It’s a surprising fact that there are just about as many men who are satisfied with sex which lasts two minutes as there are men who think this duration of intercourse means that they need to learn how to overcome premature ejaculation.
Why such a disparity in attitudes towards this most fundamental sexual attribute (duration of intercourse before ejaculation)?
The fact is, premature ejaculation is a subject mired in personal opinion, prejudice, and personal beliefs. If you believe that sex is about intimacy, and you’re a man who delights in giving his partner orgasms, enjoying ample foreplay and establishing an intimate emotional connection, then you very likely take the trouble to give your partner an orgasm before you even enter her vagina. Since a woman who’s climaxed before you enter her is probably sexually satisfied, at least to some degree, it matters less if you ejaculate within two minutes. This is what I would like to call the behavioral approach to overcoming premature ejaculation.
But if you’re a man who doesn’t enjoy foreplay, or has never been shown the need for it in good sex, then it’s very likely that you’re engaging in perfunctory kissing, caressing, another maybe even missing out completely on other delightful foreplay techniques like oral sex. You probably enter your partner quite quickly, possibly even before she’s ready, using either saliva as a lubricant or some other artificial lubricant; ironically this may make your premature ejaculation even worse, because unlubricated vaginal friction is highly stimulating; in any event, the result may be that you ejaculate within two minutes, before your partner has reached orgasm, and you are then very likely to think that overcoming PE is a most important step on the road to you becoming a better lover.
So you see immediately how perception can influence a man’s attitude to overcoming this very common sexual dysfunction. It’s not easy against such a background of individual priorities to even come up with a universal definition of premature ejaculation which covers all cases, but we can say with some certainty that the key factor in any definition of PE is that the couple is dissatisfied because the man comes too quickly. The deeper point I’m making, however, is that whilst overcoming premature ejaculation might seem like the right approach to resolving this issue, it’s also entirely possible that a simple change in sexual behavior might serve the couple just as well in overcoming this particular sexual dysfunction.