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Burnout from casual sex has women rethinking hookup culture DW 11/27/2025

Casual sex can be neutral or empowering for some but may cause postcoital dysphoria, emotional depletion, and harder-to-achieve deeper intimacy for others, especially women.
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Burned out: Exhaustion is making women rethink casual sex DW 11/27/2025

Heather, a 40-year-old woman from the US, describes this tension as leaving her feeling "empty, sad, and temporarily empowered, but always craving more." When engaging in casual sex, she regularly tried to turn off her emotions, which felt like "cutting off a part" of herself. Her description of the negative side of hookup culture is consistent with a little-researched condition called postcoital dysphoria (PCD), where people report negative emotions like tearfulness, sadness, or irritability after sex.
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