HisandHerHealth: Information About Sexuality, Prostate, Incontinence

Increased urinary calcium can result from an abnormal increased absorption from the intestine due to hereditary factors or bowel disease; excess leakage of calcium from the kidneys, may be due to immobilization after surgery or an injury,or from certain medical conditions. Excessive urinary oxalate my be the result of bowel disease or dietary imbalances.Your urologist will probably test for these. Dairy products are a primary source of calcium, leafy, dark green vegetables, (spinach, collard greens, etc,), and colas are primary sources of oxalate.

What is premature ejaculation (PE)? You might expect that this is an easy question to answer, but it depends on whom you ask. Masters and Johnson (1970), the founders of modern sex therapy, stated that a man has PE if he ejaculates before the woman reaches orgasm in 50 percent or more of their sexual encounters. PE is sometimes defined as a problem accomplishing a “normal” length of time between insertion and ejaculation. Studies have even defined PE by a specific amount of intercourse time: less than one minute, two, three, four, five, seven, or 10 minutes, each amount based on a different reason. Still others have proposed to define PE by the number of intravaginal thrusts: eight thrusts, 15 thrusts.

by Francois Eid, MD Director of the Center for Male Sexual Function, Department of Urology