You want a naked woman in your bed to be one of two things: horny or satisfied. Nearly half of women have felt unexplainable sadness after sex, the study finds. The good news: Her crying may have nothing to do with you. Although if you do want to sharpen your skills, try the detailed instructions in How to Pleasure a Woman. It could just be a biological reflex to sex. The researchers found that women who had been sexually abused as children were more likely to experience postcoital dysphoria.

Consensual sex with a partner you're into is supposed to make you feel a lot of things, like sexy, close, ecstatic, blissed out, warm, relaxed But thanks to a growing area of research, we now know that about half of all sex-having people feel a flurry of negative emotions instead. Those post-sex blues, more formally called postcoital dysphoria , or PCD, are a common but under-researched and under-reported phenomenon that causes people to feel sad, angry, depressed, or anxious after an activity that's supposed to make you feel generally pretty great. Researchers have a few hypotheses about what could be behind your bedroom tears, and none of them have anything to do with anything being "wrong" with you. Basically: It's your sex life and you can cry if you want to!

Skip navigation! Story from Sex. If you consider yourself a "crier," then you probably have a lengthy list of seemingly emotionless triggers that have made you cry.