Research reveals what half of all women feel after an intimate session

The feelings described by 46% of women surveyed after they experience intimacy may come as a surprise.

It's a stereotype that women can be ' clingy' post-intercourse - but a new study claims there's more to it than craving affection.

Almost half of all women could suffer from 'post-coital dysphoria', researchers say.

The condition means that, after sex, 46% of respondents could suffer from what has been termed "post-sex blues".

PCD is a condition which includes tearfulness, anxiety, agitation, a sense of melancholy or depression, or aggression.

 The paper, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, took in answers from 230 respondents to an online survey.

Although the blues, or PCD, didn't seem to be related to intimacy, it was considered something that 5% of the questioned women had suffered at least once in their lifetime.

 Some even said they had experienced PCD symptoms “a few times” within the past four weeks.

A study conducted by the Queensland Institute of Technology in 2011 found that a third of women said they felt depressed even after satisfactory sex.

Published in the International Journal of Sexual Health , the study suggested that changes in hormones post-climax could be to blame for attitude changes and headaches.

Lead researcher Dr Robert Schweitzer said: “The results of our original research in this area have now been confirmed in an international multinational study on negative postcoital emotions, which appear to have evolutionary functions."