My reasons for starting:
1) To rehab an injury incurred at birth
2) To build up strength to protect myself against the marauding gangs in my old neighborhood
3) To attract women
4) To avoid feeling inadequate
Did it work? Here are the answers,
1) Yes to a large degree
2) Having extra size made people think twice, but the best way seemed to be to hanging out with the right people
3) Not really, in fact at my biggest it seemed to have an opposite effect. Being comfortable with myself worked better in this department.
4) Didn't help really, to change that I had to build all areas of my life,; still building.