This study suggests that reduced sex drive is the most common side effect, but it impacts about 1/10. I can find no evidence that it is permanent (though see comments below!); stopping the drug should return most folks to normal.

Compare this treatment to incarceration: would you prefer to be less horny and free, or in jail? See also the patient reports in the article, talking about finally having some control in their lives.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

You can be both horny and impotent at the same time. I'd still prefer to be free, of course.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I can find no evidence that it is permanent; stopping the drug should return most folks to normal.

Most, but not all: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12991-023-00447-0

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

As someone who's battled chronic depression since 1989, I can tell you that of all the antidepressants I have tried (just about all of them) only one triggered erectile dysfunction and it went away once I stopped taking the pill. None reduced my sexual appetite, some actually increased it (one dramatically). The most common sexual side effect I found was difficulty climaxing, which combined with increased sexual appetite made for some extended and amazing sex.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scientists can’t rule out that a soft pp might be the main causal variable

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

The "can't rule out" fallacy, often referred to as the appeal to ignorance, occurs when someone argues that a lack of evidence against a claim is taken as evidence for its truth. This fallacy suggests that if something cannot be disproven, it must be true, which is a flawed way of reasoning.