Is “Post-Nut Clarity” a Real Thing?

The term “post-nut clarity” is often said to have been coined by Alex Cooper on her podcast, Call Her Daddy, in 2018. Many outlets have reported this as a fact. However, doing some real journalism—an advanced search of X (formerly Twitter)—shows that it dates from at least 2012, when one user, @APthe___, posted about it three times in the span of three minutes.

Regardless of its origin, the idea that orgasms lead to clearer thinking is popular, as evinced by a Drake bar from “Rich Baby Daddy,” a track on his latest album: “I swear, poppin’ my shit come with consequences /Post-nut clarity, I came to my senses.” That followed an earlier entry in the post-nut clarity canon from Lil Wayne, “As soon as I come, I come to my senses”—a line often misattributed to The Weeknd, since he tweeted it once. The idea of using an orgasm to think more clearly was perhaps most famously used in Something About Mary, when one character advises a pre-date jerk off: “The most honest moment in a man’s life are the few minutes after he’s blown his load—now that is a medical fact,” he said.

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Urologist Fenwa Famakinwa Milhouse, star of TLC’s Dr. Down Below, told me that it is not a medical fact. “Post-nut clarity is obviously a colloquial term,” she said. “This is not a medical term. There is no medical or neurological term equivalent.” Regardless, she—and every other expert I spoke to—was very open to the idea of it existing. And there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence of people achieving percipience after an orgasm: I spoke to multiple men about post-nut clarity and if they’d experienced it; almost everyone said they had.

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Actually defining post-nut clarity, however, is a little thornier, because what people actually mean when they say it varies. There seem to be, broadly speaking, two understandings. The first is the most faithful to the term’s origins: the idea of an “aha” moment post-orgasm. The realization can be positive or negative, but basically you reach orgasm and then reach enlightenment—or at least your brain clears a bit. Brandon, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, said as much: “I just feel like if you’re masturbating, once the deed is done it’s like, Cool, I can move on with my day. Let me go write this email.”

However, people often conflate this with a similar, perhaps overlapping, feeling of shame after orgasming—especially after masturbating. (To get even more in the weeds, this is often lumped with the actual scientific concept of postcoital dysphoria, which is a feeling of sadness, anxiety, or irritability after sex). If you ask people about post-nut clarity, they often talk about this sense of mortification.

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