I discovered there have been scientific studies of exactly how long PIV sex lasts before the male orgasm and ejaculation occurs and puts a damper on the festivities. There's even a name for it: intravaginal ejaculation latency time, or IELT (sometimes IVELT) for short. Research was done on over a thousand couples from the Netherlands, UK, Turkey, Spain, and the U.S., first with 500 couples in 2005 then with over 500 more in 2009. It was found that the mean time to ejaculation from first penetration was (only) around 6 minutes, while the average time was 8.5 minutes. The respondents from Turkey were excluded (their mean latency time was only 3.3 minutes) In this kind of study the mean is far more representative, because there were some numbers as high as 50+ minutes! But half of all times were at or below 6 minutes, the broad peak of the plot being between about 2 minutes and 6 minutes.
I find this just amazing, and I can certainly understand why many women might feel more than a little short-changed!
There were other interesting findings: one is that condom use doesn't seem to affect IELT! I never would have guessed that. Another is that circumcised men seem to take somewhat long that uncircumcised men, 6.7 minutes vs 6.0 minutes, but the studies say this isn't statistically significant. Also interesting is that these studies included those with PE, defined I think as men whose IELTs are between zero and 60 seconds... but that is a relatively small population and shouldn't affect the overall conclusion that only lasting less than 6 minutes is pretty typical. Not desirable, maybe, but typical.
Thoughts?
I find this just amazing, and I can certainly understand why many women might feel more than a little short-changed!
There were other interesting findings: one is that condom use doesn't seem to affect IELT! I never would have guessed that. Another is that circumcised men seem to take somewhat long that uncircumcised men, 6.7 minutes vs 6.0 minutes, but the studies say this isn't statistically significant. Also interesting is that these studies included those with PE, defined I think as men whose IELTs are between zero and 60 seconds... but that is a relatively small population and shouldn't affect the overall conclusion that only lasting less than 6 minutes is pretty typical. Not desirable, maybe, but typical.
Thoughts?
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