are you struggling with problems in the bedroom well I'm here to tell you that you are not alone
I'm going to explain today in this video exactly how many people are struggling with different
types of sexual dysfunction and what exactly does it mean when you're having problems in the bedroom
so all the numbers in this video I'm going to tell you are from studies of prevalence and prevalence
is how often we see a disease in a population or what proportion of the population or percentage of
the population suffers from that condition we're looking at things like sexual disorders there's
a few things that make these studies challenging one is the definition of these conditions can be
variable from study to study the other thing is that these are very different depending on
the type of population you're studying that can include different ages different sexes
different cultural backgrounds and different ways of getting the information or asking the questions
so keep it in mind as we move forward first half of the video is going to talk about women and the
second half of the video is going to talk about men so as far as women with sexual dysfunction
they look at all prevalent studies they find that about 40 to 50 percent of women suffer from some
sort of sexual dysfunction that's one in two women that is very very common the first condition is
hypoactive sexual desire disorder and this is essentially when women have no desire to have
intercourse or even fantasize or do things of a sexual nature and this is causing significant
bother to them so some women may have no low desire and not be bothered by it they would
not be considered to be having this hypoactive sexual desire disorder in the uk in middle aged
women they found the problems to be about 17 looking at the united states and sweden they
found that to range from 33 to 35 so one in three and in australia they found it to be as high as 55
when looking across all studies after about the age of 65 this is very common seen in 40 to 50
of women so we've got a real problem on our hands if 50 of women are bothered by low sexual desire
we need to find out what's going on and i think the big problem here is that women are not talking
about it with their doctors and their doctors are not always trained on what to do to help them
which makes it a very self-perpetuating difficult and challenging issue when they looked at levels
of self-perceived meaning that they felt they had low levels of lubrication it was about 21 to 29
however in women with diabetes that rate was significantly higher up to 41 another problem they
looked at was orgasmic dysfunction and what that is is that a woman when she is sexually excited
and is interested in having sex she has difficulty achieving orgasm or is unable to achieve an orgasm
at all in the u.s sweden australia and canada they saw rates of orgasmic dysfunction anywhere between
16 to 25 that's almost one in four women that's a hugely large amount and in iran they found
this rate to be as high as 37 dysperunia or pain that occurs either before during or right after
penetrative vaginal intercourse is extremely variable rates range from anywhere from 2
to 27 one of the causes of painful intercourse is called vaginismus and this is when you
have a painful contraction of the pelvic floor muscles or the muscles in the vagina that makes
it extremely difficult for penetration to occur and this is seen in six percent of populations
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low desire which is often a sign of having low testosterone levels you can see low desire in men
anywhere between 15 to 25 percent and just like in women this increases dramatically after the age of
60. and this very commonly is because after the age of 60 to 65 many people start to experience
other medical conditions that can create a lot of distress discomfort pain which can make sex
less of an important priority for those people and thus they can have less interest in having
sex erectile dysfunction which is the inability to have an erection that is firm enough for
penetrative intercourse is very common so in men younger than 40 the rates of erectile dysfunction
are usually less than 10 when you get to 60 that rate increases to 20 to 40 percent and by 70 to 80
years of age about half of men are experiencing erectile dysfunction premature ejaculation
is a condition where a man ejaculates before he or his partner desire and this is variable there
are certainly strict definitions used in research purposes but practically speaking if it's causing
you or your partner bother then it is considered premature ejaculation it ranges anywhere between
eight to thirty percent globally around the world that's with the exception of two studies
in one study in the united states for men 50 to 59 they found this rate as high as 55 and in another
study in london they found rates as low as 3.5 percent i think this is a condition that is very
infrequently talked about but is very very common delayed ejaculation is defined as a prolonged
period of time for which it takes extended amounts of sexual stimulation for a man to reach climax
or orgasm there are few studies on this and we estimate that the rate is somewhere between 1
and 10 however it's likely higher in elderly men who are less commonly included in these studies
as far as orgasmic dysfunction or difficulty attaining orgasm for men they looked at a study in
the united states and about eight percent of men had difficulty attaining orgasm in the last year
very little study has been done on pain during intercourse for men however one small study
found the rate as high as 16 and lastly i want to focus on younger men because i'm seeing more and
more men in my clinic who are younger who have issues with erections so there have been a few
studies across the world looking at erectile dysfunction in younger men a canadian study
looking at young men between the ages of 16 and 21 found rates of sexual dysfunction to be
as high as 15 percent fortunately only 2 of those men had severe erectile dysfunction in an italian
study of almost 450 men younger than age 40 they looked also at rates of erectile dysfunction and
factors that are associated with having erectile dysfunction and they found 26 of these men had
erectile dysfunction interestingly they had higher rates of premature ejaculation tobacco
use and they more commonly used illicit drugs this is where it's really important to differentiate
between premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction many men will think that they're
having erectile dysfunction because they ejaculate too soon so it's important always to distinguish
when you're talking to your doctor are you having an erection that goes away because you ejaculate
or is it going away before you climax because the treatment for these two is very different if
you're curious to learn more about the treatment for premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction
make sure you check out the videos that i've made on these two topics a brazilian study also
looked at which young men were more likely to have issues and they found that men who had less sexual
education had more difficulties at the beginning of their sexual life had never masturbated or had
lower levels of just education in general were more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction
interestingly other factors that we would expect to be associated with erectile dysfunction
like smoking alcohol use other medical conditions depression and anxiety were not correlated in this
study with having erectile dysfunction in young men and lastly in a study of men 36 to 40 years
old who were active duty military in the united states they found rates of erectile dysfunction
to be as high as 33 that's one in three men interestingly they found these issues to be more
common in men who were unmarried not white and had lower education also those with poor psychological
and physical health tended to be more likely to get erectile dysfunction in this group so the
whole purpose of this video for you guys was to let you know that you are not alone so i hope that
we got this across for you as always we're gonna take care of yourself because you're worth it
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