This type of headache has been given many different names: benign sex For example, Paulson and Klawans described a rare type postural sexual headache after . The mean duration of severe pain in HSA is similar (30 minutes) in type 1 . What if, every time you had sex, you felt an intense pain in your head, sort of like the pain I'm experiencing now post-Glastonbury festival or the. Sexual headaches are a type of headache that occur in the skull and neck during sexual Post-orgasmic headaches associated with posture may be better attributed to a spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak. Sudden, severe headaches during sexual activity may also be caused by intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid.