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Well I am only one example but I am transgender and started taking estrogen six months ago. As my dosage has increased, my porn preferences have changed. I used

Well I am only one example but I am transgender and started taking estrogen six months ago. As my dosage has increased, my porn preferences have changed. I used to be interested in live performance porn with no interest in comics, but recently the live performance stuff has lost almost all appeal and I have found that erotic comics are very interesting and arousing. So I think in some respects there are true differences between estrogen and testosterone. The rest of my life has stayed rather constant during this time, and I am 37 years old.

techdragon 4y ago
I find these sorts of personal stories fascinating, it’s a unique and valuable window into the hormonal tides our psychological foundations are floating upon. It would be wildly unethical to get people to take these out of hormonal manipulative drugs for purely a psychological study so the only way to get this sort of understanding is through people like yourself sharing your experience, so thank you for sharing your story!
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Yes! If you are in trans circles this stuff is all common knowledge as everyone wants to talk about this stuff, but I understand the stories don't get in to the wider discourse as often.
  - Kye 4y ago
    HN is almost ready for jokes about programming socks and salt.
inglor_cz 4y ago
I no longer remember who said that, but it was a woman who started taking testosterone for some medical reason. She said something like "wow, that was a change, suddenly I wanted to fight or fuck almost everyone I met".
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Yes this is a well known effect of trans men taking testosterone. But trans issues in the wider discourse currently still boil down to some very basic stuff with no real nuance or understanding.
hitekker 4y ago
Thanks for calling this out. The twitter meme of "anything I like is natural, anything I don't like is cultural" is pretty braindead. Even just one aspect of our biology like hormones impacts human behavior considerably.
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  Well there is this issue right of for example men saying women aren't good at programming because of hormones, which is nonsense. But the real answer isn't to assume anything in one direction or the other it is to look for scientific evidence. And in this case trans people going either way provide for some great information on this topic and trans people are also often very willing to talk about these changes (when its safe).

techdragon 4y ago

I find these sorts of personal stories fascinating, it’s a unique and valuable window into the hormonal tides our psychological foundations are floating upon. It would be wildly unethical to get people to take these out of hormonal manipulative drugs for purely a psychological study so the only way to get this sort of understanding is through people like yourself sharing your experience, so thank you for sharing your story!

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Yes! If you are in trans circles this stuff is all common knowledge as everyone wants to talk about this stuff, but I understand the stories don't get in to the wider discourse as often.
- Kye 4y ago
  HN is almost ready for jokes about programming socks and salt.

inglor_cz 4y ago

I no longer remember who said that, but it was a woman who started taking testosterone for some medical reason. She said something like "wow, that was a change, suddenly I wanted to fight or fuck almost everyone I met".

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Yes this is a well known effect of trans men taking testosterone. But trans issues in the wider discourse currently still boil down to some very basic stuff with no real nuance or understanding.

hitekker 4y ago

Thanks for calling this out. The twitter meme of "anything I like is natural, anything I don't like is cultural" is pretty braindead. Even just one aspect of our biology like hormones impacts human behavior considerably.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Well there is this issue right of for example men saying women aren't good at programming because of hormones, which is nonsense. But the real answer isn't to assume anything in one direction or the other it is to look for scientific evidence. And in this case trans people going either way provide for some great information on this topic and trans people are also often very willing to talk about these changes (when its safe).