Can chronic prostatitis affect sexual function?

Can chronic prostatitis affect sexual function? Dr. Lee, who studies traditional Chinese medicine would like to share her knowledge of the relationship between chronic prostatitis and sexual dysfunction with us. She indicates that sexual dysfunction, in the current medical, is usually considered as a result of the patient's own psychological barriers. For instance, early in the disease, owing to prostatitis has a bad influence on the testis, patients feel pain when ejaculate or in abdominal perineal. Naturally, they are prone to worry about the occurrence of sexual dysfunction, or be afraid of transmitting the pathogen to their partners, as a result, they refuse sex, which often leads to loss of libido. Under this situation, stress and depression can be huge exaggerated, gradually, dysfunction appears. Dr. Lee says she admits that she has put more emphasis on psychological factors in the above statement. In fact, prostatitis does have something with sexual dysfunction. However in her point of view, the relationship between them is not causality, but interaction. Prostatitis is not the arch-criminal for sexual dysfunction, it is also a victim.