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How can stress cause premature ejaculation?
Felix Economakis explains that stress can contribute to premature ejaculation because it causes a person to give themselves performance anxiety.
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Stress can contribute to premature ejaculation, in that a person is giving themselves performance anxiety. The ideal environment for sex is no pressure, no expectation, carefree and spontaneous. What stress does, is it starts to worry, and when we worry, we start to think about bad things happening, or we start to kick in fight or flight or freezing responses, which of course are not good in the bedroom.