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Delayed Ejaculation

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Deficient ejaculation; Ejaculatory incompetence; Impaired ejaculation; Inadequate ejaculation; Inhibited ejaculation; Overcontrolled ejaculation; Retarded ejaculation; Unsatisfactory sensation of ejaculation (including painful ejaculation, ejaculatory anhedonia,). In addition, the labels inhibited male orgasm, impaired orgasm, and male orgasmic disorder have also been used

Introduction

Delayed ejaculation (DE) is a less common and often misunderstood male sexual dysfunction. While this entry focuses on delayed ejaculation (DE), there is a full spectrum of “male ejaculation/orgasm disorders,” ranging from premature ejaculation (PE) through various diminished ejaculatory disorders (DEDs) (Perelman, McMahon, & Barada, 2004). These other DEDs encompass dimensions of reduced ejaculatory volume, force, subjective sensation, direction, as well as the very rare post-orgasmic illness syndrome (Perelman, 2018a, 2020; Waldinger, 2016). Some of the historical terms used for DE are viewed...

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Perelman, M.A. (2021). Delayed Ejaculation. In: Lykins, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59531-3_47-1

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