A session at the 1999 AAPA Annual Conference, sponsored by an unrestricted grant from Pfizer, explored the implications for the primary care clinicians. Among men, premature ejaculation was the principal complaint of two-thirds. Men with liberal attitudes about sex tended to report their sex lives as unsatisfying. Loss of partner, emotional stress, a troubled relationship, and urinary tract infections commonly reduce sexual desire. For both men and women, sexual satisfaction was reported to be higher among married people than either single or divorced individuals.
Educational attainment correlates to healthy life style and a low incidence of sexual dysfunction.
Sudden deterioration of socioeconomic status diminishes sexual satisfaction for both genders as do traumatic sexual experience and serious health concerns. Survey data of this kind make it clear that although sexual dysfunction can have either organic or psychological origins, in most instances it is a combination of the two. The fraction rises steadily from age 50, at which approximately 30 percent report ED, to age 70, when two-thirds of men report it. Most of the session on sexual health was devoted to this subject. Read et al.