Science says: overwork messes up your sex life

Burnouts are popping up all around me. It seems like one after another is working themselves to the bone and no one knows what we are doing wrong. Yes, we work in the evenings and on weekends, call a weekend away a vacation, are glued to our phones twenty-four-seven, need the calming playlist from Spotify to chill a bit or doze off, but that can't be the issue, right? Uhm, yes it is, and now it turns out that all of this also affects something we normally derive a lot of joy from and are very satisfied with: having sex. Research says that overworking is the mood killer in the bedroom. Okay, structural overwork helps a) ruin your health and b) takes the excitement out of your sex life. The researchers followed 159 heterosexual couples who filled out their work pressure and desire levels three times a day, I can imagine, and from that, the researchers derived a lot of wisdom. The days after a sexual encounter, all participants were noticeably happy. And for those people who were still busy tackling a bulk of emails in the evening, the chance of sex steadily decreased. This was true for both men and women. So those who had sex felt better at work, and those who experienced stress had less chance of sex. This especially applies if you do everything to the extreme. As my mother used to say: anything that has ’too' in front of it is not good for you. So you don't have to skip that one evening of overtime because you're afraid that all desire will immediately fly out the bedroom window. No worries.

Actually, it all makes a lot of sense because sex changes your biological state. During a good sexual encounter, dopamine and oxytocin are released, the substances that create an overall blissful feeling, after which you stand blinking at your coffee the next morning like a happy fool. The fact that you have sex also affects your colleagues because you are friendlier.

Your boss is happy too, because it increases your performance orientation and you are less easily irritated. Finally, it improves the quality of your sleep, allowing you to start the day as a refreshed person. I see a lot of sex benefits here, or is it just me?. Actually, at the end of the day, you shouldn't wish your colleagues a nice evening, but rather a lot of sex with their partner. No idea if they would find this funny at your office, but I know for sure that they would appreciate it here at the editorial office., P.S.: The type of sex was not addressed in the research, so it could very well be that it also has an effect on taking care of yourself. But maybe you better not say that to your colleagues.

P.P.S.: If you're too shy, you can always advise them to hygge.

Source: HLN.be.
“Actually, at the end of the day, you shouldn't wish your colleagues a nice evening, but rather a lot of sex with their partner”… “Actually, at the end of the day, you shouldn't wish your colleagues a nice evening, but rather a lot of sex with their partner”.

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