Recently, a research team at Wake Forest University School of Medicine conducted a study involving 68 young adults with the open goal of establishing a relationship between self-reported sexual desire and migraine. Each participant reported the level of sexual desire by completing a 14-item questionnaire. At the same time, the participants were asked to conclude whether their headache is migraine or tension.
Although the usual excuse for not having sex is a stubborn headache, the result of the study showed without a doubt that migraine sufferers estimate a higher level of sexual desire. This finding confirms a complex relationship between headache and sexual activity, supporting suspicions that both migraine headaches and sexual desire are influenced by the same brain chemical.
This brain chemical appears to be serotonin, which also plays a role in depressive conditions. As previous research has linked the level of serotonin to premature ejaculation, scientists are interested in exploring whether all the phenomena are actually related.
Migraine is a very common condition with an incidence of 5.7 percent in men and 17.6 percent in women. At the same time, premature ejaculation is estimated to cause problems for 30 percent of men of all age groups. Very interesting is that during the study, the reported sexual desire of men was 24 percent higher than that of women.