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Is premature ejaculation psychological?
Felix Economakis explains that in most cases, premature ejaculation is psychological, and is caused by performance anxiety.
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Is premature ejaculation psychological? In most cases, yes it is. It's another form of performance anxiety. Sometimes people have a lot of anxiety getting an erection in the first place. They're wondering, will I perform? Will it get hard in time? And sometimes people worry about, will I cum too quickly? It's just a variation of fear. It's people worrying that, I'm not going to do this right and there'll be disastrous consequences.