Définition du seuil de la pathologie nommée “dysfonctions érectiles”. Où commence l’insuffisance érectile?

“Erectile dysfunction” is a poor term and should be replaced by “erectile insufficiency”, as although everybody knows the function of erections obtained in response to sexual excitation, the role of nocturnal erections (about 95% of erection time) is unknown. Although erectile insufficiency is generally experienced as a cruel handicap, it may not justify the status of a disease. It is also questionable to make it a psychiatric illness. Finally, erection and sexuality in general, should not be confined within certain norms, even when these norms are defined by the medical profession. However, the physician is faced with all these problems presented by this normal man who consults for impotence at a time when drugs are now available on the market, which are able to induce or facilitate erection (this latter group was previously called aphrodisiacs).