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What Are the Symptoms?

The symptoms of male sexual problems include:

• Lack of sexual desire, sexual fantasies, or interest in sexual contact.
• Inability to have or maintain any erection at all.
• Inability to have or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual functioning.
• Inability to reach an orgasm despite adequate sexual stimulation and signs of arousal.
• Ability to achieve orgasm only after an unusually lengthy period of stimulation.
• Ability to achieve orgasm only during masturbation or during oral sex.
• Ability to achieve orgasm only in situations that are considered bizarre or taboo, such as fetishes.
• Difficulty controlling the timing of orgasm and ejaculation, so that it occurs very early in sexual contact, leaving the other partner dissatisfied.
• Lack of ejaculation.
• Persistent erection, unassociated with sexual desire.

Call Your Doctor If:

• You or your partner are experiencing significant distress due to sexual dysfunction.
• Erections or intercourse are painful.
• You have an extended erection, unrelated to sexual desire.
• You lack any desire for sexual contact.
• You are unable to have or maintain a usable erection.
• You are unable to have an orgasm.
• You are unable to control the timing of your orgasm, so that you ejaculate extremely early during sexual activity.