Plasma testosterone in male patients with sexual dysfunction

Plasma testosterone values were established by the protein-binding method in 45 married patients who at the age of 36-55 were examined for sexual disinterest and/or disturbances of penile erection. The control group consisted of 108 men whose ejaculate was normospermic and who reported adequate coital activity. The average values of male sex hormone in all age subgroups of patients with functional sexual disorders were lower than those of the control group. However, in patients with a pathological somatosexual finding (chromatin-positive men, patients with a varicocele), where the plasma testosterone level was approximately the same as in patients with functional sexual disorders, similar coital activity was found as in the control group of normospermic men.