The simplest test to prove PSSD is real

[biznatchsnatch]

The simplest objective test to prove PSSD is real would be:

- a randomized control sensory testing (QST) of the genitals. Healthy vs. PSSD
-Vibration, Temperature, Small electric shocks

A study was done, but it was not a randomized control with healthy subjects: https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10. ... 000964.015

There are also many simple subjective tests that would be helpful:

-Ask subjects to watch porn and rate their level of sensation, excitement, duration until orgasm/self-pleasure

Prior to PSSD I could not watch porn longer than a few minutes because of how stimulating it was. I would have to finish whether I wanted to or not.

-Ask subjects to masturbate as quickly as possible with or without porn. Most men with PSSD should have delayed ejaculation, study should show masturbation takes longer

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Why should we care about these tests?

Big Pharma will only develop treatment for PSSD when they can be absolutely certain how to identify patients.
Research labs need to know which goals to hit. I.e. returning sensation to baseline, minimizing duration of delayed ejaculation to be more normal

Objective evaluation will always be better than self-evaluation.

[anacleta]

the tests you mentioned are based on self-report
to find even more tangible and objective signs some are doing skin biopsies looking for neuropathy and some autoantibody tests but it remains to be seen