Why Am I Hornier At Certain Times Of The Month

Why Am I Hornier At Certain Times Of The Month

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The whole ovulation cycle has always been confusing to me. When does it actually start, when will I be at my crankiest and, most importantly, when can I look forward to being at my most randy?
But knowledge equals power, and I don’t think I’m selfish for wanting to optimize my sex life by taking my menstrual cycle into consideration. After all, the hormonal changes that occur throughout the month as a result can cause us to feel hornier than ever at specific times; it’s all to do with our bodies getting us ready to procreate.
If, like me, you’re nowhere near ready to have children and just want to be in it for the mind-blowing sex , consider this your guide according to the menstruation stars…
The first day of bleeding is considered day one of your menstrual cycle; the hormone progesterone plummets, which causes your uterine lining to shed. This can be quite traumatic for your body, so expect this to be the week you’ll have the least amount of energy (read: it’s not totally unreasonable to take a sick day – heck, some places even offer paid period leave ).
What to do: Avoid any social events and make this the week about you. If it’s not possible to take a day off work, make sure you at least take advantage of your full lunch break.
At this time, sex will be the last thing on your mind, and that’s okay – but it’s important to keep your sex drive in top shape. Think of it like muscles in bootcamp: the more you train, the better they will become. To keep the raunchy juices flowing, invest in a really adult coloring book, like Fill Me In by Sarah McDonnell or Sex Position Coloring Book: Playtime For Couples – it’ll encourage mindfulness, give you a real excuse to enjoy your lunch break and give you ideas for your next romp.
At this stage, your pituitary gland will release the follicle-stimulating hormone, which stimulates the growth of ovarian follicles to between five and 20. Usually just one of these follicles will develop into an egg – the others die and exit the body in the ‘menstruation’ phase.
This week signals a rise in appetite-suppressing estrogen and libido-stimulating testosterone, which will boost your energy levels and improve your brain and mood function. It also means women who don’t feel a strong sexual attraction to their current partner may feel tempted to cheat, according to research by the University of New Mexico’s Dr Steven Gangestad and the University of California’s Dr Martie Haselton. They put it down to the fact women are more attractive to men when they’re approaching their most fertile stage, making women feel as though they have more options available to them. Add to that the knowledge that women are subconsciously on the hunt for a genetic match during this time and you’ll be left with a randy, flirty woman who’s good to go if the right circumstance presents itself.
What to do: Your body is feeling fresh and cleansed after the previous week – you made it through another period! You’ll have a new lease on life, wanting to make up for moping about and missing out on good stuff last week, giving you a newfound respect for exercise and socializing.
If you’re partnered up, try not to act on your wandering eye – unless that’s something you and your partner have had a discussion about.
This is also the perfect time to really prove your worth at work and possibly even ask for that payrise, as you’ll have a newfound confidence and your mind will be working at 100 per cent.
Lift your skirt or drop your pants – this week, estrogen and testosterone levels are at their peak as the egg gets released from its follicle in your ovary, ready to be fertilized, and that means your sex drive will be through the roof. As mentioned earlier, this is all in the name of procreating, but it even affects us on a subconscious level. According to researchers from the University of Minnesota, we buy and wear sexier clothes when we are most fertile to beat off competition for a mate, and we don’t even know we’re doing it.
What (or, rather, who ) to do: Him, her, everyone! But a wise warning to all the straight ladies reading this: if you don’t want all of the sex to end in a mistake, make sure he covers his snake. Or, if you’re riding solo, open your pleasure box and pleasure your own box.
They say what goes up must come down, and that’s also true of hormones. Estrogen and testosterone levels will decline and your body will instead start to produce progesterone, an anti-anxiety hormone (think of it like a natural Valium), so you’ll notice you’ll feel pretty chilled – but this doesn’t mean you’ll be lazy or completely relaxed. All of these changes can lead to PMS symptoms, including bloating , cravings for comfort foods as well as headaches and moodiness.
What to do: Try your best to eat healthily, but don’t deny yourself the opportunity to indulge in the treat you’re craving. Wear loose tops over jeans to cover (and help suck in) any bloating, and take a yoga class to stretch out.
On your better days, you’ll be determined to tick things off your to-do list; it’s your body’s way of preparing you for the lethargy that can come with the start of the cycle.
According to Gabrielle Lichterman, women’s health writer and author of 28 Days: What Your Cycle Reveals About Your Love Life, Moods And Potential , estrogen and progesterone levels will start to build again towards the end of the week and including the first day of menstruation, which means you’re more likely to use the right (creative) side of your brain. What better time to experiment with role-play in the boudoir?
Comment: How do you cope with PMS symptoms?
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March 25, 2019

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Can a dude's hormone cycle really become synced with his partner's?
Redditor Nemo’s wife has “a pretty regular cycle,” he tells MEL. “Almost exactly 30 days.” Seven years ago, she went off birth control and had a daughter, and since then, Nemo says, he’s much more attuned to his wife’s hormones. In turn, he believes his own hormone cycle has synced up with hers.
“I’m very sensitive to the way she smells,” the 35-year-old explains. “When she was pregnant, she smelled amazing, in a way that was sexy, but also appealing outside of sex as well — just… good. Really good.”
Ever since his wife’s pregnancy, he’s noticed the way her smell changes with her cycle. And once he smells love in the air, he says, his own libido kicks in.
“I don’t know if its hormonal or a physical reaction to subtle changes in her, I’ve noticed over the past couple yrs that for about 1 week a month, my libido is extremely high. I typically need a release anywhere between 2 to 4 times a day and am constantly thinking of it; normally it’s once or twice every couple days. I don’t know if there’s anything biological about this and my T levels are pretty normal so I’m curious.”
The men in this thread aren’t alone in thinking this is a thing. Here’s a study from 2015 suggesting men have a monthly hormone cycle — though the scientist’s results were never replicated and are widely dismissed. Actually, the science is well established that men experience hormone cycles on a 24-hour basis .
So what are these hormone-sensitive guys actually feeling — and is it really what they think it is? I talked to a few experts for their thoughts on the topic.
According to Alisa Vitti, founder of hormone health-care company FLO Living , “men create their testosterone for the day while they sleep.” It results in a spike in testosterone in the morning, which then dwindles as the day goes on — assuming there aren’t things that trigger a spike in testosterone like sexual or physical activity.
But are they really synced with their partners? Vitti says these guys aren’t imagining things. “Men and women operate on a totally different hormonal pattern,” she tells MEL . “But they do have a most synchronous time of day for emotional and physical connection: in the mid-afternoon.”
In Vitti’s book WomanCode , she writes that this is the point in the day where most women’s cortisol — or their alertness and energy — levels are highest. Men might not be at their highest testosterone levels then, but it is the point in their daily hormone cycle where estrogen peaks . “The combination actually makes men more emotionally present during sex,” she writes, “and better able to focus on a woman’s needs and satisfaction.”
So some say there is a daily time when hormones can more closely “align.” But what about the guys who swear they’re feeling very horny only once a month?
Sexologist Dr. Jill McDevitt argues it might simply be a sociological response. She says biological syncing “is a stretch.” She links to “ one tiny study that demonstrated (mild) fluctuations in (some of but not all) cis men’s hormones when his female partner was pregnant.”
“The monthly cycle hormone fluctuations, then, seems even less likely, and less convincing from a biological perspective,” she says.
From a sociological perspective, though, it could make sense.
“If your partner gets really aroused before their period, for instance, their enthusiasm can be arousing to you, making it seem like something is ‘syncing up,’” she tells MEL. In other words, if every third week of the month your partner is all horned up, men will naturally get horned up too, and in hindsight this might appear to be a synced-up hormone cycle — especially if you’re not considering what your partner is going through hormone-wise.
Such is the case with Nemo, who feels his wife’s libido rise with the cycle of her period. “Her libido increases leading up to her period, and lingers high during and after,” he explains. “And her friskiness, and friskiness-adjacent activities like flouncing about in low-cut tops and cracking dirty jokes, makes me, er, perk up and pay attention, as it were. After a couple years of this, it may be a bit Pavlovian at this point.”
He admits himself that this might be a sociological effect rather than biological: “I don’t know to what degree our libido cycle is ruled by hormones versus housework. We’ll go a week or two where it’s go-go-go with barely time to sleep, then we’ll be all caught up for a few days and spend the whole time screwing around, in both senses of the phrase, until things pile up again.”
Whether you believe in the biological facts or not , Vitti says, overall it’s a good thing that these guys are aware of their partner’s cyclical phases. Not only from that standpoint of the sexual health of a relationship, but if “one partner is aware of his woman’s cyclical phase,” Vitti explains, “then he can customize his approach with social, emotional and physical interaction to optimize the relationship.”
In fact, Vitti has created an app for this very subject, called the MyFLO App , which includes a feature for women to let the men in their lives “know which phase she’s in.”
She explains, “He’ll get a hormonal dossier with a list of things that she’ll find most enjoyable during that time. Sometimes she wants to stay at home and order in, and other times she needs some space. You don’t have to be psychic. You just need to know her cycle.”
And though it might sound weird to be like Nemo and so intimately knew your wife’s cycle, he says it’s helped keep the spark alive in his marriage.
“Emotionally speaking, even in a marriage, initiating intimacy is putting yourself out there, in a way. If you’ve enjoyed each other recently, it’s a lot easier to step over that line and initiate with an expectation of success,” he explains.
He adds that knowing his wife’s cycle helps break down the barriers that can pile up and lead to a dead bedroom. “If one or both have been too tired, or too irritated, or too inattentive recently, it’s a much bigger barrier, which tends to contribute to the cycle,” he says, adding that “maybe it’s hormones that provide the initial push to overcome inertia; maybe it’s something else.”
Still, Nemo confesses he and his wife wish they could be more intimate than they already are, but life gets in the way. “We wish we could be intimate more often, but the travails of parenthood interfere more often than not,” he concludes. “But for about a week every month, we’re more willing to let other things slide and prioritize that part of our relationship.”
Quinn Myers is a staff writer at MEL. He reports on internet culture, technology, health, masculinity and the communities that flourish within.

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Midway through June, it's become apparent that it's more than just the weather that's hot right now.
Everywhere you look, love (or at least lust) is in the air, percolating between sun-kissed lovers in tank tops and pre-distressed shorts.
There's a tangible sense of energy in the air, and for a lot of us, it's coming across as arousal. There's something about the inescapable heat and endless daylight that makes us want to fuck, but that feeling is more than just an illusion.
People really do get hornier in the summer. Even when the rampant swamp ass and mosquito bites should make people less attractive, some ironic force and unseen chemical reaction conspire to make them the opposite: purely and eminently fuckable.
According to Ashwini Nadkarni, M.D., a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, sunlight tends to make people more hornier because it boosts their mood and makes them feel extra lovey-dovey towards others.
"Sunlight has been shown to have an association with serotonin, a key neurotransmitter in the ability to experience pleasure," she explains.
Interestingly, a serotonin boost is the same reaction that's responsible for both improved libidos in people taking SSRIs for depression, and the hyper-charged horniness many people feel on certain drugs like molly or cocaine.
If serotonin makes you horny, melatonin does the opposite. Melatonin is more like, "Go to fucking bed you horny weirdo."
Jessica O'Reilly, Ph.D., Astroglide's resident sexologist, explains that sunlight blocks melatonin production, which is bad for your sleep but great for your libido as melatonin can interfere with sex hormones like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and serotonin itself.
No wonder those long summer days turn into hot summer nights ...
O'Reilly also thinks that all the outdoor stuff we do, be it grilling, water skiing, hiking, walking more often or lounging by the pool all increases our awareness of our bodies and those of others. As a result, we tend to look a little bit better in the summer. Couple that with the increased socialization that longer days and better weather allow, and you create a safe space for boners to be themselves.
According to Dr. Nadkarni from above, summer libido spikes also due the amount of skin we show. Most people are one triangle-shaped cloth away from being naked, and all the pleasures of the flesh we have to feast our eyes on only remind us that it feels as good to touch people as it does to look at their scantily clad bodies. Creepy ... but hot ... but creepy.
According to a study from Villanova University, June and July see the highest number of sex-related Google searches. We mean ... why have AC if you're not going to use it?
When it's 108 degrees outside and most of your skin is exposed, your sweating body is much better at conveying chemical signals to others through pheromones.
Many studies have shown that male pheromones expressed through sweat have an arousing effect on women, and men are capable of unconsciously detecting whether a woman is ovulating (and therefore more fertile) via pheromones as well.
This one's speculation on our part, but doesn't it make sense that the heat and long days would initiate a kind of Pavlovian response in us that recalls the many summers we spent as kids fucking around and getting into trouble?
With no schoolwork to bog us down and the U.S. government making it illegal for anyone under 15 to hold a job, we'd run wild, steal our parent's liquor and fingerbang each other at Water World.
We'd go to summer camp and have sexual awakenings at the site of peri-pubescent body parts we never previously thought about bouncing on the saddle of some poor, beat up horse named Cheyenne.
We'd swarm the local ice cream store and listen to our friend's older sister explain what giving a blowjob was like.
We'd have our first kiss, then our first make out, and then we'd lose our virginity in a hammock at our friend's parent's Summer Solstice BBQ.
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