Birth Control Pills: Further Evaluation Is Needed

While a certain study on birth control pills suggests a long-lasting negative effect on women’s sexual function, it does not, however, prove that it can cause sexual dysfunction on women who are not on the pill. But it does add to previous research findings that some birth control pills can lower a woman’s free-testosterone level. Women with low testosterone are prone to a number of health problems that includes sexual health.

According to Dr. Claudia Panzer and Dr. Irwin Godstein of Boston University Medical Center, they found significantly lower scores in the Full Scale (female sexual function test) and in the domain of sexual desire for women on oral contraceptives compared with those who had never used oral contraceptives.
There was significantly more sexual pain in the women who were taking oral contraceptives, added Panzer, who practices her profession in Denver, and Goldstein, who is editor in chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine where the study appeared.

One finding that is considered very alarming is that when these women stopped taking birth control pills they had long-lasting increases in a protein that sucks up testosterone....