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Research has shown that the vast majority of causes of premature ejaculation are psychological in nature. This is good news for most men, as it means that identifying the problem and dealing with it won’t include medicine, probing procedures or an operation.

With many people, their psychological issues originate in childhood, which is quite common. Therapists and researchers long ago realized that the events of our childhood: school yard fights, failures in class, disappointments with parents, and other events are very important in the construction of our psyche. For men, they typically discover sexual self-gratification (masturbation) when they hit puberty. In American society, we tend to frown on this act; many religions openly condemn it. So, boys learn to do it as quickly as possible, to avoid detection, and this can carry over to adulthood. When they begin to engage in sex with a partner, their body is used to climaxing quickly, and thus they do it without thinking.

The problem of premature ejaculation can be extremely distressing, both to the primary sufferers (the men afflicted of it), and their sexual partners.

The problem, in a nutshell

Basically, what happens in premature ejaculation is that a man, during sexual intercourse, ends up ejaculating before their partner has had the opportunity to get satisfied with the intercourse. As we all know, women take a little bit longer than men to achieve penetrative orgasm, so that if a man ejaculates too early on, the woman is left unsatisfied or ‘hanging’ as some people put it. The severity of the premature ejaculation problem varies from case to case, with the worst sufferers being men who end up ejaculating immediately upon gaining vaginal penetration. There are other premature ejaculators who are able to hold for quite some time, but not long enough to satisfy their female partners.

Is premature ejaculation really all that common?

In a word – yes, premature ejaculation affects about 30% of all men; so don’t be embarrassed about it. In fact, some researchers claim that it is a result of our evolution. They reason that male mammals that would ejaculate quickly could both impregnate more females and conclude the mating ritual before a predator came along to eat them.

The exact cause for premature ejaculation is unknown. There are suspected factors that contribute to it, mainly psychological factors, and possibly biological factors.

In the younger years of life, men are inexperienced in their sexual encounters. This leads to him having trouble controlling the natural urges to climax. He is in a hurry in some circumstances so he fails to take his time to allow his partner enjoyment or longer experiences. When a man is young, he is often rushed or not in a private environment where he can take his time. He may feel like he is out of control with the sexual urges so he fails to maintain control and ejaculates quickly. To the youth or inexperienced, reaching climax is a quick process leading to the unconscious habit that can continue onto the later years and other sexual encounters.