A Clinical Investigation to Assess the Effectiveness of Benzocaine in NRL Condoms in Healthy Adult Men Who Feel They Ejaculate Too Quickly During Vaginal Sex

An Open Label, Randomised, 3-way Cross-over, Single-centre, Clinical Investigation to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Benzocaine in Two NRL Condoms Compared With a Standard NRL Control Without Benzocaine in Prolonging Time to Ejaculation in Healthy Adult Men Who Feel They Ejaculate Too Quickly During Vaginal Sex

The investigation is to evaluate the effectiveness of benzocaine in two NRL condoms compared with a standard NRL control without benzocaine in prolonging time to ejaculation in healthy adult men who feel they ejaculate too quickly during vaginal sex.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Ejaculation Delayed
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Test condom A (NRL condom with 5% benzocaine paste); Device: Test condom B (NRL condom with 3% benzocaine paste); Device: Control NRL condom

Detailed Description

In this investigation, two NRL condoms with benzocaine paste (Test condom A and Test condom B) will be evaluated against a standard NRL male condom (Control condom) in prolonging time to ejaculation in healthy adult men who feel they ejaculate too quickly during vaginal sex.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 300
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Britta Baden; Phone Number: +49 40 839 358 0; Email: bbaden@proderm.de

Study Locations

• Germany
  • Hamburg, Germany
    • Recruiting
    • SGS proderm GmbH
    • Contact: Britta Baden

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Main Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects and their female partners have provided written informed consent.
2. Subjects and their female partners between the ages of >= 18 years and =< 60 years.
3. Subjects and their female partners must have no health condition in their medical history.
4. Subject must be sexually active having regular intercourse.
5. Subjects in a stable, monogamous, sexual relationship with the same female partner for more than or equal to 3 months.
6. Subject's female partner should already be on an established other highly effective form of non-barrier contraception, unless post-menopausal.
7. Subjects reporting a frequency of 'occasionally' to the Sexual Intercourse Self-Estimation Scale.

Main Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subject with a pregnant or breastfeeding female partner or the female partner desires to become pregnant during the clinical investigation.
2. Subject or his female partner with a current history of alcohol or drug abuse.
3. Subjects and their female partners with a history of or are suffering from anemia, coronary artery disease, impaired cardiac conduction, pulmonary disease, diabetes, and renal or hepatic disease.
4. Subjects and their female partners with a history of, suspected to have, or be at increased risk of methaemoglobinemia / complications related to ester anaesthetics which could trigger methemoglobinemia.

5. Subject and/or his female partner have a physical or psychological condition that would prevent them from following investigation procedures - including but not limited to the following:

   1. urological disease,
   2. ongoing significant psychiatric disorder not controlled by medication
   3. history of surgery or injury to the pelvis, retroperitoneal surgery, radiotherapy, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, chronic inflammation of the prostate or urethra
   4. relevant previous or planned genital surgery
   5. female partner that has been diagnosed with or treated for vaginal complaints (including vaginal dryness)
   6. any broken skin or wounds in the genital area.
6. Subjects on medication that is contraindicated, which may affect erection.
7. Subject and/or his female partner have any medication which may affect the safety of the subject, including but not limited to benzocaine drug interactions such as cholinesterase inhibitors.
8. Subject and/or his female partner is using or intends to continue to use antibiotics of the sulphonamide type.
9. Subject with premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, hypo or hyperthyroidism, hypogonadism, hyperprolactinemia, ejaculatory dysfunction, haemorrhagic disorder, hepatitis B or C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or having had penile implant surgery.
10. Subject that has been diagnosed or received treatment for PE (premature ejaculation).
11. Subjects with confirmed erectile dysfunction, hypo or hyperthyroidism, hypogonadism, hyperprolactinemia.
12. Confirmed diagnosis of male subjects with other forms of ejaculatory dysfunction.
13. Subjects that have had prior genital, prostatic or lower tract surgery.
14. Subjects with haemorrhagic disorder, hepatitis B or C, HIV infection or having had penile implant surgery, at any time in their past.
15. Either partner needed to use condoms for a specific STI protection.
16. Subjects and their female partners who have any relevant history of allergy including local anaesthetics, parabens, PABA, commercial hair dyes, paraphenylenediamine, lubricants and latex.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Test condom A (NRL condom with 5% benzocaine paste); Following randomization, each subject will be given one set of 8 condoms as per randomisation schedule. After reporting at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation), subjects will return to the clinical site for collection of their next set of condoms.	Device: Test condom A (NRL condom with 5% benzocaine paste); In each assessment period, subjects will be provided with a condom type to use during vaginal intercourse and will report at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation) over a 4-week period. Subjects will repeat the assessment period each to test all 3 condom types.
Experimental: Test condom B (NRL condom with 3% benzocaine paste); Following randomization, each subject will be given one set of 8 condoms as per randomisation schedule. After reporting at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation), subjects will return to the clinical site for collection of their next set of condoms.	Device: Test condom B (NRL condom with 3% benzocaine paste); In each assessment period, subjects will be provided with a condom type to use during vaginal intercourse and will report at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation) over a 4-week period. Subjects will repeat the assessment period each to test all 3 condom types.
Placebo Comparator: Control NRL condom; Following randomization, each subject will be given one set of 8 condoms as per randomisation schedule. After reporting at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation), subjects will return to the clinical site for collection of their next set of condoms.	Device: Control NRL condom; IIn each assessment period, subjects will be provided with a condom type to use during vaginal intercourse and will report at least 4 duration records (from vaginal entry to ejaculation) over a 4-week period. Subjects will repeat the assessment period each to test all 3 condom types.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To determine the effectiveness of benzocaine of the Test Condom A compared with the Control NRL Condom at prolonging time to ejaculation	Subjects will be recording the duration (time in minutes:seconds) from vaginal entry to ejaculation for each condom use. The outcome is evaluated by the change from baseline with the Test Condom A compared to the Control NRL Condom, over a 4-week assessment period.	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To determine the effectiveness of benzocaine of the Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom at prolonging time to ejaculation	Subjects will be recording the duration (time in minutes:seconds) from vaginal entry to ejaculation for each condom use. The outcome is evaluated by the change from baseline with the Test Condom B compared to the Control NRL Condom, over a 4-week assessment period.	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
To determine the effectiveness of benzocaine of the Test Condom A and Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom at prolonging time to ejaculation for an increase of 2, 3 and 4 minutes	Subjects will be recording the duration (time in minutes:seconds) from vaginal entry to ejaculation for each condom use. The outcome is evaluated by the proportion of subjects who achieve an increase of 2, 3 and 4 minutes from baseline in each of the Test Condom A and Test Condom B compared to the Control NRL Condom.	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
To evaluate the sexual pleasure when using the Test Condom A or Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom	The outcome is assessed by the measure of EMSEX (Event-level Male Sexual) pleasure scale questionnaire, a subject perceived questionnaire, at the end of a 4-week assessment period when using Test Condom A or Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom. EMSEX pleasure scale is a 11-item scale which assesses sexual pleasure at the event level. For each item, the range spans the entirety of the potential range from 0 (zero) to 100 (one hundred).	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
To evaluate the subject's improvement at "lasting longer" for both the Test Condom A and Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom	The outcome is assessed by the measure of Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC), a subject perceived questionnaire, at the end of a 4-week assessment period when using Test Condom A or Test Condom B compared with the Control NRL Condom. The PGIC is a 7-point response scale (Very much better, Better, Little better, No change, Little worse, Worse, Very much worse).	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
Subject's experience on the use of each type of condoms [Acceptability and In-Use Tolerability]	Acceptability and in-use tolerability as assessed by subject perceived questionnaires	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
Total clinical failure rate of each type of condoms	Number of clinical failure events (clinical slippage or clinical breakage) reported by subjects.	4 weeks for each assessment period (intervention duration)
Overall proportion of subjects with Adverse Events/Adverse Device Effects (AE/ADEs)	Overall proportion of subjects with Adverse Events/Adverse Device Effects (AE/ADEs) i.e. the occurrence of one of more AE/ADE per subject	19 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Limited
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Kirstin Deuble-Bente, Medical Doctor, SGS proderm GmbH

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 19, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 21, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 21, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): May 3, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 25, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 24, 2024
• Last Verified: January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Physiological Effects of Drugs; Central Nervous System Depressants; Peripheral Nervous System Agents; Sensory System Agents; Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Benzocaine
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5078401

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: IPD will be shared as per local regulations.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No