Make-up sex is WAY better than normal sex because our senses get aroused during rows and it make you more frisky, experts claim
Scientists have confirmed romantic conflicts not only increase sexual desire, but make the actual act feel better than normal
COUPLES will tell you there's only one thing that gets more hot and passionate than they do in the throws of an argument - the make-up sex that so often follows.
And while for some it might sound like a strange turn of events, scientists have confirmed that romantic conflicts not only increase sexual desire, but make the actual act feel that little bit better than normal.
Arguments are bound to leave any couple feeling emotionally distant from each other, and sex acts as the perfect plaster to help repair any closeness that was ruined during a fight.
Research by Israel's Bar-Ilan University has showed that emotional threats primed many partners into wanting to have sex, and while it's best done when the argument has been resolved, it can be a form of therapy to work through it.
Marriage and family therapist Marissa Nelson told : "Conflict is something to be avoided, so sex is a way to reconnect without any words or apologies.
"What's more, the release of the 'love hormone' oxytocin during sex makes couples feel closer, soothing some of the hurtful emotional that may have come to the surface during an argument."
Not only this, but the therapist notes that couples usually take on their most novelty sexual routines after a tiff, spicing things up in order to help heal their scars.
"Sex is a place you enter and a role you have to step into," Marissa added. "So that time after an argument is a safe place to explore more kinky or assertive sex, and that can be very sexually satisfying."
Other experts believe that our need for makeup sex goes all the way back to our survival instincts, as an argument arouses fear and excitement, increasing blood flow to intimate areas of the body.
It's this that makes the act more pleasurable, with American therapist Douglas Brooks explaining emotionally-charged sex can cause better orgasms.
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"Most orgasms are not due to the mechanical pounding of intercourse, but because of the intense heightened emotional state and arrival," he said. "During an argument, our bodies get worked up too."
But the experts warns that couples should not rely on the act to resolve their problems - as makeup sex is a common problem couples cite during therapy.
"It's fine for people to engage in sex during or after an argument, provided that each person feels good about themselves and the situation afterwards," Douglas added.