a man's role is essentially to hunt and to
protect. Once he has provided food and ensured the safety of the family/group there is little else useful for him to do, therefore he sleeps. Now, for most animals, sleep and sex are not linked in any way becausewhen you have sex you are vulnerable, your back is turned and your mind is on other things. Forinstance
our closet cousins, chimps and gorillas, have sex very quickly. Therefore, if a man feels safe and secure enough to have nice, pleasurable sex then he is also safe and secure enough to go to sleep (and of courseafter a hard day hunting and protecting he needs his sleep). Now many people say that this desire to sleep is the result of a release of various hormones during sex. However, surely those hormones are released equally when you are making love in a bed or having a quick ‘knee trembler’ in a back alley, yet I am
pretty sure no man has ever been overcome with sleepiness in the latter situation.
The same process is true with regards to eating: when you have your head stuck in a wildebeest carcass you are vulnerable, so if you are not ‘king of the jungle’ you either need take your food somewhere safe or you eat quickly. Thus, if you are in the position to be able to enjoy a nice pleasurable meal you are safe and secure enough to sleep. Similarly, if you are relaxed enough to be able to watch the game on TV,
especially if your partner has given their tacit approval that you can do so, meaning there will be no‘hassles’, it is the ideal time for a snooze.
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