Is it possible to lower your libido?

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VladG

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration


Here's a place for you to start. A bunch of stuff can chemically lower libido by basically messing with your hormones. Depo-Provera in particular is very effective, it can pretty much kill sex drive in men (they used to use it on sex offenders). Though obviously you shouldn't take anything without consulting a doctor.



I'd recommend masturbation. As often as you feel like (and time/place permits). It's healthy, fun, relaxing and a great way to waste time. It won't exactly lower your libido much, but it will get your mind off sex for a while. Personally, I'd say enjoy your sex drive while it lasts, and make the most of it, you're more likely to regret not having it later.




As for the bonus question... I don't think I'd want to change anything. I have a pretty active libido as far as I can tell, I usually masturbate at least once a day regardless of sexual activity, and I'm always ready to go but it doesn't really consume my mind. As I've said, I like to enjoy my sex drive while it lasts.
 

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If I could turn my libido on and off at will (as well as the ability to change between sexualities, as a bonus), that?d be great. I mean, I?m a seventeen-year-old boy and the best I can do whenever I get really horny is pull off to some porn to get some relief, before I bone up the next day looking at girls at school all over again (and, obviously, I can?t pull off then). And I have little to no chance of getting a girlfriend currently with my combination of poor looks, revolting personality, and multitude of personal problems (you know the saying: ?You have to learn to love yourself before others can love you?).

I did hear that it?s simply trying to fill that void with something else, like a hobby, since if you get bored a lot, your mind tends to drift into thinking more about sex. That?s why I?ve just been trying to save up money to buy more Death Note manga volumes (although I know the whole story anyway from the anime, I know some things are different or changed in the manga) as an effective distraction; plus, I?ll need something to keep me from going crazy over the half term, since I won?t have to procrastinate over revising because my exams for the year will be over by then. But when I finish that?then I?ll be bored again and not even video games can keep my interest now that I?m so depressed.

You know, I thought about how to get a stronger orgasm, so the feeling afterwards would perhaps last for a longer time, but whatever masturbation method I try (with limits, of course; someone suggested something to do with urine, and I was like, ?Ugh, no?), it?s pretty much the same result (or, with the method I recently tried, a marginally greater pleasure) anyway. And besides, sometimes I?m horny and I just can?t be bothered to pull off because I?m often tired when I return home from school, I have to make sure that no-one comes in, I have to get the right lubricant, etc?

nomzy said:
This is probably going to sound like an odd suggestion but a lot of people apparently stopped masturbating or at least had a lower desire to after reading Katawa Shoujo.
Although this is according to some picture I saw on 4chan so I can't vouch for how accurate it is.
So if you havent done that go try it.
Didn't happen to me but everyone is different I suppose.
If anything, that would make someone bone up even more, since despite them being disabled...anime schoolgirls...yeahhhhh.

martyrdrebel27 said:
don't take this as an attack, but your apparent lack of libido is either a bucketload of denial that you've convinced yourself is true for whatever reasons, or your brain is wired wrong. denying yourself sex is like denying yourself food, air, water... its hardwired into our brains and an essential part of the human experience. to deny yourself sex is to deny your humanity.

now there was a nugget in your comment that made me think it could be something else entirely... is your problem perhaps with our oversexualized culture and peoples recklessness with it? i'm all for sex being between two people who deeply love each other, and hate how casually people throw it around these days. do you think if you found love, you'd wanna have sex? have you ever been aroused? i just feel like there's a part of this that i can't wrap my head around.

Edit: sorry ivan, meant to quote ashadowpie
I don't mean to speak on behalf of them, but isn't that pretty offensive to asexuals? Some people just...aren't interested in sex. It's not that they can't have sexual pleasure; it's just that they're not sexually attracted to men, women, or anything inside or outside. Some can still feel romantic or emotional attraction, just like you can feel something for your siblings or a friend without sexual arousal, and some enjoy sex only when it's to satisfy their partner.

So I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with it. That kind of mindset can also lead people to think, "Oh, maybe you're just gay in denial" or "you should get yourself checked out; everyone should want sex". It's just different, is all. Remember, as recent as fifty years ago, homosexuality was still classed as a disorder, and now, in most civilised areas around the world, it's classed as just as much of a healthy sexuality as heterosexuality, the societal norm which seems to have been even more hammered into our system through media where the guy "gets the girl" at the end of the film.
 

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If you're actually interested, meditation kills sex drive if you do it enough. Try out some Vipassana or other mindfulness stuff. I am always super horny, but I stayed at a monastery when I was younger and after about a week of the routine it didn't bother me at all.
 

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Screw all these complicated solutions.

I've got a very simple one.

1. Get a bike, male model (high bar).
2. Cycle as fast as you can whilst sitting on the very tip of your seat.
3. Completely relax your legs before braking as hard as you can.
4. ???
5. Profit.

Alternatives include doing split jumps in balance beam gymnastic without any experience among many other things.

Repeat daily for best effects.

Long-term side-effect may include those similar to castration though.
 

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Train yourself to stop masturbating to porn. It's normal to want sex, but when you think about it everyday, all you're doing is setting yourself up to be with someone else who thinks about it everyday and wants it like you want it.
Those chances are very slim.

Masturbation only increases your desire, and consequently your frustration. It solves nothing.

Also, there may be something else in your life going on that's making you run to sexual fantasy.
It's a very alluring place to be, but it's dangerous to be thinking that way all the time.

Hang in there. You can train your brain when it comes to sexual response.
 

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Sealpower said:
I have heard that overconsumption of salmiak, might have that effect. At least some scientist claimed that a few years ago.

I have tried and I think it works (temporary) but that might just be the mental side of it.


(salmiak would be the main ingredient of salty liquorice for you non-scandinavian people)
Sadly, I fucking hate the flavour of Salmiak. I'd end up just vomiting it all back up, but it's good to know.

OT: I'd love to get rid of my libido. Considered it repeatedly in the past. Just wastes my goddamn time. Tried physical excercise (gym, jogging, swimming), because that supposedly diverts your energy, but I just wanted to masturbate as soon as I was done. I tried eating less meat, which was suggested to me in the past, but that accomplished nothing other than making me want to eat steak while masturbating.

I absolutely refuse to go on antidepressants, because those are worse than being horny all the time. Chemical castration is, to the best of my knowledge, only available in the form of CPA in Holland. A quick look at the side effects and withdrawal symptoms will tell you why I refuse those as well. Plus, I probably couldn't afford it.
 

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SwimmingRock said:
I tried eating less meat, which was suggested to me in the past, but that accomplished nothing other than making me want to eat steak while masturbating.
That reminded me of the time my friend told me about a rock star or something whose girlfriend had a fetish for him drizzling steak juice on her vagina and him licking it out.
 

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thaluikhain said:
JoJo said:
Besides Xan, there's over three billion females in this world, I'm sure one is them is right for you!
Yeah, Xan, "hang in there, you'll find someone". Also, I can say this sort of insufferable platitude because you don't know where I live.
Nah I give up, there's no point in me denying it. It's causing depression and is probably the reason my breakfast was alcoholic.
 

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Xan Krieger said:
thaluikhain said:
JoJo said:
Besides Xan, there's over three billion females in this world, I'm sure one is them is right for you!
Yeah, Xan, "hang in there, you'll find someone". Also, I can say this sort of insufferable platitude because you don't know where I live.
Nah I give up, there's no point in me denying it. It's causing depression and is probably the reason my breakfast was alcoholic.
I feel you there. In my worst "forever alone" depressions, I was going through a bottle a day. Basically, my day was wake up -> go to work -> go home -> drink. Honestly, main reason I stopped that is because I saw what alcohol did to my father and I know how hard it was helping him get his shit back together. That scares me more than being lonely.

And, yeah, I want to punch everybody who tells me "you'll find the right person for you someday" or some such bullshit. Plenty of people die alone and miserable. Pulling out some useless numbers and statistics don't mean dick to an individual.
 

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MrStab said:
Eat a raw potato


I have no problem with my libido, as I'm the kind of ass that would be too proud to change anything negative about himself, but it seriously causes me no problems.
I think it's lower than average. Kinda helpful since I'm long runningly single, so I don't end up sexually frustrated.
 

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Relish in Chaos said:
I don't mean to speak on behalf of them, but isn't that pretty offensive to asexuals? Some people just...aren't interested in sex. It's not that they can't have sexual pleasure; it's just that they're not sexually attracted to men, women, or anything inside or outside. Some can still feel romantic or emotional attraction, just like you can feel something for your siblings or a friend without sexual arousal, and some enjoy sex only when it's to satisfy their partner.

So I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with it. That kind of mindset can also lead people to think, "Oh, maybe you're just gay in denial" or "you should get yourself checked out; everyone should want sex". It's just different, is all. Remember, as recent as fifty years ago, homosexuality was still classed as a disorder, and now, in most civilised areas around the world, it's classed as just as much of a healthy sexuality as heterosexuality, the societal norm which seems to have been even more hammered into our system through media where the guy "gets the girl" at the end of the film.
okay, what i'm about to say here is going to be taken wrong, some people are gonna probably have unkind words to say, but if so, its simply because they either don't understand MY point or they don't understand humanity's point. but here goes...

being gay or asexual IS a disorder. but it's not wrong. let me explain. we are animals, an our brian, whether we like it or not, is wired to make us want to have sex with the opposite gender for the purpose of survival of the species. but the human body and brain is unfathomably complex, and sometimes it doesnt work the way the blueprint laid out. so when someone's brain is not functioning that way, its disordered. THAT IS NOT TO SAY HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG. far from it, it's just a genetic trait. tommy has astigmatism, johnny has a cleft pallet, and billy wants to bang tommy and johnny. it's just a variation from what the blueprint intended.
 

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to continue my point, because the xbox browser crashes if you type too much...

the problem people have with accepting the fact that homosexuality or asexuality is a genetic defect usually comes in one of two flavors.

1. they fear that recognizing the fact that its a genetic defect means that we should or could try to treat or cure it. and there is some validity to that fear. i dont wanna research into that field, because despite my earlier comparisons to genetic defects, a person's sexuality isnt something that needs cured. it's a part of their identity that ideally causes them no negative effects in their life. some would argue we owe it to our species to "cure" it, but i'd say earth is kinda at capacity already, so on a macrocosmic scale, you know, the BIG PICTURE, i don't think that homo- or asexuality is causing any problems in our long term survival.

more troubling is...

2. people who REFUSE to acknowledge that people can be born gay. there are people who insist its a choice, or that its because they were molested as children... i don't like these people, and their ignorance deserves a throat-punch.
 

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Play Spec Ops The Line, Dark Souls, Condemned and Silent Hill 2 all in a row, then watch Die Hard, The Thing, Evil Dead 2, Reservoir Dogs and Donnie Darko back-to-back. If you still want to think about sex all the time after that then you, sir, have no soul. Alternatively, wear really tight around the crotch, loose around the knew downward trousers it on a 5 hour walk with an attractive girl and her boyfriend, one hour of which you spend pushing them on a swing, because a similar experience destroyed my libido 'til I saw those naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson.

I have the problem of being perpetually horny sometimes, it's definitely frustrating when your friends are starting to have it off while you're stuck single with a hard drive full of porn, but who cares.

Xan Krieger said:
Personally I'd love to kill my sex drive, I hate the fact that I love women but none will ever love me so I'd pay for something that could remove my libido.
Ah, dude, you'll meet someone. She may not speak the same language, and you may only be in the same country for a few months before you wonder everyday whether she's gone for good... But they're out there.
 

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SwimmingRock said:
Sadly, I fucking hate the flavour of Salmiak. I'd end up just vomiting it all back up, but it's good to know.
Yeah, it's certainly not for everyone. Wouldn't call it a favourite myself but if there isn't any other candy around I'll eat it... lot's of it.
 

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martyrdrebel27 said:
2. people who REFUSE to acknowledge that people can be born gay. there are people who insist its a choice, or that its because they were molested as children... i don't like these people, and their ignorance deserves a throat-punch.
You might need to check the facts yourself, while there's strong evidence that there are genetic factors which increase the chances of an individual having a homosexual orientation in adulthood, there's no proof that people are actually born gay. In fact, twin studies[footnote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_sexual_orientation#Twin_studies[/footnote] have shown that there is at the most a 50% concordance for homosexuality between identical twins, you would think that figure would be 100% if people were born with their sexuality given identical twins share the same genes and womb.
 

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JoJo said:
martyrdrebel27 said:
2. people who REFUSE to acknowledge that people can be born gay. there are people who insist its a choice, or that its because they were molested as children... i don't like these people, and their ignorance deserves a throat-punch.
You might need to check the facts yourself, while there's strong evidence that there are genetic factors which increase the chances of an individual having a homosexual orientation in adulthood, there's no proof that people are actually born gay. In fact, twin studies[footnote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_sexual_orientation#Twin_studies[/footnote] have shown that there is at the most a 50% concordance for homosexuality between identical twins, you would think that figure would be 100% if people were born with their sexuality given identical twins share the same genes and womb.
okay, well you're just arguing semantics, so let me be more clear on what I was trying to say.

2. people who REFUSE to acknowledge that being gay is not a choice.

I don't begrudge you the semantics, but my point wasn't when the gay happened, just that it wasn't a choice made by the individual.
 

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krazykidd said:
So sex thread again . But not so much . Iv'e tried looking on the internet ( although not too hard ) about lowering someones libido . And all i got is people asking how to increase ones sex drive . Great! So since i know people are the escapists are smart ( and sometimes weird ) i bring the question to you . Is it possible to lower your libido .

You see , i think about sex . A lot . Too much . And it does get quite bothersome . I would like to find a way ( without having to cut my penis off ) to lower my sex drive/will to have sex all the damn time . I spend most of my day thinking about sex , and people i want to have sex with . I want this to stop . I could wait for nature to take it's course and get old and stop caring . But i'm an impatient man . If i could i would become Asexual ( which ,unfortunatly ,is impossible since Asexuality is not a choice .... I think ). So i'm looking for outside sources to lower my sex drive. To like nonexistant . Is this possible ? There are many ways to increase a persons sex drive , but are there any ways to reduce it ?

Bonus question : would you personally ever want reduce your libido? Apparently sex is the big thing in society and most people would want to increase it , but what about reducing it ?
Two questions which i feel someone on this thread should have asked you by now:

1) How old are you? If you're a young teen i wouldn't worry because having a strong sex drive is quite normal. However, If your sex drive hasn't calmed down at all since your more hormonal years then all i can suggest is that you masturbate more often.

2)What about environmental factors? Do you spend a lot of time in the company of very attractive women? If so and you really want to lower your libido then i suggest spending less time in the company of women- but i'd only recommend doing that if more frequent masturbation isn't working.