Sex (especially great sex) can make strong men feel weaker or less driven, or at least persuade them to ease up to some degree. Among creative types post-coital drainage always slows your rivers down to a trickle. Okay, I don’t know how true this actually is, but it’s a well-established myth — i.e., “There goes another novel.”
From Jake Malooley’s “After Hours: The Oral History of a Cult Classic” — Air Mail, 8.22.23:
Not to mention…
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