Pills for low libido

It may have sparked a sexual revolution, but a new study says the Pill has an ironic side-effect

126938541.jpegFriends complained of the same problems - and it was only a few years later, in a more stable relationship, that I stopped taking it and suddenly felt like myself again. I've never taken it since.

Time has proved that it wasn't just me and my friends suffering from mood swings, nausea, headaches and lowered libidos. Twenty years later, new evidence suggests that the Pill is responsible for millions of women, worldwide, experiencing a plummeting sex-drive.

In short, the Pill is a passion killer. A survey of more than 1, 000 young women at Germany's University of Heidelberg found that oral contraception dramatically reduced their levels of both desire and arousal during sex.

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More than 100million women worldwide use the contraceptive pill

Other hormonal methods, such as implants, had the same effect. Yet the researchers found that condoms and other barrier methods boosted users' levels of arousal more than those who used no contraception at all - perhaps, the scientists speculated, because of the comforting knowledge that they are protected from getting pregnant.

Yet 28 per cent of women aged 16 to 49 in the UK are on the Pill. Research suggests that at least one- sixth of those women will suffer from lowered sexual desire (or female sexual dysfunction), which means millions of women are suffering needlessly. So why is this the case?

woman and contraceptive pillTo stop ovulation, the Pill uses artificial hormones related to the sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone.

It all sounds so simple; yet increasing numbers of women are asking their GPs for alternative forms of contraception, and condoms have experienced a surge in popularity among women in long-term relationships.

Meanwhile, online chatrooms are full of young women desperately wondering what's wrong with them, and why their once-healthy libido has been lying dormant ever since they decided to take responsibility for contraception and take the Pill.

Meanwhile, those who use condoms - which have a 98 per cent success rate, compared to 99 per cent for the Pill - report no problems with libido.

The researchers believe that in preventing ovulation, the Pill also lowers testosterone - the hormone responsible for sex drive

'Agents that interfere with women's hormones may adversely affect their sexual lives, ' observed Dr Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, which published the study's findings.

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by Alenushka