Premature Ejaculation Spray Appears Effective

Men with premature ejaculation who used a topical spray before intercourse were able to delay orgasm six times longer than normal, Irish researchers said.

Lead researcher W. Wallace Dinsmore of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, said the study involved 300 men with clinically diagnosed lifelong premature ejaculation from 31 centers in Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

The men were randomized into two groups. One group used the PSD502 spray, which contains 7.5mg of lidocaine and 2.5mg of prilocaine and the other used a placebo spray with no active ingredients.

Every time they had intercourse during the three-month study period, each couple measured the time from vaginal penetration to ejaculation with a stopwatch. The men were asked to abstain from sexual activity or masturbation for 24 hours before each recorded encounter.

The study, published in BJU International, found the time from penetration to ejaculation increased from an average a little over three minutes in the medicated group and to just 1.1 minutes in the placebo group.