Libido reducing

[justwokeup]

Do we need some libido reducing pills on the market? I think many would benefit. What do you think?

 

[Radrook]

Do we need some libido reducing pills on the market? I think many would benefit. What do you think?

They could be very useful for those tormented by desire and who have no unsinful way out of the dilemma.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Do we need some libido reducing pills on the market? I think many would benefit. What do you think?

Never heard of it. Sounds a little scary, but please post a link to it. If it's healthy, it sounds promising, to single Christian men especially.

 

[Dave-W]

Never heard of it. Sounds a little scary, but please post a link to it. If it's healthy, it sounds promising, to single Christian men especially.

Many psychotropic and depression drugs have "sexual side effects" listed. For most people that means a reduction or elimination of libido. However there are some (maybe 1 in 100) that it has the exact opposite effect: it runs libido right thru the roof.

But I do not think the world (where sexuality is king) would ever consider researching and marketing such a drug. The single christian market is too small to make any kind of pay-back feasible.

The only advice Paul gives for that is to get married: "It is better to marry than to burn." 1 Cor 7.9 Not "get more self control," or "deny the flesh." Get married.

 

[Hidden In Him]

The only advice Paul gives for that is to get married: "It is better to marry than to burn." 1 Cor 7.9 Not "get more self control," or "deny the flesh." Get married.

Or eunuch yourself (Matthew 19:12), but that would be in an extreme case, and only if one is 100% sure that's what God is calling him to. The NT teaching was, however, to bring the flesh under subjugation (1 Corinthians 9:25-27). Yet it will be a lifetime struggle if you go about it this way.

 

[GeorgeJ]

The single christian market is too small to make any kind of pay-back feasible.

That ain't the only market for that kind of drug. You forgot the "married men with menopausal wives who have lost their desire" market. I would imagine that is probably a bigger market!

 

[Dave-W]

The thing about killing your libido (which some have managed to do on their own) is that it almost never resurrects when you need it (like after you get married)

God designed it so it did NOT have an on/off switch.

 

[Dave-W]

That ain't the only market for that kind of drug. You forgot the "married men with menopausal wives who have lost their desire" market.

1 Cor 7 says it is the husband's job to keep the wife sexually satisfied and vice versa.
If she (menopausal or not) is not doing that, she is sinning. Having that available for that market is just enabling sinful behavior.

 

[Kenny'sID]

I don't think we are supposed to take pills for that, or to reduce any temptation. We were put here just as we are to see if we could deal properly so taking a pill would not be dealing with it. How bout we put everyone on Extacy so we all get along better?

To put a finer point on it, how bout a no sin pill?

If we aren't dealing with things while in our natural state, we're not dealing.

 

[GeorgeJ]

1 Cor 7 says it is the husband's job to keep the wife sexually satisfied and vice versa.
If she (menopausal or not) is not doing that, she is sinning. Having that available for that market is just enabling sinful behavior.

Buddy, it just ain't no fun if she ain't into it.....anyway, the OP didn't state "for christians only". I'm sure there are plenty of non-believers out there (who've never heard of Paul's misogynistic ways) who could benefit from it.

 

[Dave-W]

Buddy, it just ain't no fun if she ain't into it.....

Oh I know. Believe me.

 

[Poppyseed78]

This would certainly solve a lot of problems. I actually think there would be a big enough market for this to make it profitable.

 

[bhsmte]

Do we need some libido reducing pills on the market? I think many would benefit. What do you think?

Why would you want to alter normal human physiology?

 

[Radrook]

This would certainly solve a lot of problems. I actually think there would be a big enough market for this to make it profitable.

I would have gladly taken it when I was 22 years old, celibate, totally dedicated to do God's will, with no immediate unsinful way to to attain sexual relief and packed daily on my way to work in the NY subway train like a sardine among a host of hot-to-trot mini-skirted women,.

 

[bhsmte]

Needing to take drugs to abide by god's will, just seems a little off to me.

 

[justwokeup]

You made me think. I like things as God created them. But
I think it is odd, so many other things being tampered and manipulated, that we do not have these kinds of drugs at hand, except for the pets maybe. They could easily develop pills or herbs that could be used depending on the lifesituation. Stimulating drugs we do have and that does not seem to be a problem.

 

[jayem]

Just get married for 5 years or so. Everybody knows the way not to have sex is to be married.

 

[Paradoxum]

Why? What good does it do?

 

[Tanj]

There's already a number of anaphrodisiac drugs available, including alcohol and tobacco.

Anaphrodisiac - Wikipedia

 

[Dave-W]

There's already a number of anaphrodisiac drugs available, including alcohol and tobacco.

Anaphrodisiac - Wikipedia

Great - you can struggle with sinning over your sex drive or you can sin by drinking and smoking.