Women who've used hormonal birth control, did you notice this affected your sex drive overall?
- Increased it2.4%
- No change/mixed6.2%
- Decreased it11.1%
- Never used BC/not woman80.3%
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I think my ex gf's switch to birth control contributed to our breakup. Her personality seemed altered.
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I can't really answer this question, as I started using hormonal birth control before I was sexually active. (I was about 15 when I first started taking the pill, but was only sexually active two years later.)
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I started taking it at 23 when I already had a sex life and definitely felt a negative difference. I felt abnormally « smooth » emotionally, passionless. When I told my gynecologist about it she laughed at me and told me it was « in my head » (stopped seeing her after that)
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Didn't really notice a change. Though when I took ovidrel... DAMN talk about increased sex drive for that window. And then there was birth, itself... Kind of evened things out a bit actually, but still more noticeable than any pills.
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I've been on the pill since my early 20ies and my sex drive was really high anyway (less now as I'm older and more stressed). would have been a real adventure if it had been even more without the pill 😅
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are you specifically interested in the experiences of women who are on birth control or is that shorthand for people who menstruate?
asking to not mess up your poll, I'm trans masc & my IUD (hormonal but significantly less and more localized than the pill) slightly increased it
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Hiring! I have pcos so my BC is very high estrogen and it impacted my sex drive severely. I'm hardly in the mood, but my hubby and I still get it on because I do enjoy it in the moment! Its just the want isn't there
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I was on the pill for 5 years and in that time my sex drive went from insane to 0.
I know it was 100% the pill because after I stopped taking it I had an insane rebound of my sex drive and experienced what I call basically a second puberty.
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I've been on three different kinds of the pill, and had an IUD for years now. Birth control has never affected my sex drive at all, in either direction. Anti-depressants, on the other hand...