And of course also that there are different ways to have sex that can be just as enjoyable.” “That is, the man receives information about the normal length of sexual intercourse and at the same time learns that there’s a lot of variation between people and couples. “Treatment in that case might initially consist of so-called psychoeducation,” says Jern. You can always raise your concerns with your doctor, or with a psychologist or sexologist.Īnd you can still get help even if you don't qualify for a diagnosis. If you as a man can have intercourse for five to six minutes, but still find this too short – what should you do?īente Træen is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo (Photo: Lasse Moer / UiO) Shift away from negative focus But another thing is what you and your partner want in your sex life. What is considered statistically normal is one thing. The median intercourse duration in the study was just over five minutes, but appeared to get shorter with participant age, and the duration also varied slightly between the five countries. The shortest intercourse duration in the study lasted 55 seconds, while the longest bumped along for over 44 minutes. The couples initiated sex after starting a stopwatch, and foreplay and afterplay weren’t counted.
And anywhere from ten to 30 minutes was too long, according to the combined responses from the therapists.Ī study in the same journal from 2005 suggests huge variability in how long sex lasts for heterosexual couples.įive hundred heterosexual couples from five countries timed their intercourse over a four-week period. Under two minutes was too short, they thought. In a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2008, American and Canadian couples therapists estimated the ideal duration of sexual intercourse.Ĭonclusion: anywhere from seven to 15 minutes. “Premature ejaculation is probably a real problem for those who experience it,” says Træen. They did not ask how fast the men reached orgasm. In the new study, the researchers asked men whether they had experienced premature ejaculation during the past year, and over a period of three months. Træen was also one of the researchers behind the 2009 study in which many Norwegian men reported problems with premature ejaculation. “So it’s pretty common for people to worry about this, even when objectively they have normal intercourse duration,” he says.īente Træen and her colleagues – in a new study that they haven’t yet analysed the data from – surveyed people on the last time they had intercourse. But only one to two percent of men report that intercourse usually takes about one minute or less,” says Jern. “It’s usually the case that about 30 percent of men who are asked worry about not being able to control their ejaculation well enough. “According to the statistics then, any intercourse that lasts between one and 15 minutes would be considered ‘normal’”, the Finnish researcher says. If you look at the average length for intercourse in Europe, it’s about eight minutes, but that varies dramatically, says Jern.Īnd statistically, it is normal to deviate up to seven minutes from the average. Boy to boys sexy movies.Patrick Jern does research on premature ejaculation.