A Pennsylvania federal judge has denied prison officials’ motions for summary judgment in a civil rights suit by a prisoner who was denied medication to treat retrograde ejaculation because of the prison’s policy that ejaculation is forbidden.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled in Michtavi v. Scism that there was a question of fact as to whether treatment of retrograde ejaculation—a condition in which semen enters the bladder instead of through the penis during orgasm—is a serious medical need.
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