Volume 189 - Issue 6
Premature ejaculation: a clinical update
Author: Paul T Dignam
Med J Aust 2008; 189 (6): 351-352. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02073.x
Published online: 15 September 2008
Published online: 15 September 2008
To the Editor: We all privately seek statistics that enable us to put ourselves in perspective (even if we keep the results to ourselves!), but I am now unsure where my sexual performance stands.1 On the one hand, I am told premature ejaculation affects at least one, and from time to time two, of every three males (is that the < 2 minutes version?), and on the other that there is a skewed distribution with a median of 5.4 minutes and a range of 0.55–44.1 minutes. I’m impressed by the aerobic fitness, never mind the sex.
It seems we have a continuously distributed, perhaps skewed, normal distribution of an apparently genetically determined variable, with which individual players (?70%) and their partners are dissatisfied at times. Is that not like height, or IQ? “Premature” ejaculation may not be caused by individual psychology, but it is defined by it: from our beginnings in the Garden of Eden we have always wanted more than we have!
The early sperm may not get the bird but historically it got its share of the ovum and thus has persisted over millennia. There may be a role for medicine in some extreme cases (as for “constitutional” dwarfism and gigantism, where being very different carries a significant psychological disadvantage), but for the rest are we not colluding to some extent with an escape from the reality of our limitations? How much of this is treatment and how much is performance enhancement?
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