For healthy, consenting adults, sex can be great or even mind-blowing.

But getting busy with a partner can also have some legit benefits beyond our brainwaves.

Men are especially likely to zonk out because the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain responsible for interpreting and responding to new information—slows waaaay down immediately after orgasm in males.

Leitzmann MF, Platz EA, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Giovannucci E. Sexual activity and prostate cancer risk in men diagnosed at a younger age.Read on for more reasons to get it on (as if we needed ‘em)! A study on adult rats found that the sexually active rodents experienced an increase in neurons in the hippocampus—a part of the brain that stores memories—compared to their virginal rat buddies.The good feelings swirling around the brain during sexytimes are due to brain chemistry, specifically dopamine and opoid chemicals. Studies have found that regular sex can do way more than make us feel warm and fuzzy. Blood pressure reactivity to stress is better for people who recently had penile-vaginal intercourse than for people who had other or no sexual activity. Division of Pscyhology, School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK. Not only that, but researchers at the University of Amsterdam found that sexual encounters may improve people’s analytical thinking.Department of Medicine, University Hospita of North Norway. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventative Dentistry. Zinc and calcium are also ingredients in most commercially available tooth rinses.We’ll let you do the math…The link between frequent ejaculation and prostate health is still up for debate.