A study of 65 impotent males.
Sixty-five patients primarily referred for erectile impotence were investigated. Information was obtained from patients and their partners. The demographic data are compared with those from a non-impotent psychiatric out-patient group, matched for age. Results indicate that impotent cases do not form a homogeneous population and can be classified into three fairly distinct groups. These groups differ in age, marital status, sex drive, pre-marital and post-marital relationships, duration of illness, etc. Group 1 develop impotence because of anxiety in sexual situations. Group 2 react to the sexual response and personality of their partners, while Group 3 decline, perhaps from inherent constitutional causes. Factors such as religious restrictions, sexual taboos, alcoholism and homosexuality do not appear to be of any aetiological importance.
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology*; D005114:Extramarital Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000150:complications