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I don’t think OP is asking why the pharmaceutical drugs took so long to come along. I think he’s asking why there weren’t traditional medicine solutions for ED
by voisin 3y ago
I don’t think OP is asking why the pharmaceutical drugs took so long to come along. I think he’s asking why there weren’t traditional medicine solutions for ED before pharmaceutical.
I think the answer is that traditionally people were in better physical shape and more active - a huge amount of ED is caused by being out of shape, overweight, high blood pressure, etc. ED is the canary in the coal mine for a lot of physical (and mental) issues. On the mental side, I suspect people were traditionally less anxious than our modern society has made us.
- pfisherman 3y agoMaybe there just weren’t any that worked very well. Once upon a time I had the privilege of seeing an FDA database of adulterated herbal / nutritional supplements; and the most common thing in there by an overwhelming margin was supplements spiked with Viagra. When I asked why I was told, “Man has searched for an aphrodisiac for thousands of years, and we finally found one.”