual activity can be used as a behavioral intervention of poor sleeping people.
“We are actively looking for funds to support the third part of the survey to recruit greater samples with poor sleep quality or poor participants and to investigate whether sexual activity can help with subsequent sleep behavior,” Lastella said. “This type of study is important because it provides a non -drug approach to improve not only sleep behavior but also health and welfare. You can see if this study is interested in you or if there is a chance to support this type of study.”
research,”Sleep: A pilot study that explores the effects of sexual acts on the sleep results of cohabitation couple”” Michele Lastella, Dean J. Miller, Ashley Montero, Madeline Sprajcer, Sally A. Ferguson, Matthew Browne and Grace E. Vincent have been written.
