Distinctions: What is "Libido" vs "Sex Drive"

[traveling-man]

I posted this a while back when I was thinking about it also …

High T, FSH, SHBG, Low E2 No Libido. My Lab Results (pellets)

I never really considered the difference between “libido” and “arousal”. It is an interesting distinction and I’m trying to determine how this affects my “symptoms”. Because using these definitions, my “libido” has never changed – I think about sex the same now as I did years before. Sexual desire (also known as ‘sex drive’ or ‘libido’) is controlled by the brain. It is the biological, driving force that makes us think about sex and behave sexually. Sexual arousal (being ‘turned on’) invo…