Andrew Huberman· PhD
Whether cannabis potently increases or potentially decreases sexual arousal depends on your pre-intake prolactin levels (regardless if you are male or female).
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Whether cannabis potently increases or potentially decreases sexual arousal depends on your pre-intake prolactin levels (regardless if you are male or female).
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And because, once again, it will point to the fact that the effects of cannabis on different individuals can be highly divergent, meaning in one set of individuals, cannabis will make them far less anxious. The same can be said also of sexual activity.
About half of people that use cannabis report it as an aphrodisiac. It makes them want to have sexual intercourse more than if they don't use cannabis. And for the other half, it actually has the opposite effect by way of an influence on a hormone called prolactin, which suppresses the dopamine system, the testosterone, and the estrogenic system.