Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

DISPELLING MYTH WITHIN A MYTH: LIBIDO is NOT a part of the human body!

29 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Anne Truong MD (uploaded Aug 29, 2022) discussing the nature of libido. The speakers contrast Freud’s framing of libido as an innate drive (like hunger or thirst) with more recent views that sex/libido is not an essential survival need for most people; the dialogue notes that while some individuals feel strongly, lack of sex typically is not lethal. The excerpt situates libido as a psychological/social phenomenon rather than a universal biological survival drive.

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So is. So we touch upon desire and libido then. So is this when you're saying design libido, are we. Is it something somewhat the same or.
Yeah, they kind of talk about it the same thing. You know, the person who really brought forth libido as a term is Freud. And Freud kind of said that there was like this natural in innate human drive, right? And they kind of akin it to a hunger drive or a thirst drive. And now what researchers have told us is like, no, that's not what sex is, because you're not going to die if you don't eat. You know, you're going to die if you don't eat, drink and sleep, right? But you're not going to die. It's not an innate need for all people. Now some people will tell you, like, I think I might die if I don't have sex. But, like, really, they're probably not going to die. But it's not that kind of innate human, like, survival for most people.