Millennial Men Want Pizza—Not Cuddling—After Sex

If you consider yourself a romantic, you may want to stop reading.

Post-coital food preferences

Results of a Yelp survey, which were reported in The Daily Beast, found that of the 2,000 millennials surveyed, three-quarters said they crave pizza more than any other food after sex. Tacos were second.

Post-coital preferences: food or cuddling?

But what if men and women aren’t specifically asked which food they crave most after sex, but rather if they’d prefer food to cuddling?

A 2011 study published in the Journal of Sex Research did just that.

The researchers discovered that while women wanted more intimacy after sex, including things like cuddling or having the man profess his love for her, men were more likely to “engage in something extrinsically rewarding, like fixing a drink or making a sandwich.”

Not exactly groundbreaking research.

What about when men want seconds?

Although a third study, this one published in the Journal of Urology International, found that the post-orgasm release of the chemical prolactin decreases sexual desire in both men and women, it’s stronger in men.

That may explain why some men get irritated after sex, with some even reporting that they are suddenly not attracted to their partner.

With all these working against a second round of sex, how do any men manage to get hard enough to go back for more? Is it the post-coital sandwich that gives them the stamina, erection and re-attraction to their partner?

Who knows? Maybe the prolactin subsides, or perhaps it’s that the men who are up for a sequel are taking erectile dysfunction drugs, like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra.

Although most of the men who take erectile dysfunction medications do so because they need help getting or staying hard the first time, some men (especially younger ones) are now taking it just to be able to have sex multiple times.