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For philosophical reasons, my interests is primarily in sexual enhancement. That DHEA enhances sexaulity is one of the strongest arguments of those who sell it. Better sex is the essence of better health. If there indeed is a way to enhance sexual pleasure and performance, Who would not want to spare a few buckes?

It became crirical of DHEA after I had experianced drugs that really work to that end. Cabergoline, Tongkat Ali, Yohimbine, Sildenafil, Bromocriptine, and a few lesser members of this family.

I have stopped taking DHEA, with no ill effect on my sex life, or my body composition, or my mood in general. The possitive effects I would have ascribed previously to DHEA were all in my mind. When I had a great time while using DHEA, I did so because I was convinced that I should have a great time, having ingested DHEA.

I never had real prof of DHEA's effect, and nor do those who will tout it. The effect is supposed to be subtle, developing over a prolonged period of use. Nothing dramatic, they say, just turning back the time a few years.

But with Yohimbine, or Tongkat Ali, or Sildenafil Citrate, or Bromocriptine, I dont have to wait for subtle effects. The effects clearly manifest themselves after a few hours, and they are very measurable erection firmness, erection duration, ejaculatory force, multiple orgasms.

I tried DHEA before I engaged in serious research on sexual enhancement medications. I have since tried on myself practically every substance that has been reported to have a possitive effect on sexual funcetion or sexual satisfaction. There have been many more placebos. Nevertheless, I have been able to engineer for myself a degree of sexual functionality that is much better than it was in the mid-nineties, even though I am now 10 years older.

DHEA is not among the substances i recommended for sexual enhancement. For me, DHEA has, first of all, been a lesson on two self-propelled immaterial forces: human perception and commercial interests.

Its been a lesson on human perception because its clearly proved that if only we are sufficiently convinced that a substance works to make for better sex, then it will.

And its an ongoing lesson on commercial interests: as long as some (or many) people make money from other people's perceptionthat a certain substance will enhance one's sexual pleasure and function, then this perception will be propagated on and on (even by who know that it's just a placebo effect).