postcoitalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From post- +‎ coital.

形容詞

postcoital (not comparable)

1. Occurring after, or as a consequence of, sex.

   The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.

   • 2003, William Simon, Postmodern Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 82:

     Post-coital tristesse, like post-coital jouissance, is known only to the human animal and occurs as orgasm most often signals the end of immediate sexual excitement, if not the end of the pursuit of further sexual pleasure.

   • 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic‎:

     The most suspenseful Sex Box ever got was when Frostrup rushed up to the couples as they emerged from the box and attempted to interview them with all the peppy urgency of Erin Andrews at the Super Bowl, and you had to wonder whether the poor, blindsided, post-coital people would be able to do anything more than stare at the camera in abject horror.

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