This is a sex question

48 hours of rollercoasting from home to the courts to the police station to home to gramps to bail centre to courts to home has left me low, drained and to the point where I can’t remember how to carry out the simpliest of things.

I think I’ve mentioned here before the importance of hug therapy when combating familial conflicts but there’s just this one other therapeutic intervention which precedes warm hugs in bed, that is, therapeutic sex. Of course me being so tired, my libido must have been affected till this conversation reminded me of it.

Scene – At the kitchen counter, hugging and complaining about the unfair justice system.

Me: It’s sooo unfair, and I can’t help because it’s just all too much. Too stressful.

Him: Well, let’s make out* tonight. To destress.

Me: Ok, but considering my stress level, how many times should we do it?

Which left me wondering how much stress can one session of good sex help?

Are there any scientific studies out there which can detail it out statistically in hours and minutes how much of one’s stress level is reduced after one orgasm?  Two orgasms? A fake orgasm?

And those studies which supposedly proved the wonders of sex, how did they measure its  healing powers?

Zero stress at time of picture taken. Posed picture obviously cause we’re clad in those lush robes.

*In our personal dictionaries, making out is equivalent to making love and the probable reason for us using the former term is because the usage of such a term makes it sound juvenile enough for us to feel as if we’re still 15 (or whatever age kids start making out in this day and time).