Premature ejaculation: “bibliotherapy”
15% à 30% of men experience difficulty controlling their ejaculation and are therefore classed as premature ejaculators. The considerably large size of this group shows how difficult it is to diagnose the condition. However, there is one factor that is common to all these men: the psychological suffering that they experience as a result of the condition. Philippe Kempeneers, of the Department of Public Health Sciences of the University of Liege, and a psychologist at the Psychiatric Clinic of Alexiens, has been working on the subject for several years and has been researching re-education methods, in particular, through “bibliotherapy”: a small booklet containing different exercises and explanations has been created. It is published at De Boeck editions. Suffering in particularBecause this notion of time is not determined, some researchers who form a group within the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) have suggested that the inability of a man to withhold ejaculation for less than one to two minutes after intromission should be considered a pathological condition. Beyond this, the duration could be considered normal. But different cases can vary greatly: while one man may ejaculate less than two minutes after penetration causing general insatisfaction, another may be capable of ‘lasting’ five, eight or ten minutes but without satisfying his partner and therefore feel frustrated. Based on his research and clinical work, Philippe Kempeneers has formed an idea: “The first criterion to be taken into account is certainly the frustration and psychological suffering of the man and the couple. Taking account only of the duration of the penetrationis not sufficient: what distinction can be made between a penetration which lasts 1 minute and 40 seconds and another which lasts two minutes and 20 seconds, can one be considered pathological and the other not? Because if the partners are satisfied despite the short-lived penetration, why should such a “premature ejaculation” be considered a disorder?" (1) Kempeneers Ph., Bauwens S., Andrianne R., Lutter contre l'éjaculation précoce. Guide pratique, De Boeck Solal, 2015. |
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