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Premature or Rapid Ejaculation

As part of his doctoral research, Dr. Guy Grenier and I collaborated on research in the area of rapid ejaculation (RE). In our first study, we assessed the occurrence and relationships among a number of commonly applied RE criteria in a sample of 112 university men. The correlations between various measures of RE (e.g., ejaculatory latency and ejaculatory control) were small suggesting that the criteria are largely independent and are not interchangeable. We did not find strong support for any specific pattern of behavior that is related to better ejaculatory control and longer ejaculatory latencies. Further, a group of experts were not able to distinguish the ejaculatory delaying techniques of the men with the poorest control and shortest latencies from those of the men with the best control and longest latencies.

Similarly, in a study involving a community sample of 260 men, we found that estimates of the prevalence of RE varied from very few men to more than half of the sample depending upon which of several criteria were used to operationalize RE. Twenty-three percent of the men identified themselves as having a current RE problem. Discriminant function analysis identified three components to men’s self-identification as having a current RE problem: a behavioral component, an affective component, and an efficacy component.

The female partners of 152 of these men also completed a questionnaire. In general, the women saw RE as less of a problem for the men than their male partners reported for themselves (e.g., only 10% of the women thought their partner had a current RE problem). For both the men and the women, having more characteristics of RE was related to lower sexual satisfaction, but was unrelated to relationship satisfaction. RE characteristics were also related to the number of non-RE sexual concerns reported by the men, but not to the number of sexual concerns reported by their female partner. However, men and women who identified the man as having an RE problem rated RE as having only a slightly negative impact on their own or their partners functioning. The results suggest that, for most couples, the timing of ejaculation adversely affects sexual satisfaction but not overall relationship and personal functioning.

Here are our publications in the area:

Byers, E. S. & Grenier, G. (2003). Premature or rapid ejaculation: Heterosexual couples’ perceptions of men’s ejaculatory behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32, 261-270.

Grenier, G. & Byers, E. S. (2001). Operationalizing premature or rapid ejaculation. The Journal of Sex Research, 38, 369-378.

Grenier, G. & Byers, E. S. (1997). The relationship among ejaculatory control, ejaculatory latency, and attempts to prolong heterosexual intercourse. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 26, 27-48.

Grenier, G. & Byers, E. S. (1995). Ejaculation: A review of conceptual, etiological, and treatment issues. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 24, 447-472.

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