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A population of 201 Swedish nonpsychotic outpatients with complaints of impotence and premature ejaculation was examined. Impotence was defined as the inability to achieve erection and premature ejaculation as anteportal ejaculation, ejaculation immediately after insertion, or ejaculation which the patient desperately attempts to delay, invariably without success. This study concerns the family background of the patients, especially parental age, the patients' social background, occupation, socioeconomic status, and the occurrence of psychological disturbances. More than one-third of the patients who had been raised in a complete family were only sons, in contrast to the estimated corresponding frequency of only sons in the Swedish population of 6%. Parental age of the patients was higher than the estimated average for Swedes of the same age as the patients. There was no difference between the number of patients who had been born out of wedlock and the frequency in the ordinary population. The occupational status of the patients more often included technical and economic professions compared to the average distribution of professions in Sweden; there was a marked preponderance of engineers. No common psychiatric signs or symptoms characterized the patients in the two groups.
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Lidberg, L. Social and psychiatric aspects of impotence and premature ejaculation. Arch Sex Behav 2, 135–146 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541863
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