Claims that early A.M. relations are seemingly the key to everything in life from keeping you fit to keeping you happy are all over the internet. But can any of this be true? After all, it seems way, way, way too good to be true. I mean, what else brings all of those benefits with it that also isn’t a strenuous slog that feels miserable at the moment.
The evidence of its benefits are mostly anecdotal, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t the most enjoyable placebo effect around. Some people will say, ‘Testosterone is high in the morning.’ But the thing that’s important to know is testosterone doesn’t drive sex. Testosterone reflects sex. If you have sex, testosterone goes up. But someone’s testosterone doesn’t affect when sex happens. It doesn’t matter whether your testosterone levels are higher in the morning or at night. This isn’t going to effect when sex happens.
Cortisol levels affect when one has sex, but again, there’s no correlation. Cortisol fluctuates during the daytime, but we have no reason to believe cortisol affects orgasm or arousal because while higher cortisol levels can cause arousal, orgasm decreases cortisol levels. And so, there isn’t a relationship between your levels of cortisol and when you have sex.
Morning sex may be better designed for men, many men often wake up with an erection or at least some sort of blood flow in the morning. And while there is such a thing as a ‘clit boner’ (it is erectile tissue, after all), vulvas often take four times as long to get blood flow than the penis. Many women, in fact, say that it takes longer for them to get aroused in the morning than it does throughout the rest of the day.
