Researchers theorize that there are different causes to premature ejaculation.
There are behavioral causes to P.E. and physiological causes. However, most men have a combination of both of these and the two can be heavily related.
There is a mental factor that thousands of men, MOST of whom don’t even know it, are suffering from on a daily basis.
The mental factor is ‘embarrassment’ and ‘fear’ over the possiblity of premature ejaculation.
While the internet is filled with all types of gimmicks on how to stop premature ejaculation and to help fight the urge to ejaculate, nothing has proven to work as well as mental stability.
I’m NOT saying that men who ejaculate prematurely are crazy or unstable. What I mean is your thoughts can greatly reduce inhibitory chemicals which delay ejaculation.
More on this in a moment…
First, let’s take a look at what’s really happening in your body from a medical point of view.
Doc, what is the medical reason for premature ejaculation?
While the medical explanation on how and why a man ejaculates is easy to explain and proven by science, the problem of premature ejaculation has remained a bit of a mystery until now!
First let’s take a look at how you are wired physiologically and what happens when you ejaculate.
When a man is sexually aroused, whether by sight or physical contact, hormones are released in the brain that dilate blood vessels in the penis causing an erection.
Men who ejaculate prematurely suffer from a hormonal imbalance. Studies suggest that men with low levels of a neurotransmitter called serotonin are more likely to suffer from P.E.
The cause of some men producing serotonin more slowly than others is directly related to the ‘thoughts’ being produced in your mind. These ‘thoughts’ actually reduce serotonin resulting in rapid ejaculation.
Here’s the problem:
Many of these thoughts can NOT be controlled by you. It’s just impossible. They may even be subconscious thoughts that you are NOT EVEN AWARE that you’re experiencing.
Ejaculation is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system as opposed to the parasympathetic nervous system.
What does this mean?
It means that you have NO control over ejaculation, it’s a simple reflex.
Remember when you were a kid and the doctor used to tap you on the knee with his instrument, and your leg would kick? The doctor was testing your “reflexes.”
This is an example of the sympathetic nervous system. You can’t control it. The moment that instrument hit your knee, chemicals were released in the spinal cord that instantaneously caused you to kick your leg up. No matter how hard you tried not to move your leg, you couldn’t “will” it into not moving.
The same holds true for ejaculation. It’s a reflex. Once those chemicals have been released in your spinal cord, your body is told to ejaculate. No matter how hard you try to control it, you simply can’t.
It’s just the way a reflex is.
So for you to think you can help yourself and “think” your way into preventing premature ejaculation is not realistic.
This is where medicine has a place.
Brain chemicals can have an inhibitory effect on spinal messages. The important chemical that can inhibit spinal cord messages is called serotonin.
For years physicians have been using medication known as SSRI’s. This stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. These medications have been used most widely to treat depression and anxiety.
Interestingly, physicians have found that SSRI’s effectively treat a very high percentage of men with P.E. and physicians have prescribed SSRI’s as a premature ejaculation solution for years.
SSRI’s increase the level of serotonin. This increase is crucial if one wants to help P.E.