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>>11608403
>postcoital blues
That's an understatement.

Sexual cannibalism, where the female devours the male upon copulation, is common among insects, arachnids, amphipods, gastropods, and copepods.
Traumatic insemination is common among certain species of invertebrates, and involves the forced injection of sperm through a wound in the female abdominal cavity.
A species of marsupial, the quoll has mating rituals which often end in the death of the female, due to the violence engaged in during the act by the male.
The queen bee kills off her sister siblings in order to remain the unchallenged monarch, then mates with a dozen or so males who all die in the process.
In every species of octopus, both the male and female die shortly after breeding, the male from a detached tentacle which remains in the female after copulation.
The movements of the male praying mantis intensify after have its head eaten by the female, increasing the effectiveness of the delivery.
In humans, many males become utterly unattractive and useless to the female after the delivery of seminal fluid, having their livelihood all but sucked out of them in the form of alimony payments and divorce expenses, who then, losing all hope for fulfillment in life, commit suicide by various means.