Premature Ejaculation: Results from a Five-Country European Observational Study

Functional and Psychological Characteristics of Belgian Men with Premature Ejaculation and Their Partners

“…However, there are significant differences in how clinicians and researchers measure these criteria. Some use dichotomous responses (e.g., Nolazco et al, 2004) while others use multipoint scales (e.g., Giuliano et al, 2007;Porst et al, 2007;Rowland et al, 2004); some explicitly assess the subject's feeling of control (e.g., Porst et al, 2007) while others assume a lack of control since the subject complains about an ejaculation occurring before he wished (e.g., Giuliano et al, 2007;Patrick et al, 2005); some consider the frequency of the problem (e.g., Laumannn et al, 2005;Levinson, 2008;Revicki et al, 2008) while others do not assess it (e.g., Porst et al, 2007); some exclude from the diagnosis rapid ejaculations which are clearly due to the effects of substance use (e.g., Patrick et al, 2005) while others do not pay any attention to substance use (e.g., .…”

Coping with Premature Ejaculation: An Online Survey in a Representative Sample of the German Male Population Aged 18 to 64 Years

“…We didn´t distinguish between men in stable partnerships vs. men without a regular partner as long as men were sexually active since we wanted a 'real life' representation of the study population. The Global Online Sexuality Survey (GOSS) did not find irregular coitus to pose a risk for PE [13]. In our survey, 63% of men with PE had talked about this problem with their partner.…”

Pathophysiology of Acquired Premature Ejaculation

“…PE has been estimated to occur in 4-39% of men in the general community (27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33), and is often reported as the most common self reported male sexual disorder (34). There is, however, a substantial disparity between the incidence of PE in epidemiological studies which rely upon either patient self-report of PE and/or inconsistent and poorly validated definitions of PE (9,32,35), and that suggested by community based stopwatch studies of the intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT), the time interval between penetration and ejaculation (8). The latter demonstrates that the distribution of the IELT is positively skewed, with a median IELT of 5.4 minutes (range, 0.55-44.1 minutes), decreases with age and varies between countries, and supports the notion that IELTs of less than 1 minute are statistically abnormal compared to men in the general western population (8).…”