On the one hand, the preconditions for good, restful sleep are independent from the sex: sufficient natural day light during the day, a healthy and well-balanced nutrition, drinking of good water, exercise – best in fresh air – as well as consideration of the own activity-and rest-rhythms. A disturbance-free, dark and well-tempered bedroom (between 61° and 64° F), a nature-like sleeping underlay that fulfills all orthopaedic and anatomic expectations as well as a cover and pillow that enable a dry-warm bedding climate are important when sleep is near.
On the other hand, scientific studies prove that men are better able to relax, when their partner is lying by their side, unlike women who are relaxing better when sleeping alone. A relict from primeval times: for men, sleeping in pairs means security like in times of sleeping in a group. He is reacting less sensitively on movements of the person lying beside him, he is missing the sensitivity of women — women always had to react on the needs of their children.
Scientists of the University of Vienna discovered a further difference in the sleep of men and women: the inner clock of male test persons responded less strongly on surrounding stimuli than the inner clock of women. For example: they tested both groups if and in case if yes how strong the inner clock is changing on working days resp. on days off. The result: with women, the oscillation of the inner clock depending on working day or day off was significantly more pronounced than the oscillation of the inner clock of men.
Both explanations for the fact that men are not waking up during the night that often and that they are feeling more relaxed and more alert in the morning. But, one thing applies to both sexes: due to its relaxing effect, sexual intercourse is having a positive effect on women as well as on men.
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