Can Masturbation Cause Premature Ejaculation?

Hey guys, this is a very important video. Can masturbation cause premature ejaculation? Lets science the truth out of this statement.

Who doesn’t love to masturbate? Masturbation as a practice is rampantly being practiced these days by men of almost all ages. It seems the entire scientific community have normalized the practice of masturbation as a normal part of adult sexual development. There seems to be no recommendation about a male masturbation limit.

Furthermore, many patients do not realize that masturbation and constant porn watching can wreck their personal relationships with their partners.

In a previous post we discussed on whether and can masturbation cause erection problems?. However, in this post we will discuss elaborately on how masturbation can lead to premature ejaculation.

Firstly, we must understand ‘what is premature ejaculation‘?

To put it simply, men with premature ejaculation (PE) can seldom hold or control their ejaculation. These men ejaculation within a minute of vaginal penetration.

Moreover, the ejaculation can happen even during foreplay. This is probably the most sever form of premature ejaculation. Most men do not realize that premature ejaculation is the most commonest sexual dysfunction. It affects close to 40% of men who are in a sexual relationship.

Premature ejaculation wrecks your partner. She is going to go mad!.

Jokes apart, when women don’t achieve their orgasm due to PE in men, things in the relationship can go really messy. Ultimately, the relationship breaks down.

But, how on earth is all this linked with masturbation?

Here is a simple example I use while advising patients. What would happen should you go to buffet meals everyday? Say for breakfast?

Now, You and I both know, that a buffet meal is 100 times better to look at and taste plus has more variety compared to the same boring breakfast. However, if you eat full-stomach in the buffet meal, what happens? You will eventually upset your stomach, get obese and suffer miserably in the long run.

Pornography and masturbation is actually the buffet meal you consume on a daily basis. Get the point?

You get to see a variety of women in porn. All the while, your brain gets conditioned to highly erotic visual stimuli. Most importantly, what happens here is that, the first time you may be able to hold your erection. The second time, you will watch something even more erotic.

Consequently, with more higher levels of erotica what happens is that, your brains ejaculation latency time would decrease!. Thus leading to Premature Ejaculation.

If these issues where not enough, from a neurological view-point your brain takes an active note of the ‘ejaculation time’. Eventually, the time to ejaculation get fixed at <1 minute simply because your brain has become habituated to the premature ejaculation.

To summarize, this process of habituation is the single most biggest issue that results in premature ejaculation.

Once this process sets in, you will end with up with anxiety and avoid sex, since you know well that you cant last long. The fact that you have PE itself will kill your sexual drive.

Moreover, you will also lose erectile function during partnered sex. Why? the performance anxiety that developed will kill your erection.

Now, going back to our example of buffet meal versus regular idli’s, what happens if you do not try a variety of different sexual stimuli?

What if you do not try casual sex? OR

What if you do not try something sexually exotic all the time?

What if you stick to ‘having sexual intercourse only with your stable partner’? (Idli’s everyday). Remember, here I am not even referring to marriage. It is just a stable partner relationship. Nothing more.

Well basically what happens is that, you get used to your partners body. Furthermore, you get used to the visual stimuli that your partners body is going to generate.

Eventually, every little erotic stimuli your partners body generates, you get used to it. Including smell (another important sexual cue).

Consequently, over a period of time, with the help of medications and certain exercises, we can help you achieve a control over your ejaculation.

This is because your brain has just one kind of ‘stimuli input’ to process and does not have to deal with a wide variety of sexually arousing inputs.

But, for all this to happen, you need to let go of masturbatory behavior. You definitely need to let go of watching porn as well.

So, can masturbation cause premature ejaculation?

Its a definite yes. Close to 85% of my patients who masturbate complaint of premature ejaculation. Unfortunately, this is a problem. I hope you liked this short blog post. Please share and drop in your comments below.

This is Dr Shah, consultant andrologist and sexologist, and I will catch up with you soon with another interesting article.

References

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02674659808406567