# Pill-takers: is your sex drive present? (TMI)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-takers-is-your-sex-drive-present-tmi/212746 "2003-11-12T02:42:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-takers-is-your-sex-drive-present-tmi/212746/21 "2003-11-13T04:28:00Z")

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Hey, don’t you know that is how the birth control pill works? By eliminating the sex drive, a woman won’t want to have sex, thereby eliminating the possibility of pregnancy!

Seriously though, the pill has never seemed to affect me–but then again, I have been on the pill for the past 10 years, so who knows? I don’t really remember what my sex drive was like back then, I was only 17. Oh wait, it’s all coming back to me now–yeah I was horny then and remain so to this day! So no, it hasn’t hurt my sex drive. Also, I am on Ortho Tricyclen and it has never made me feel moody.

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-takers-is-your-sex-drive-present-tmi/212746/22 "2003-11-13T08:24:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by angelicate \*  
> \*\*I was on the pill a few years back, and in addition to horrible headaches, it caused my sex drive to disappear, and it hasn’t really reappeared. =\ \*\*

Frankly, it sounds like the pills weren’t the culprit, then.

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pill-takers-is-your-sex-drive-present-tmi/212746/23 "2003-11-13T11:51:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by nyctea scandiaca \*  
> **Hey, don’t you know that is how the birth control pill works? By eliminating the sex drive, a woman won’t want to have sex, thereby eliminating the possibility of pregnancy!**

Thats not the way mine worked. My worked by making my period last a whole god damn month. That meant no sex. And therefore eliminating the posibility of pregnancy.

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