Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Does the Refractory Period Get Longer With Age? #RefractoryPeriod #MensHealth #shorts

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Dr. Anne Truong addresses the widely held belief that men’s post‑ejaculatory refractory period inevitably lengthens with age. She points out that, despite the common consensus that the refractory period can stretch from minutes in young adulthood to hours or even days in older men, there is virtually no direct clinical research in humans that isolates age as the causal factor. The majority of the existing data come from animal studies—primarily rats—making the human evidence base surprisingly thin and largely inferential.

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There is almost no published clinical data directly providing that age alone increases refractory period. If you look up the male post-ejaculation refractory period, you'll find almost universally agreement that it naturally gets longer as men age, taking anywhere from minutes in the young adulthood to hours or even days later in life. Here's what might surprise you. There is almost no published clinical data directly providing that age alone increases refractory period. Yes, I know, surprisingly, right? Most of the studies actually come from rats, believe it or not. The human evidence base surrounding the refractory period is surprisingly very thin.