Reuters: Premature ejaculation drug delays climax

Reuters ^ | 5.23.05

[ambrose]

Premature ejaculation drug delays climax

Monday May 23, 1:13 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first drug formulated to treat premature ejaculation delayed climax and increased reported satisfaction in a late-stage study, its developer, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ - News), said on Monday.

A Phase III clinical trial of 2,614 men showed the drug provided "significant improvements in sexual function, including ejaculatory control, satisfaction with sexual intercourse for men and their partners, and increases in intravaginal ejaculatory latency time," Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a unit of J&J, said in a statement.

The drug, called dapoxetine, is being co-developed by J&J's Alza Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services, LLC units. The company's Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical unit will market the drug in the United States if it receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

The American Urological Association estimates that premature ejaculation affects anywhere between 27 percent and 34 percent of men across all age ranges. Erectile dysfunction, the condition that made Pfizer's (NYSE:PFE - News) impotence drug Viagra into a blockbuster, affects an estimated 10 percent to 12 percent of men.

"The impact premature ejaculation can have on men and their partners can be devastating for a relationship, and, currently, there are no truly optimal therapies for PE," said Dr. Jon Pryor, chairman and program director of the Department of Urologic Surgery at the University of Minnesota, who led the study.

Researchers working on the drug reported last month that they could define premature ejaculation. They said a man with the condition took 1.8 minutes to ejaculate after beginning intercourse compared to 7.3 minutes for most men.

They call this Intravaginal Ejaculatory Latency Time and is timed by giving the man or his sexual partner a stopwatch.

In a study presented to a meeting of the American Urological Association in San Antonio, Texas, researchers said men who took dapoxetine at doses of either 30 mg or 60 mg had a three- to four-fold increase in this time compared to men given a placebo.

The percentage of men rating control over ejaculation as "fair to very good" increased from 2.5 percent before getting the drug, to 51.8 percent afterwards for men who got the lower dose, to 58 percent of men given the higher dose.

Of the men who got the placebo, 3.5 percent reported fair to very good control before getting the dummy pill and 26.4 percent said so afterwards.

"The percentage of men rating sexual satisfaction as 'good to very good' almost doubled with dapoxetine 30 mg (20.2 percent to 38.7 percent) and 60 mg (22.3 percent to 46.5 percent)," the company said. Just under 25 percent of men who got the placebo reported good sexual satisfaction.

[Muzzle_em]

I expected some hilarious comments would be posted here, but was disappointed to see there were none.

[newgeezer]

Surely this, too, will be covered by Medicare & Medicaid.

My tax dollars at work.

[stuartcr]

The hilarious comments have been delayed three to fourfold...

[martin_fierro]

Reuters: Premature ejaculation drug delays climax

Yeah.

But you have to wait 5 years before it's on the market.

< |:)~

[Sam the Sham]

Has no one come up with a brand name yet ?

Keepitin ? Climaxin ?

[KeyesPlease]

"They call this Intravaginal Ejaculatory Latency Time and is timed by giving the man or his sexual partner a stopwatch."

Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer.

[Mannaggia l'America]

I expected some hilarious comments would be posted here, but was disappointed to see there were none.

Maybe you looked prematurely. The posters may just be holding back....

[newzjunkey]

This will have a huge black market among teenage boys.

[KarlInOhio]

It takes me at least five minutes to post hilarious comments.

[biblewonk]

How about a "pick up chicks" drug.

[AngryJawa]

This will devastate the baseball statistics industry! The drugging of America must stop! 8^)

[pissant]

how timely of you....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1408772/posts

[skimbell]

Jezuz, can you imagine what you get if you take this "delaying drug" and couple it with one of those drugs that cause "occasional erections lasting longer than 4 hours, while uncommon, do require immediate medical attention?

Hell, you'd have to register yourself as a lethal weapon!

[Drew68]

A premature ejaculation drug has been around for years. It's called whisky.

[NRA2BFree]

I wonder how long this thread is going to last? LOL

[KarlInOhio]

How about a "pick up chicks" drug.

Already being produced.

[AngryJawa]

A premature ejaculation drug has been around for years. It's called whisky.

Yup. It's effective, but it really stings. 8^)

[biblewonk]

It's also a "chick beautification" drug.

[Pukin Dog]

So? Stiletto heels poking you in the kidneys works just as well.

[biblewonk]

I think it's been helping ugly people have sex for a lot longer than that though.

[smonk]

---intravaginal ejaculatory latency time---

this is pretty much the definition of "too much information."

[cartan]

Interesting to see that at least someone at Reuters is actually reading his Email spam...

[Right Angler]

When and where can I get th.... errr..., I mean---HAHAHA!! What kinda wimp has problems like this?

[AngryJawa]

So? Stiletto heels poking you in the kidneys works just as well.

I'm afraid I'll need a Kama Sutra reference number for that, uh...posture.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Intravaginal Ejaculatory Latency Time

That would be a great name for a band.

[Choose Ye This Day]

compared to 7.3 minutes for most men

Huh! They must have TiVo.

[newzjunkey]

Well, it tells us that no homosexuals were involved in this study.

[frithguild]

"delaying drug" and couple it with one of those drugs that cause "occasional erections lasting longer than 4 hours

I am buying stock in defibrilators for home use.

[Owl_Eagle]

13 posted on 05/23/2005 1:30:01 PM EDT by pissant (I've got a headache)

 

13?  You're slippin', fella.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Conservatrix]

increases in intravaginal ejaculatory latency time

Scientists sure have a way of putting things... Wonder how Eminem would put it... (I wouldn't DARE)...

[Choose Ye This Day]

Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
When you want to come

[Pukin Dog]

That is so sad.

[smonk]

---Well, it tells us that no homosexuals were involved in this study.---

what would be "premature" in that scenario?

[Choose Ye This Day]

No, I think the question he's getting at is:

What would be "vaginal" in that scenario?

[smonk]

---No, I think the question he's getting at is:----

---What would be "vaginal" in that scenario?---

no vagina, no vaginal orgasm, nothing to be premature about, is there?

maybe I just don't understand homosexual sex very well.

[AngryJawa]

That is so sad.

Yes. Indeed it is.

With any luck, I'll get to be a naval aviator in my next life. Chicks dig the wings...8^)

[Pukin Dog]

Is it the wings?

Damn.

I always thought it was the fact that I would be gone 6-8 months of the year, while my credit cards would always be around. Silly me.

[Protagoras]

What happens when a guy takes Viagra and this stuff at the same time?

[Larry Lucido]

Well, if it's a "premature ejaculation" drug, shouldn't it be causing faster climaxes? I mean, I got things to do here, I'm a busy guy!

[drjimmy]

This will have a huge black market among teenage boys.

Nah. Teenage boys don't know yet that quicker isn't better. Besides, for most of them it would have to be called "intradigital ejaculatory latency time."

[Finger Monkey]

intravaginal ejaculatory latency time

Schawing ping.

[thag]

Oooh Baby! I guess I read this too fast!

Love, Thag

[Finger Monkey]

Maybe they have a pill for that too.

Lick,

Bertha

[Moleman]

The drug to make you last longer was invented years ago.
Beer...

[thag]

Just hand me a Kleenex, woodja?

[Finger Monkey]

How about a Wet One, they are a little more effective, and will not fall apart during a massive cleanup.

[thag]

Even better! Thanks!!!!

Love, Thag

[Finger Monkey]

No problem, babee.

Lick,

Bertha

[Finger Monkey]

Oh, and thaggy-poo, I just wanted to say I think civilization may be getting to you. You capitalized Kleenex, as one should, but, I expect different from you. What's next Frisbee, Xerox, Coke?

Please, thaggy, break the shackles of society and be the caveman I know and love you as. Please.

sob

Sorry, hormones must be flaring up.