Feel like your partner isn't really "there" emotionally?

Name: Feel like your partner isn't really "there" emotionally?
Uploaded: 2024-12-11T11:01:03+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Vanessa Marin
Description: Short clip from a YouTube video (Vanessa Marin) featuring Xander Marin describing men's emotional/chemical experience after sex — specifically how…

11 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Short clip from a YouTube video (Vanessa Marin) featuring Xander Marin describing men's emotional/chemical experience after sex — specifically how post-sex neurochemicals (e.g., oxytocin) lower defenses and create a transient window of emotional vulnerability and intimacy often called "post-nut clarity."

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My experience has always been post sex is that's when I feel those defenses, like, are really gone. It might be the chemicals rushing through my. My head. Your post nut clarity. Yeah, my post not clarity. Or, you know, just probably that, like, rush of oxytocin and all the other neurotransmitters that are. They're going through that kind of lower the defenses and give you that opportunity to, like, kind of have a moment of sharing emotion and intimacy. For a lot of men, it's like, they may not be able to point to this explicitly, but, like, it's this huge moment of relief. It's like, oh, okay, I can be myself for a moment before the walls. The walls come crashing down.