Sex Before Bed Can Nearly Double Your REM Sleep, Study Reveals

Sex Before Bed Can Nearly Double Your REM Sleep, Study Reveals

REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) is seen as the most important stage of our sleep cycle as it stimulates areas of the brain essential for learning and memory. REM should make up around 23% of our sleep.

Intrigued to find out if sex can impact sleep cycles, experts at TheDozyOwl.co.uk conducted a study looking into the impact of different sex positions on our REM sleep. 1,652 participants were asked to wear a sleep monitor to bed after having sex in one designated position. Participants tried out each of the chosen twenty-five popular positions over a three month period, revealing the sex positions that improve our REM sleep the most.*

Sex Positions that Increase REM the Most:

TheDozyOwl.co.uk found that having sex before bed can increase REM sleep by an average of 8%, with men seeing a 12% average increase, whilst women only see a 2% average increase. Alex Ion, expert at TheDozyOwl.co.uk contributes this to “women being more mentally stimulated during intercourse than men who are more physically stimulated. Women, are therefore more likely to be alert after sex, whereas men are typically tired after ejaculation.”

Rank	Sex Position	Average REM of Male Participants After Sex  (%)	Average REM of Female Participants After Sex  (%)	Total Average REM After Sex (%)	Percentage Increase from Average REM  (23%)
1	Doggy Style	35	30	33	43
2	Lotus	33	31	32	39
3	Eagle	36	26	31	35
4	The Bridge	32	28	30	30
5	Cowgirl	32	25	29	26
6	Flatiron	31	26	29	26
7	The Caboose	26	33	28	22
8	69	27	27	27	17
9	Leap Frog	31	22	27	17
10	G-Whiz	30	21	26	13

TheDozyOwl.co.uk can reveal that doggy styleis the sex position that will increase your REM sleep the most. After doing doggy before bed, REM contributed to 33% of participants sleep score which is a 43% increasefrom the average of 23% REM a night.

In second place is the lotus positionwhich has been found to increase REM sleep by an average of 39%. Surprisingly, this female dominated position seems more tiring for men who recorded on average 33% REM after intercourse, whilst women totalled only 31%.

The eagle ranks in third place, with participants seeing an average of 32% REM after intercourse – this is a 35% increase from the estimated average of 23% REM per night. The eagle is the position most likely to send your Mrs to sleep, with women seeing a 56% increase in REMthereafter– the highest across the board.

The eagle is followed by the bridge (30% increase), cowgirl(26% increase), and flatiron (26% increase)– ranking respectively fourth, fifth and sixth. The sex position that improves a man’s sleep the most iscowgirl, increasing his REM by an average of 32%.

Sex Positions that Decrease REM the Most:

Rank	Sex Position	Average REM Male Participants After Sex (%)	Average REM Female Participants After Sex (%)	Total Average REMAfter Sex %)	Percentage Decrease from Average REM (23%)
1	The corkscrew	16	18	17	26
2	Horizontal 69	16	20	18	22
3	The Spider	19	19	19	17
4	Standing sex	18	20	19	17
5	Valedictorian	18	21	20	13
6	Missionary	18	24	21	9
7	Pretzel Dip	22	21	22	4
8	Ballet Dancers	29	17	23	0
9	Spooning	28	18	23	0
10	Magic Mountain	21	24	23	0

Thecorkscrew is seemingly the most stimulating position, decreasing REM sleep by 26%,with participants getting only 17% REM on average after screwing late at night.

The corkscrew is closely followed by horizontal 69, decreasing REM sleep by an average of 22%. This lazy take on one of the most popular forms of foreplay is seemingly more mentally stimulating then the original, with men seeing anaverage of 16% REM and women seeing an average of 20%.

The spider, also known as the scissor, and standing sexfollow closely in second place with REM sleep contributing to only 19% of participants sleep, which is 17% less than average.

Valedictorian, missionaryand the pretzel dipare among the sex positions most likely to decrease your REM sleep.

*Methodology:

• Experts at thedozyowl.co.uk collected data from various sources to select 25 popular sex positions 
• 1,652 participants (826 couples: 822 men and 810 women) were sent a sleep monitor and guide for the 25 selected sex positions. Participants were asked to wear a sleep monitor to bed after having sex in one designated position for the majority of the intercourse. Study conducted over 3 months.

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