For Most Women, the Pill Is a Good Thing

For Most Women, the Pill Is a Good Thing

For the lucky majority of women, hormonal contraception enhances china sex pill health, and most pill users have more frequent sexual thoughts and fantasies, better orgasms and more interest in having sex. Removing fear of pregnancy, cramps, PMS and heavy bleeding also goes a long way to a better sex life.

For Some Women, the Pill Is a Problem

Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Dr. Andrew Goldstein, who sees hundreds of women a year at his Center for Vulvo-Vaginal Disorders, it is now appreciated that a small but significant percentage of women on hormonal contraception not only have reduced libido but also experience painful intercourse. Dr. Goldstein observed that many young women taking low-dose birth control pills experienced symptoms normally seen only in menopausal women with low levels of estrogen, the hormone that increases sex drive and contributes to normal vaginal lubrication. Given that birth control pills contain estrogen, one would think that the pill would be a major sexual booster, but Dr. Goldstein discovered that the explanation was in the other part of the hormone cocktail that's responsible for sexual health: testosterone.

Less Testosterone, Less Libido

libigrow pills lower the amount of testosterone produced by the ovaries and increase a protein secreted by the liver known as sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG binds to testosterone and makes the molecule inactive. The higher the SHBG level, the lower the functional testosterone level. Lastly, the synthetic progesterone component in some birth control pills actually poisons the testosterone receptor if given in high doses. Since both estrogen and testosterone receptors in the vagina contribute to lubrication, it is understandable that low testosterone not only makes things drier, but also more painful, a condition known as hormonally mediated vestibulodynia. (The vestibule is the area at the opening of the vagina, anddynia is the Latin root for pain).

If that wasn't bad enough, low testosterone can also lead to fatigue, lethargy and moodiness, all symptoms that make you more likely to want to take a nap than make love.