“Not today – my head hurts!” – this is a textbook form of refusal of unwanted sex. There is every reason to doubt its veracity.
“Those who experience frequent and unexplained headaches are more likely than other people to feel a strong sexual desire,” says MD Timothy Hole (Timothy T. Houle) from Wake Forest University (USA). What’s more, some men and women with migraine say that the headache goes away after orgasm. Their feelings are confirmed by neurologist James Couch (James R. Couch) from the Medical Center of the University of Oklahoma (USA): he found that orgasm really “heals” migraines in about one in five patients.