How can I recover if I make an embarrassing move in bed?
It happens: You do something mortifying—maybe a move he really didn’t like or he did something you found weird—and it can be tough to get past it.

“Sometimes you’ve got to just write it off as this person and I are not going to have sex again. Other times, if it’s maybe a good friend and you decided to hook up, that’s a situation where you might be able to find a way to joke about it. But you want to make sure that they’re on the same thinking level as you first. You don’t want them thinking it was the best night of their life and you’re thinking it was horrible,” Post says.

What if after sex I decide I don’t want to see this person again?
“Let them know. Don’t just do the forget-about-it, never-call-them-again thing. Show some courtesy. You’ve been naked with this person, you know? Respect the fact that people are adults and they can handle the truth,” Post says.

What’s appropriate behavior after sex?
“You don’t want to do anything that suggests a wham-bam-thank-you-M’am, [like] turning on Sports Center right after you finish or getting up and leaving the apartment immediately afterward. Both of those things are going to signal that the act was all you were looking for and that was it,” Post says.

Just how long do you need to wait post-sex to get out of bed? Kerner elaborates:

“You definitely don’t want to interrupt the mood for the first two or three minutes after orgasm. The first three minutes are really the stay connected, stay cuddled zone, then after that you can do whatever you want,” Kerner says.

Do I have the right to spend the night after a hookup?
It may seem like a hookup qualifies you for a pillow and a fair share of his comforter, but not necessarily.