How to decrease one's sex drive?

Post Reply New Topic

Some things that might work:
* Fasting, less food guess fats and proteins might the ones to stay away from.
* Avoid environments where you see people that could be attractive partners, or partners at all.
* Spend lot of time with your special interest. Goes well with avoiding environmental triggers.

I suspect the combination of pressure body contact that triggers release of oxytocin, exercise that trigger endorfines, and the brain activity that triggers seratonin together with genitalia stimulation might work as an unconscious verification that sex has been accomplished. So if you can fake these things simultaneously it might work.
(I can picture some medical student taking a shoot just before masturbation )

Saliva also contain some chemicals that tells the body what to do or not.

Personally I just masturbate if the need arise. And then get on with other tasks. Sure, the need arise within time. But masturbation is quick business.

Other than that.. use my body, it's available!

I think that there are support groups for hyper sexual women.

I am desperate. I honestly feel like I am going to cry and I never cry.

I am 24 and a year ago I broke up with my first boyfriend, since him I had sex 3 time in a year, for me is ridiculous.

I don't even know where to start. I know exactly how you feel, I have a male friend that knows about it (he is the only one, I confessed it few days ago) and he keep saying that I should just go in club and meet a guy but I am not like that. I don't want to feel this need to have sex, it is pointless. I am studying full time and working part time, I have no time for it and I waste all the afternoon trying to focus on study and not sex and research a way to stop it.

I also met a nice guy lately, I want to take things slowly cause I really like him but I really feel like I need to get laid, it is driving me crazy.

Sorry about the nonsense, I feel really stupid talking about it.

Now I have to go to work for 3 hours, teaching classes while the only think in my mind is sex. Great. It is soooo frustrating!! !! !

I've made a topic on SE:
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/quest ... ase-libido

Unfortunatelly, as the answer stays, the libido-decreasing effect of the soy is the myth. So can be with corn-flakes, tonic and other tips.

I've also find info than Coriander leaves have the libido-decreasing effect but I doubt it.

I would eagerly find some diet reducing (or, at best absulutely removing) sexual desire. The medicines - at best those that are available without recept.

I know no one is looking for a prescription solution and the only one I would confidently recommend is not a first-line option even as birth control.

This thread was comforting to find though. I use medroxyprogesterone (Depo Provera "The Shot") more to eliminate libido than eliminate ovulation and menstruation. As a medical professional I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and if there are other options out there I admire those using them.

This is the first time ever - I'm new here and new to accepting my AS - that I've ever seen anyone else express a desire to...well..be rid of desire.

I hope there is something out there that doesn't require a prescription and a hypodermic for those not comfortable with the risks and side-effects prescription options (and Med-Prog isn't the only one out there). Good Luck!

- Mally

What I hear a lot from now married men roughly my age,
is that what seems to be killing women's sex drive most effectively is a marriage with children.

umm I wish....I'm married and have kids and it's not killed my sex drive(I wish it had)

Chasteberry I heard regulates ovulation and might shorten or mess w/your period.
I've tried wellbutrin, prozac, zoloft, lexipro, and a few of them made my sex drive worse. I always seem
to have paradoxical reactions.

Oh my gosh! I thought it was just me! My sex drive is driving me crazy! It's also ruining my relationship with my fiancé. I get so frustrated when we don't have sex. It is so terrible to desire someone so much to have them roll over in bed and start snoring once his head hits the pillow. I can't talk to him because it makes it worse. I think it makes him feel inadequate. I would love to have sex 2-3 times a day I'm lucky to get it once a week. I have actually started sleeping in a separate room so at least the fact we aren't having sex isn't staring me in the face. The only solution I have is to take sleeping pills to knock me out so I cant think about it and get frustrating.

Personally I would do it every hour if I had the chance. But it's the thing with opportunity. And that kind of makes it of interest to decrease it to get focus on maths rathert than something that isn't present there and then.

Birth control did for me. I use it to treat my endometriosis and to actually INCREASE my fertility later in life when I want to have children. I'm not sexually active so I don't mind a decreased sex drive, infact, it's a little more even keel and I feel a lot less lonely and distracted by men.

I know how much people complain about that side effect, but I think its great.

Another good way to kill sex drive is whenever you have the urge for sex or to masturbate visualize this before hand. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6aPJ_jqPzk[/youtube]

the sex drive is related to your inner self. it is very strong much stronger then your body. in order to weaken it just reduce your food intake by 5 calories a day. then continue doing that u will notice that your desire for sex will decrease with time as you food intake is becoming less.

this is the basics but i have a lot of info on this if you need it.

To answer the original post the only thing that made any difference for me was age and, not to put to fine a point on it, going ahead and having fun with it during my 20s. At 33 I couldn't care less, the idea of dealing with yet another relationship, even casual, is a far more dissuasive then anything else. That's not to say the urge has faded but like aches in my knees it's become easier to live with.

To the guys who seem amazed women wouldn't like this feeling, I'll try to explain by saying there is no end. No matter how often or how much the only thing that has brought things to an "end" was physical discomfort from trying again. Regardless of apexes reached, there is no satisfaction. It may be "the only thing on a boy's mind" but a majority of men I've known, bf and friend, seem to like theory more then practical... this does not apply to all of course. I've had bf's tell me I'm too needy because they couldn't keep up, been accused of cheating because "they know how (I) am". One even time he didn't want to so much because he wanted to keep it special.

Antidepressants and other medications have to many side effects for me but I did try them. Staying single and finding unrelated distractions seems to be my cure

My ex-girlfriend was so affected by my constant need for sex that she ended up developing severe performance anxiety and stopped wanting sex altogether. In the last year of our relationship we had sex only once, and that was because she'd had a bit to drink and was more laid back than usual (excuse the pun).

I found that taking the pill did help to subdue my libido, however, side effects such as nausea and stomach bloating meant I had to stop taking it. Might work for you though.

Sorry, apparently since i'm a new user I can't include urls in my 1st five posts/1st five days of activation; BUT if you type
"Drugs occasionally mentioned in treating hypersexuality or ..." into google the first link (hawaii. edu/ hivandaids . . . .) will send you to a fairly extensive/thorough table of the medications (w/ side-effects and main issues they target) commonly prescribed to individuals suffering from hypersexuality//hypersexual-like issues in their lives.

- Cheers!