Sex + A Nap = The Snap!
Cosmopolitan|May 2017

An Afternoon Quickie Followed by a Snooze? It’s a Health-boosting, Cosmo-approved Combo.

Danielle Kam
Sex + A Nap = The Snap!

LEAVE IT TO country music star Carrie Underwood to combine the two best damn things that go down in the bedroom—sex and napping—into the latest pleasure-seeking trend: the Snap! (At least, that’s what she coined it in a recent interview with E!) Not only does this back-to-back lazy Sunday (or any day) activity sound ideal, but science proves it has some mind-body benefits.

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