Is It Wrong to Crave Sex After Losing a Child?
Okay, now we're talking about loss, we're talking about grief and we're talking about sex, and the first question I would like to answer is if it is wrong for a person to crave sex after losing a child. And maybe not even after losing a child—maybe after losing a parent. Because I've seen people who will say, “Oh, after we suffered this loss, I just wanted more sex, I just wanted sex like that.” So is it wrong?
The direct, straight answer is actually no, right? It is not wrong. You are human, and we all respond to loss, we all grieve in different ways. For some people, they may shut down completely, and it may take them almost one year to start regaining themselves. But for some others, they may crave closeness—closeness, intimate closeness—because this loss somehow reminds them of how fragile life is.
You should realise that for people who want sex during grief, it’s just a way of their body reaching for comfort. It does not necessarily mean that they are forgetting the child or the person who died, or that they are not mourning, or they are not grieving, or they are not seeing it as a big deal. It simply means, “Hey, this is how they respond,” and we all know that, we regard that. It’s not wrong if you crave sex after losing a child or losing a loved one.
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