What impact does HRT have on sex ?

1. Dr Camiel Welling told us that hormones are important and they can only be understood if we understand sexual health and sexual life as well. If hormones are so important to our sexual health and our life then how does it affect our sexual life, exactly?
   Sexual Life and HRT
   Dr Camiel tells us that HRT affects our sexual life. As soon as we start taking hormones. While HRT affects our body and brings about changes, it also impacts your DESIRE. 

Desire is an important impact of hormones especially for transfeminine people.
How does HRT affect transfeminine people?
The important fact about HRT for transwomen or transfeminine people as well as non-binary people who are interested in taking feminizing- HRT  there are a lot of effects that happen over the body but what you feel about your body, what you feel as a person, as well as how you feel sexually is also changing. There is an impact on your sexual life, which is affected by your body. When Dr Camiel tries to explain these changes in the body, as to what is happening then he talks about desire first. 

What does this do to your daily desires?
So what happens is that when you are born with masculine anatomy or when your body produces testosterone then you get used to feeling desire. For example, when you wake up you often have an erection and these hints of being turned on aren’t present in other parts of the body. So when we start taking feminizing hormones erections come down a lot, so the reminders that you are turned on also become less. Women who have had vaginoplasty or even cis-women only find out that they are turned on through really subtle cues. Sometimes it is because of lubrication that one finds out that they are turned on and that they want to have sex. But these aren’t like erections that you can spot them and you can understand that you are turned on.
Are hormones making my desire less?
When we start taking hormones if our erections start getting less frequent so we stop getting obvious reminders about being turned on. This makes us think that we are getting turned on less often and our body thinks that was a good thing. We become less aware of being turned on. So to realise that you are turned on you have to start to think about sex more actively. “I want to do this right now”, with your partner or someone you engage in sex with. So desire starts looking different and people think a lot of the time. And people start talking about libido, and how men and people with male hormones get turned on more than women and people with female hormones. This is because you don’t have the alarm bell as a reminder anymore about being turned on. When the erections are becoming less frequent then it is a sign of that alarm bell not being as reliable anymore. But when it doesn’t happen we start thinking that I am no longer turned on but desire does not work this way. Desire is a slow process where not only your body but also your mind is ready for it. So if you are used to having reminders for your erections being what you would need to know you want to have sex then the absence of it will be difficult to understand. But maybe we will take a longer time to get into the mood and be aroused and get ready for sex. So this is something that both cis and trans women must know.