The cold, slimy embrace of their semen, sliding down your leg. Creating a damp patch on the bed. Sitting in between your butt cheeks. They never mention this bit in sex ed. They never show the waddle to the toilet in rom-coms. There are no magazine sex tips focusing on whose responsibility it is to get up and get the tissue to wipe yourself down.
Illustration by Brandon Bird. The human body, much like the Internet, is a series of tubes. These tubes transport all sorts of liquids: blood, sweat, tears, jizz, cerebrospinal fluid, and pee-pee. These liquids are supposed to stay flowing.
In those first moments after you've been intimate with someone, you're probably feeling pretty good. With so much happening and the fact you're probably tired , it's no surprise you're not focussing on what's going on with your body. Because sex involves the entire body, you may experience some reactions that seem a little off but are actually pretty normal. Here's a list of some of the most common things that can happen to your body after intimacy and why they're usually nothing to worry about. The chemical oxytocin, also known as the "love hormone," is released after orgasmic responses, she explained, which enhances a sense of closeness to one's partner.
A poster to one of our forums , ashley, wrote about her concerns of an abnormal vaginal odour after her male partner ejaculated inside her during sex. She also felt the semen would continue to leak out from her vagina for a week and was concerned the duration was contributing to the smell. To help answer ashley's question, it is firstly important to understand what is a 'normal' smell for a vagina. A healthy vagina is never odour-free. It is completely normal for your vagina to have a natural scent that is individual to you.