Your Hormonology Guide to Understanding Your Sex Cycle
Forget penciling in sexual playtime on the weekends or your days off. You’ll enjoy it more when you head to the bedroom on the days when your libido and orgasm intensity peak in your cycle. Here are the perfect—and not so perfect—days for bedroom fun throughout the month:
Week 1: Hot days
First day of period to Day 7
This week’s hormone sex-scope: There’s lots to look forward to this week: your libido surges more and more each day, it’s easier to reach orgasm and the orgasms you do experience will be all-over intense. Credit goes to testosterone, a sex-enhancing hormone that rises thoughout this phase of your cycle. Jump into bed on these days with your mate or your favorite toy and you will not be disappointed. Turned off by “messy” period sex? There’s an easy solution: Try the Instead Softcup, a handy diaphram-shaped menstrual aid that neatly—and discreetly—collects menstrual fluid.
Week 2: Red hot days
Day 8 to Day 13
This week’s hormone sex-scope: There is simply no reason to miss these days of your cycle for sexual fun. Testosterone reaches its peak, which amps up your libido, makes it easier than ever to achieve orgasm and makes your orgasms more intense than during any other time in your cycle. In fact, if you can think of anything other than sex on these days, you get a gold star. Not feeling the libidinous love? Then it’s a red flag that something is amiss, perhaps, a hormone imbalance, too much stress, not enough sleep or another problem you need to talk with your doctor about.
Week 3: Lukewarm days
Day 14 (or ovulation) to Day 22
This week’s hormone sex-scope: Your sex life suddenly gets hit with a double-whammy: testosterone is at lower levels on these day and progesterone is rising all week long. Together, this hormonal duo dampens your libido and makes it difficult to reach orgasm. Even if you do manage to climax, it will be far less intense than the previous two weeks. All that said, it’s not like the sex you’ll have on these days will be torture. Any type of pleasant caressing, rubbing and titillation triggers a surge of feel-good brain chemicals that will make you feel wonderful for hours.
Week 4: Bonus hot days
Day 23 to the end of cycle
This week’s hormone sex-scope: Here’s a hormonal surprise: Testosterone plunges on these days, yet your sex drive surges. Researchers suspect this unexpected libido boost is a result of your body preparing for menstruation, which ends up stimulating nerve endings down below. Note: You may want to keep a bottle of personal lubricant by the bedside since declining estrogen on these days can decrease your natural lubrication, making intercourse a tad chafey.
Tip: The ultimate day—and time—for sex is…
The morning of Day 13 of a woman’s monthly cycle. The morning is when a man’s testosterone peaks in his 24-hour hormone cycle. And Day 13 is when testosterone peaks in a woman’s cycle. When these hormonal highs intersect, they can set the stage for the most intense orgasms all month long.
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[photo: Sabrina's Stash, Jonathan Fain]
