Ejaculation and the Heavy Load of Masculinity
Jonathan A. Allan in Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities, 2022
This chapter explores the connections between ejaculation and masculinity, while also highlighting how ejaculation has become more and more visible. Ejaculation becomes a sign of infertility, and thus it becomes a measure of virility, manhood, and masculinity. Michael Johnson Jr. has argued for the “inseparability of ejaculation and hegemonic masculinity”, noting that “ejaculation is the sine qua non of ‘successful’ sexual acts for males”. During the twentieth century through to the contemporary moment, ejaculation becomes more and more visible whether it be the pornographic “money shot” or a silly scene in a mumblecore film that plays on the “gross” nature of semen, for instance, in Ted 2 when Mark Wahlberg’s character is covered in semen during a mishap at a sperm bank. Johnson’s ejaculation imperative, in some ways, is a deeply visual theory, that is, it is about the spectacle of ejaculation more than anything else.
Factors associated with premature ejaculation
Francois Carufel in Premature Ejaculation, 2017
Definitions of premature ejaculation Premature ejaculation has been defined in a great variety of ways by the many researchers who have studied the subject. For further clarity, these definitions have been grouped together into eight categories. Nevertheless, it is important to remember that the expression “premature ejaculation” embraces the same reality as the expression “difficulty with prolonging intercourse” but tends to convey a different understanding of this reality.
Male Methods
Sujoy K. Guba in Bioengineering in Reproductive Medicine, 2020
Disorders of semen ejaculation is one of the causes of male infertility. The problems fall into four major groups: retrograde ejaculation; premature ejaculation; ejaculatory duct obstruction and ejaculatory failure. 1 In retrograde ejaculation the seminal fluid travels to the bladder instead of being voided anteriorly via the urethra. Premature ejaculation involves seminal evacuation prior to vaginal intromission. Obstruction of the seminal flow pathways may be congenital or acquired and may result in reduced total spermatozoa count in the ejaculate or aspermia. Ejaculatory failure is on account of some abnormality in the activation and effectiveness of the propulsion mechanism. The first three types of problems are dealt with by drug therapy, surgery and psychiatric counselling. Technology has a role in the management of the fourth category, i.e., ejaculatory failure. Physical modalities to induce ejaculation have been developed.
Analysis of measured values of ejaculation time in healthy males
Published in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1997
Yuzuru Kameya, Aklra Deguchi, Yasunari Yokota
Although it has been deemed irrelevant to address ejaculation time in terms of mean values, our study was designed as a preliminary step in determining the normal range of ejaculation time(from the start of stimulation of the erect penis to ejaculation) as a criterion for assessing the degree of ejaculation disorder. Ejaculation experiments were performed with informed and consenting healthy volunteers about 20 years of age, using identical manual stimulation by the same woman, and ejaculation time was measured. The mean ± standard deviation for the ejaculation time was 156.5 ± 80.7 seconds, which was shown to be erection time dependent.
Penile sensitivity in men with premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction
Published in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1993
David Rowland, Stefan Haensel, Jan Blom, A. Slob
Previous research indicates that penile sensitivity is typically lower in men with erectile dysfunction than in age-matched controls. On the assumption that sensitivity might be greater in men with short ejaculation latency (premature ejaculation), the present research investigated penile threshold (sensitivity) to vibrotactile stimulation in men with premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, or a combination of the two. Premature ejaculators showed thresholds commensurate with controls, while men with erectile dysfunction, or combined erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation, showed significantly elevated thresholds. Although premature ejaculators did not show penile hypersensitivity, there was a significant correlation in this group between ejaculation latency and threshold. Overall, these findings argue against a primary role for penile sensitivity in ejaculation latency, and suggest that other somatic factors or cognitive factors may play the more critical role in premature ejaculation.
Clomipramine versus placebo in the treatment of premature ejaculation: A pilot study
Published in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1993
R. Segraves, A. Saran, K. Segraves, E. Maguire
This study evaluated clomipramine as a possible treatment for premature ejaculation. Twenty patients with premature ejaculation were randomly allocated to treatment with clomipramine or placebo in a double-blind study. Average estimated time to ejaculation after vaginal penetration increased to 6.1 minutes on 25 mg. of clomipramine and to 8.4 minutes on 50 mg. of clomipramine. These estimated times were significantly different from estimated time to ejaculation while on placebo. These findings suggest that low dose clomipramine may be useful in the treatment of premature ejaculation.