Finasteride has a lower risk of sexual side effects than commonly perceived, with a 0.5% difference compared to placebo in large, controlled studies.

“there was one study that demonstrated that men who were just simply told that the drug might cause side effects were 500 percent more likely to report sexual side effects than the group who was just prescribed the drug without any knowledge of that whatsoever”

“But I would compel you to look at the actual literature and assess what the prevalence was among those who were subjected to DHT deprivation and finasteride users and dutastasteride. And it is not much different than placebo in very very rigorous and significant high number of uh subject studies that were well uh well constructed studies. Like this is not something that a lot of it is mediadriven.”