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writes: Hi. I'm 23, physically fit, and healthy. I started taking a drug a couple months ago, and one of the side effects is reduced sex drive. Being a young man I thought that would suck, but to my surprise it's actually pretty good. Anyway I had my heart broke a few months ago, and I wanna stay out of relationships for a while. i don't like having sex outside of commited relationships, so i'm wondering if there are anymore drugs i could take to diminish my sex drive further, or eliminate it altogether. Anyone know of anything?
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reader, anonymous, writes (1 December 2010): What are you taking the drug for if you don't mind me asking?
The only ones I know that do that are antidepressants.
I would speak to your doctor about other side effects of this drug if you haven't already.
As for chemically altering your sex drive on purpose, don't do it.
Don't take any drug for something you should learn to do on willpower alone. Getting rid of your sex drive only helps with sexual urges in the short term, essentially what you're proposing is taking a drug to help you get over your break up by getting rid of your libido. That's not a good thing, you'll become dependent on it and becoming dependent on a drug to fix your life is not a good thing if it's not a medical necessity.
No offence but you're looking for an easy way out, you're looking for a pill to fix your problems but all it will do is hide them from view for a while. The problem will still exist because it's an emotional state not a physical problem. Plus overuse of this drug could cause serious damage. A chemical short cut isn't actually a short cut at all, it's a delay, not a solution.
My advice is to suck it up, we all have a hard time when we break up but you have to deal with that the hard way or you won't be able to do it in the future. Learn to cope with these things the same way most of us do, by just taking your time and staying away from dating for a while until you're ready.
If you're not into casual encounters the don't have any, if you somehow can't help yourself then you need to find a way of learning how.
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reader, YouWish  +, writes (1 December 2010):
 Well, there's chemical castration, where you take drugs to drop your sex drive to about nothing and is reversible, but why do you want that to happen?
If you had your heart broken, that's no reason to trash your sex drive! You need to heal from your broken heart, and you need all of your senses to do it!
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