Do women’s Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Functioning Vary as a Function of Their Male Partners’ Premature Ejaculation Symptoms?

Abstract

The present study investigated how women’s sexual functioning and relationship satisfaction are associated with their partner’s premature ejaculation (PE) symptoms, and whether prevalence rates of PE differ when women report on their male partners compared to male self-report. The sample comprised of responses from 1,779 Finnish women (mean age 33.3 years) and a control group of 1,024 Finnish men. Women who reported that their male partners had symptoms of PE were less satisfied with their relationships, and reported lower levels of arousal, orgasm, satisfaction, lubrication, and pain, but not desire. Effect sizes of these associations were small. Men and women report similar base rates of PE, suggesting that on a population level prevalence estimates are remarkably similar irrespective of whether men report on PE symptoms themselves, or women report on their partners.

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Notes

1 Note. As the GEE procedure in SPSS does not have an option to calculate effect size, effect size was estimated using the univariate General Linear Model procedure, using one randomly selected individual from each family to control for any between-subjects dependence due to genetic relatedness.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant nos. 274521, 284385, and 319403, all awarded to P.J.).