How your choice of contraceptive could affect your sex drive

Many factors like age, physical and mental health are known to affect libidos of both men and women. What is not clear though is if or how birth control does. Some attribute their choice to heightened sex drive while others think it is the reason they will swear headaches and fatigues every night. Going by the Family Planning Report 2020, the uptake of modern birth control methods has surpassed the 58 per cent target set for 2020. This makes the issue of birth control and its effect on sex drive a real concern for many Kenyans. For Mary Okoth, a nurse in a city hospital, who swears by the hormonal implant, her sex life couldn’t be better.