
Vanessa Marin and Xander Marin define four sexual performance issues: erectile difficulties, early ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, and inability to orgasm. They stress that these aren't defined by fixed timelines but by how they feel to the person experiencing them.
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So let's talk about what performance issues actually are. We're talking about four things here. Erectile difficulties, which is the inability to get or maintain an erection. So actually, that's like a little two in one special there. Early ejaculation, like orgasming quickly. And the interesting thing about early ejaculation is there's not really any set definition. Like, there's no sex therapist standards. Yeah. So typically, as a sex therapist, like, when I work with clients, what I talk about is, like, them just feeling like they don't have control over their orgasm. Like, it's just happening quickly. They're not able to slow it down at all.
Then we're also talking about delayed ejaculation, which is when you take a particularly long time to reach orgasm. So again, there is no benchmark for this kind of like, early ejaculation. So just like early ejaculation is like, it feels like you're not in control of how fast you come or you're just coming much faster than you really would like to. Delayed ejaculation is the same. It is taking you a lot longer to. Than you would like it to. And then finally, inability to orgasm at all. So delayed ejaculation would be like, you can do it. It just takes a long time or it takes some extra or whatever it is. Inability to orgasm would just be, you know, you're trying. You are not able to get there regardless of what you do or how long you do it.
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