Birth control pills can affect the user's sex drive. Depending on how the hormone levels in the pill interact with your body's natural hormone levels, they can cause your sex drive to increase or decrease, both of which can be either convenient or inconvenient, depending on your situation.
But sometimes having the same sex drive 24 hours a day is inconvenient too. A high sex drive is fun when you're at home with your partner, but inconvenient when you're at work (and vice versa). Unfortunately, the way current pills work is they give you the same sex drive the whole time you're taking that particular hormone level, so it's the same for a week or three weeks or all the time depending on the kind of pill and how you're using them.
To address this, they should come up with a pill that gives your sex drive a peak and valley. They tell you on the package that your sex drive will peak X hours after you've taken the pill and bottom out Y hours afterwards, and you can time your doses accordingly so that you peak when you're home with your partner and valley when you're at work.
These wouldn't be intended to replace existing pills - you wouldn't want to lose the option of being ON for your whole honeymoon, or killing your sex drive to keep yourself for doing anything foolish after a devastating breakup. I'd just like them to exist as another option.
(Also, I wish doctors were a bit more open to patients swapping around through different pills to game the side effects in our favour. If you know from firsthand experience that a certain pill has a certain effect on your sex drive (or your acne or your weight or whatever) and you want that effect for whatever reason, I don't think you should have to go through the Spanish Inquisition with your doctor.)
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