I've always experienced a heightened sense of smell immediately after orgasm, and I know that's due to increased blood flow to the nasal membranes. I've never heard of someone experiencing post-orgasm deafness, but it would make sense that your hearing might also be affected by increased blood-flow to your brain.
We should all be able to hear every beat of our hearts, but that noise is automatically filtered out by our brains. It would make sense if that filter mechanism was thrown completely thrown out of whack if a drastically increased heart rate made blood roar through our ears, but that suddenly faded away.
There doesn't seem to be any firm explanation of what's going on, but here's an article where an ENT surgeon considers some possibilities:
Is it normal if my ears ring after masturbating?
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I've always experienced a heightened sense of smell immediately after orgasm, and I know that's due to increased blood flow to the nasal membranes. I've never heard of someone experiencing post-orgasm deafness, but it would make sense that your hearing might also be affected by increased blood-flow to your brain.
We should all be able to hear every beat of our hearts, but that noise is automatically filtered out by our brains. It would make sense if that filter mechanism was thrown completely thrown out of whack if a drastically increased heart rate made blood roar through our ears, but that suddenly faded away.
There doesn't seem to be any firm explanation of what's going on, but here's an article where an ENT surgeon considers some possibilities:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/xye9xz/science-explains-why-you-sometimes-cant-hear-after-you-orgasm