Disclaimer:  If you are a blood relative or just don’t want to know specifics of my sex life, stop reading right now.  You have a choice.  Use it.  We are delving into the “Too Much Information” realm today.

While doing my blog-reading for the day, Mihow (favorite blog) had posted a blog about crying at odd times that have nothing to do with emotion.  She cries when she jogs.  Oddly enough, I didn’t find this strange at all.  I cry at an odd time as well.

I decided to leave a comment on Mihow’s post….an embarrassing and very personal comment.  You see, I cry whenever I have an intense orgasm.  Now let me explain this to you before you get some crazy picture in your head of Jessie and I in a lover’s embrace and I am bawling my eyes out.  That’s not quite the way it works.  It’s not every orgasm.  It’s the intense ones.  It’s not a river of tears.  It’s quiet with only a few tears.  There’s no sobbing.  

I can’t help it though.  The first time it happened to me I got really thrown off.  Luckily, I live in a time where the internet has the answer to almost any question.  Turns out, this is pretty common.  Some people on the internet were complete dicks about it (they were men, actually.  Frat boy douchebags to be exact) and said that only crazy women cried after sex.  Some people (romantic dips) said it was because you are SO IN LOVE with your partner.    Trust me, I’ve been with Jessie for nearly 8 years, I’m not thinking about how much I love him or blah blah blah.  You don’t want to know what I’m thinking, suffice it to say it is vivid and dirty. 

Then, finally, (after hundreds of really stupid and unhelpful answers and message boards) a medical website explained that an orgasm is a release and during that release stress and tension release in a huge surge and tears are your body’s way of reacting to that surge.  Seeing how stressed I get sometimes and how I use sex to relax, that makes perfect sense to me. 

Still, I feel embarrassed about it.  I feel that I’m weird.  I’m so lucky that Jessie understands and just laughs when he sees the tears.  It actually boosts his stupid male ego when he sees the tears because he knows that he basically just rocked my world.  It’s so off-putting to me because I’m not a crier.  I don’t cry often.  I know a lot of women are, and I don’t judge, but I just never get so overwhelmed by something that I just start crying.  So it’s weird when I shed 5 little tears after great sex. 

There, you officially know more about me than you should.  I’m going to go bury my head in the sand for a decade or so.

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