Why does he take so long to cum? | Horny on Main

Audience Q: He takes a really long time to climax every time. What are the possible reasons? 

Melody and Elena call in the big guns (Elena’s Dad Nic - an actual sex and relationships therapist) to answer the questions within this question: What is ‘too long’ when it comes to cumming? What might be causing it? And how can you work together to make sure everyone involved is enjoying sex, rather than enduring it?

“One of the really good outcomes of having any sort of sexual difficulty in a relationship is that it starts the conversation… If you want to have good sex for a lifetime you’ve got to learn how to do this at some point because, if you live long enough, you will run into barriers in your sex life. So developing the skills and confidence to have these conversations is vital.” - Nic Beets

There has been limited scientific research, mainly focusing on heterosexual couples and measuring the time of penis-in-vagina intercourse until the male ejaculates. In one of these studies the mean time across all participants was 5.4 minutes, with some couples averaging under a minute and others averaging over 40 minutes, so there is an enormous variety.

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