Updated May 9, 2007 at 0:5 EST.
In volume 23 of the Indian Journal of Urology published in 2007, CG McMahon discusses one of the popular methods for measuring premature ejaculation ( PE ) and issues that may underlie this method. Many researchers ask couples to use a stopwatch to measure intravaginal ejaculatory latency time ( IELT ) when determining the time between intromission and ejaculation. McMahon documents a study of 500 healthy volunteers in order to provide a normative data reference to ( IELT ). Data using this method may be skewed positively, according to the study, thus leading to a false representation of the “cut-off” time that could be used to screen for men with premature ejaculation ( PE ) .
Standard studies using ( IELT ) have looked at 2 minutes as the range for which men have definite or even probable premature ejaculation ( PE ). The study reviewed by McMahon noted that men with IELT <1 minute have “definite” premature ejaculation ( PE ), while men with IELT >1 – 1.5 minutes have “probable” premature ejaculation ( PE ). Using these measurements would bring the percentile of men with either definite or probable premature ejaculation ( PE ) in line with most disease estimates of .5 to 2.5 of the population. More definitive measurements, like the study McMahon references, can assist researchers in bringing a clearer picture of how to measure premature ejaculation ( PE ) in terms of ( IELT ).
Written by the PEhomepage.com Editorial Team.
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