Exploring the delicate art of avoiding post-hookup awkwardness.
Sleeping with someone you just met—say, after dominating trivia night at the local bar—is one of the few pure thrills left on this rotten planet. One minute you’re strangers, the next you’re rolling around like feral animals, and if your brain were doing the thinking instead of your dick, it would be screaming, Oh yeah, buddy, this is what it feels like to be alive. There’s the gnawing and the sucking and the thrusting, and just when it feels like you’ve slipped into some alternate dimension where everything in the universe finally makes sense, it’s over.
And that’s when something strange happens. All the charm and confidence that fueled that nipple-biting lust evaporates in an instant, replaced by an awkward silence more uncomfortable than that time your mom caught you jacking off. Suddenly, two people who couldn’t keep their hands off each other are now completely unsure what comes next.
“The awkwardness that follows sex with someone for the first time is actually very normal from a psychological and biological standpoint.”
Dr. Rachel Needle
This reaction, however, is not a character flaw or dysfunction—this is all part of the porking process. “The awkwardness that follows sex with someone for the first time is actually very normal from a psychological and biological standpoint,” Dr. Rachel Needle, licensed psychologist and co-director of Modern Sex Therapies Institute, tells HUSTLERMagazine.com. “During sex, the brain is flooded with arousal chemicals like dopamine and norepinephrine, along with bonding hormones such as oxytocin. Immediately afterward, those neurochemicals drop, and people return to a more reflective, self-aware state.”
