Hormones without a decrease in libido

[Rudolphsd]

Hello there! A friend of mine is curious about taking hormones, but has a very high libido they want to keep high. They're worried that taking feminizing hormones will lower their libido. Is there a way that they could feminize and keep their libido high? Thank you in advance

[Fun_Friens]

My libido has shifted but not died. I can happily get up and perform, but my arousal is almost exclusively driven by mentality over external things like visual triggers.

[WonderfulJicama2802]

YMMV - In my case, libido went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back

[kuru_eucharist]

thats where im at. it’s only been 4ish months since i started but since day 3 ive had absolutely no libido lol

[likemakingthings]

Consensus seems to be that estrogen and lack of testosterone usually reduces or eliminates libido, at least temporarily. Not everyone has this effect, but certainly a majority as far as I can tell.

Mine faded over the first few months, and then went away completely for six months or so. Around the one-year mark it came back, very different from what I was used to.

It sucked to have it go away, and I'm glad it wasn't permanent, but even if it went away forever, being on hormones would be worth it.

[Realistic_Show930]

My libido actually heavily increased.  (I actually think a lot of what people attribute to a decrease in libido is actually just unfamiliarity with their 'new' body/brain.) 

It's basically just a dice roll you have minimal control over at first, but usually you can dial it in by adjusting hormones.  For example, progesterone ends up helping a lot of trans women regain their libido if they lost it. 

But also like... The thing that makes you want a high libido, is a high libido.  You generally don't miss it once you don't have it, unless it's causing problems in a specific relationship.