# Guys: ejaculate without orgasm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702 "2006-05-14T02:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bchbnny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@bchbnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bchbnny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/1 "2006-05-14T02:11:54Z")
Recently I just learned that it is in fact possible for males to ejaculate without experiencing an orgasm, and there’s a name for this condition, although I am unable to recall it off the top of my head. Anybody have any idea how to “fix” this condition. Thanks so much ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/2 "2006-05-14T05:40:29Z")
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorgasmia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorgasmia) perhaps? > [@](#): > > A common cause of anorgasmia, in both men and women, is the use of anti-depressants, particularly the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Though reporting of anorgasmia as a side-effect of SSRIs is not precise, it is estimated that 15-50% of users of such medications are affected by this condition. Some popular SSRIs are Effexor, Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft. The chemical amantadine has been shown to cure SSRI-induced anorgasmia in some people, though not in all people. > > One proposed — and disputed — cause of anorgasmia during intercourse in younger men is a particular masturbation style — according to two doctors and one psychologist who have coined the term traumatic masturbatory syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![AnabolicDoberman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@AnabolicDoberman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnabolicDoberman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/3 "2006-05-14T05:46:54Z")
It happens occassionaly to me if having sex for along time and stopping orgasm with pelvic kegels. I think it is normal. Does it happen to you alot or something? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/4 "2006-05-14T06:27:12Z")
> [@](#): > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorgasmia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorgasmia) perhaps? What is usually called “anorgasmia” in males (and not extremely uncommon) is the unability to ejaculate (and as a consequence to have an orgasm), and generally only during intercourses (as opposed to masturbation) . Not the lack of orgasm _despite_ an ejaculation, which is what the OP refers to. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/5 "2006-05-14T06:49:47Z")
I found the english name of the condition described by the OP : “ejaculatory anhedonia” ---
**Author:** ![bchbnny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@bchbnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bchbnny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/6 "2006-05-14T11:50:17Z")
Right, that is what I had read it was called. My new bf says he’s been like that his whole life, and has only had one real orgasm. Thus far, the only way I’ve come across to find a possible solution is to see a urologist and they can look at a couple different things and figure outl just what precisely is causing it. ---
**Author:** ![Diletante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Diletante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diletante)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/7 "2006-05-14T15:43:05Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > I found the english name of the condition described by the OP : > > “ejaculatory anhedonia” Shouldn’t it be ‘anhedonic ejaculation’? Maybe that’s not important… ---
**Author:** ![bchbnny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@bchbnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bchbnny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/8 "2006-05-14T16:44:48Z")
don’t know, but the correct terminology is ‘ejaculatory ahedonia’ ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/9 "2006-05-14T20:39:12Z")
I find this can happen if I’m concentrating too hard on holding off my ejaculation. The prostrate overrides my best efforts, and the orgasm winds up feeling diminished, or ‘strangled’. Best I can describe it. I’m also entertaining the notion that orgasms just get less powerful as I get older. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/10 "2006-05-14T20:41:23Z")
> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#): > > I find this can happen if I’m concentrating too hard on holding off my ejaculation. The **prostrate** overrides my best efforts, and the orgasm winds up feeling diminished, or ‘strangled’. Best I can describe it. I’m also entertaining the notion that orgasms just get less powerful as I get older. Prostate? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/11 "2006-05-14T21:28:52Z")
I’ve experienced this, as well as ejaculation without erection and orgasm without ejaculation. But I much prefer to have everything happen at once. ---
**Author:** ![a\_10\_u\_us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@a\_10\_u\_us](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_10_u_us)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/12 "2006-05-14T21:35:37Z")
One way that happens is “wet dreams”, where ejaculation has messed the sheets but the sleeper does not recall being excited. Of course that may just be his line to his mother. ---
**Author:** ![a\_10\_u\_us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@a\_10\_u\_us](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_10_u_us)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/13 "2006-05-14T21:38:48Z")
Also, it’s quite easy to reach climax with no ejaculation. This is common when climaxes come too close together. Charlie Sheen often tells of legal whoring in Amsterdam, where he kept going even after he “was shooting blanks”. Any condition that disrups the production or flow of liquid can cause that, including simple thirst. ---
**Author:** ![bchbnny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@bchbnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bchbnny)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-ejaculate-without-orgasm/356702/14 "2006-05-14T21:41:52Z")
Less powerful orgasms as you get older? I’ve never heard that, but I certainly hope not; talk about depressing.