Viagra and Cialis worked when I was younger and probably would work still. But they're not covered by Medicare-D and are very expensive to purchase.

Not wholly off the table, though, if we get lucky and find a source.

Danger noodle

as another trans guy i can confirm, T took my libido from "mid, horny sometimes" to "I GET HORNY EVERY DAY AND IF I DON'T FIX IT I LITERALLY CANNOT FOCUS", in the span of like, no time, literally started with the first or injection

I would be fascinated to talk to this person. As a straight cis male dude guy, this is just all day, every day. It'd be like hearing someone describe the sun who's never been outside before in their whole life.

thanks for sharing; it's wildly interesting! he's one of a small number of people who can speak for two different modes of physical/hormonal makeup.

it's not exactly the same as a full understanding but my transmasc friends labido in the first year of T was much worse than my first year of E (so far atleast).

The labido of a teenage boy is fucking INTENSE, all they do is think with their dick (well not in my friends case lol). However my emotion regulation is WAYYYY worse than his was, I am a blob of emotionally distraught tears.

neither of us would get off HRT for the world though.

yeah but now i have two people with reference points to both feminine and masculine hormonal makeup that agree with my assumption so I'm gonna believe them more...

... not because they have unique perspectives but because they reaffirm my previously held beliefs

i actually wasn't talking about men vs women; i was talking about having a dick vs not, specifically because of having to deal with a boner during the day... but apparently some trans people who start taking T can get overwhelmed with how much it horns them up so i don't know; maybe it's anecdotally true even.

other than that I've always believed it's (at least mostly) social conditioning though.

edit: i got too excited to clarify that i forgot to check your link before i responded. i gotta say it's not really challenging the idea (that I wasn't trying to suggest originally).

first of all it says

On average, men have higher sex drives, but about a third of women have a higher sex drive than the average male.

so it's already suggesting that it's not a myth.

second of all the way it phrases things seems to target people who don't understand what averages are: it gives as an example on average men are taller but there are women who are taller than men. well duh... that's how averages vs exceptions work. that doesn't mean "neither is taller, it's totally random" it still means men are taller on average.

of course if the rates it gives are true, the exception being a third of women is quite significant.

The researchers propose to measure affect in terms of how easily you get aroused when faced with a sexual stimulus or situation. Likewise, behavior involves the frequency of sexual acts. And finally, cognition has to do with how often you think about sex.

that's actually really interesting that there's different categories of sex drives

happy birthday, ya horndog