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[Poll #1630733]

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[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

but, you know, i'm famous for being fucked up :)

[beah.livejournal.com]

After, never. During, though, rarely.

[blk]

I liberally interpreted the "after" in the poll above as "after orgasm," which is usually still "during sex" in my experience, and answered for that.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

I don't care about how often I cry, but about how often I have the sort of sex that might make me cry. THAT I need more of

[veek.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction to this poll, too! It was a sort of reverie. Good thing I wasn't in a meeting.

[mizarchivist]

FWIW, the tears aren't negative- fraught, but almost never (never say never) of the BAD.

[darthsunshine.livejournal.com]

This happens often when I've been unpartnered for a while, and has happened occasionally with a partner. (I'm also interpreting "after sex" as "after orgasm," which may still be during sex.)

The first time I remember this happening was after my second divorce. I cried post-orgasm pretty much every time for about 6 months during the year that I was celibate. I was convinced it was proof that I was clinically depressed (which I likely was).

I've been through several periods in the last 3+ years of celibacy when I've done the same thing, but my attitude about it now is (with rare exceptions) completely different. I don't automatically assume it's a sign of pathology, so I don't get upset about it or take it to mean anything other than that I'm crying. I'm rather curious to see what, if anything, changes when (if?) I have partnered sex again.

I've gone in the "opposite" direction

[gatopreto.livejournal.com]

Though I rarely cry (once in a long while), I often laugh/giggle, and this applies to all kinds of sexual activity.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have ever cried during or after sex. Which is odd, in some ways, because I'm an easy-weeper.

[beowabbit]

Never, but I think I get it.

(That started out as “but I totally understand it”, but I decided that was unwisely optimistic. :-)

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

As others have said: during, yes; after, no. This only happens with fennel, and he knows not to stop. ;-) I don't think I'd want it to happen more often, actually, because it's always a powerful release, and if it happened more often I think that would water it down.

[blivious.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've never cried, but I have laughed from time to time.

[catness.livejournal.com]

I used to cry after sex, when I lived a lonelier life. I got *way* over being in love with the unattainable, though, by the time I moved to the east coast. :)