Spray-on drug may increase ejaculation time

By Jimmy Downs and editing by Sheilah Downey

One anesthetic used topically on the penis may help men make love for a much longer time, a new trial released Thursday shows.

The trial results show that men who used the spray-on anesthetic were able to increase the time to ejaculation by about five times.

Premature ejaculation is reportedly common in American men. One in every three men aged 18 to 59 can't last more than 36 seconds after penetration.

In the past, some physicians prescribed anesthetic creams for off-label use to delay ejaculation. But men needed to use the drug 45 minutes before action and they need to wear a condom to prevent the anesthetic from affecting their partners.

The new drug, dubbed PSD502 or Tempe, developed by Plethora Solutions of London and Sciele Pharma Inc. of Atlanta, can be used a couple of minutes prior to the intimate action and men's partners rarely feel numbed.

The trial tested the drug containing lidocaine and prilocaine in 256 men with premature ejaculation at 38 centers in the United States, Canada and Poland. The patients can last an average of less than 36 seconds.

Dr. Michael G. Wyllie of Plethora reported Thursday at a meeting of the Sexual Medicine Society of North American held in San Diego, California that men who received the drug increased their intercourse time to an average of 2 minutes and 36 seconds compared with an increase of 48 seconds for the control group.

The extended performance time lasted for three months and men who received the drug and their partners reported a better experience.

Men are more likely to have premature ejaculation than dysfunctional erection, which can be treated with Viagra.

Viagra can get men to erect and the anesthetic can make men last longer. But is there anything men can do to increase their pleasure, possibly their partners' as well?

A health observer who did not want to be named said just because you can erect all right and make love for a long time does not mean you have obtained the best feeling already.

He suggested that in order to have a good performance and pleasurable experience, men need to eat plenty of meat, seafood, and cold water fatty fish like salmon, vitamin C and garlic to boost their sexual drive and their speedy production of semen so that when they ejaculate, they have full loads to ejaculate which deliver an ultimately satisfying pleasure.