Encouraging preservation of sexual function postprostatectomy.

Sexual function after prostatectomy, particularly perirenal, has been reviewed in 128 patients treated in private practice for the past twenty years by one urologist with an avowed bias to encouraging postoperative sexual function. Surgical procedures for benign and neoplastic lesions of the prostate usually do not impair sexual potency when a patient is interested in coitus, has an available partner, and is encouraged by his physician. Review of the literature justifies encouraging preservation of sexual function postprostatectomy.