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That, and guys tend to medicate their hormones too these days (finasteride). Yes, DHT is "just" a parallel path -- but when is biology ever that cut and dry, es
by jjoonathan 4y ago
That, and guys tend to medicate their hormones too these days (finasteride). Yes, DHT is "just" a parallel path -- but when is biology ever that cut and dry, especially when there's so much money to be made?
- scythe 4y agoDoes anyone actually start taking finasteride before the emergence of sexuality, though? As far as I'm aware, treatment is usually initiated at age 21 or later. In that case, changes in sexuality should be very hard to miss, and we'd know by now.
- jjoonathan 4y agoYeah, it's after puberty -- but are you so sure it would be hard to miss? Small effects with lots of confounding variables and an enormous profit incentive to miss seem easy to miss.
- scythe 4y agoIn order to do due diligence for this reply, I typed "finasteride" into Google Scholar, and the first suggestion was "finasteride side effects", which brings up 20,500 results, including highly cited papers dealing specifically with sexual side effects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743609515337863 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174360951... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609515335566 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17436... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557988314538445 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15579883145384... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028219325993 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001502821... I think that in that context, it would be hard to miss!