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  • adjective After an orgasm

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post- +‎ orgasmic

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Examples

  • There I would wait once more while he collected his props, and perhaps his thoughts as well, and when he appeared at length, all chipper with a kind of postorgasmic glow, we would drive back to work in the same commandeered vehicle while he regaled me with tales of great paydays of the past, in Gallipoli and on the road to Mandalay.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • Then don't look postorgasmic when you are being wildly applauded.

    Sam Greenfield: Answering Questions is Darned Tough 2009

  • It is very possible that oxytocin plays a role in the aftermath of sex as well, in the role of "postorgasmic penile detumescence".

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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