All do i agree on the fact that a pole on a random site asking people if they have sides and answering 50 randoms that you don't know even who the f*** they are, it's nothing compared to the millions that take it, or who knows how many... With all of this said, i saw a large number of people over the years, who took finasteride for years, maybe more than 10 many of them, and a lot of them said that after they stopped the medicine they acknowledged that they did not even knew that they had sides... Some thought that it was because of aging, a guy said that he was more potent and sexually active after he stopped it at 30 years old than on 20 when he started taking it and so on... Some even said that they stopped producing sperm after a while and that they did not knew what caused it and they moved on with their lives...
You are right, a lot of people take it and move on, they don't stay on hair loss forums 24/7, especially if it works and especially it they don't have life changing side effects.. But some also assigns them to the normal process of aging, some don't notice them because they are not life changing as i said and there is a percentage of them, even if it's small, that accept them because they are really desperate in saving their hair... One good example is that guy from this forum, nicknamed Somebody, that had very good results with finasteride, dermarolling and some other stuff and after some years he showed some pics of his body, i don't know if intentionally or not, but he has gyno, full blown gyno... Guess what, he does not even believe it's gyno and he prefers to say it's only fat, even if the whole forum told him it's f*****g gyno, it's not like it's hard to spot from his pictures, he actually needs a bra... But you know how it is, if he is happy, if he does not care, why should others... So it's not a generality in peoples experiences, even if the sides are none for some, or not that bad for others or maybe manageable or acceptable for some others, it depends also a lot on peoples perceptions and priorities...
And a lot, a lot of them don't even recognize they have sexual problems, some because they assign it to the normal process of aging who maybe accentuates them or some just because they are ashamed... That's why it's so hard anyways to prove something, the brain is strong correlated with the sexual functions, maybe if finasteride does something to the brain it affects the sexual functions also and it's easy to say then that "it's in their heads" and assign this sides to depression or something else, not having a clue of what the pill could affect long term and so on... If doctor can't find out and don't make strong tests before and after so they could eliminate this factors, how could some internet randoms dismiss every side thread just because they have a different experience or because they simply don't believe it just because it's not in the studies or somewhere else....