Death after Sexual Intercourse

Table 1

Overview on stages of the sexual cycle [3, 13].

Stage	Explanation	Body’s response
1	Excitement (initial state of arousal)	Increases in muscular tone, heart rate, and blood pressure
2	Plateau (full arousal immediately preceding orgasm)	Further increases in muscular tone, heart rate, and blood pressure and increased relative vascular resistance
3	Orgasm	Associated with muscle spasms, massive elevation of heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate
4	Resolution	Normalization of physical function