Korean J Urol.
1987 Feb;28(1):111-116.
Clinical Observation on 176 Cases of Sexual Dysfunction
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- 1Department of Urology, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Sexual histories of 176 patients of the sexual dysfunctions, who visited Department of Urology of Chung-Ang University Hospital from May, l986 to Aug. l986, were reviewed and compared with findings of the diagnostic examinations. The results were as follows. 1. The erectile dysfunction was 92.6% and the ejaculatory dysfunction was 7.4%. Of the erectile dysfunctions, 58.2% was psychogenic and 4l.8% was organic. The most common etiology of the organic impotence was diabetes mellitus, followed by vascular, trauma, drug, neurogenic, and endocrinogenic in order. 2. Ages of 20 years was the most common, followed by ages of 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years in order Unmarraged single patients were 42.6%. 3. The patients whose living conditions and anxiety had influence on their sexual life were 27.3%, and the patients whose sexual problems had influence on their daily life or married life were 84.3 %. But the patients who had ever visited psychiatrists for sexual problems were only 8.6%. 4. Sexual desire of the patients was low, as compared with their ages, in 37.3%. The patients who never had sexual desire from their sexual partners were 24.3%. And indifference of their sexual partners to the patients or lack of their sexual desire was l8.4% or 21.8%. 5. Out of the 20 cases who was considered as definitely psychogenic impotent patients on the base of the sexual histories, 5 were proved to be organic by the diagnostic examinations. And out of 11 cases of organic impotences, 5 cases were turned out to be pychogenic. In conclusion, the fact that the patients of the sexual dysfunction were much more common in younger ages than expected, implies lack of sexual education and sexual knowledge with insufficient sexual expecience make them patients of the psychogenic sexual dysfunction. And the effects of sexual dysfunction on their daily life are very serious in most patients, particularly in the younger ages.
