- 19 Apr 2024 16:32
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I recently heard a video where Penn Jillette (world famous magician) claimed that it takes males on average 2 minutes to reach sexual climax, whereas it takes females on average 20 minutes to reach sexual climax. He was using this as a reason to claim that we were not created by God, because God would have aligned our sexual climaxes to match each other in duration.
If this factoid is really true, it raises a question for me that I don't understand, and would like an answer to.
The question is about the concept of "premature ejaculation". This is diagnosed as a medical problem for a lot of men. But if what Penn Jillette says is true, then isn't this just normal behavior based on averages? Or, is the fact that men on average reach climax faster a medical problem in and of itself, inherent to the sex? Wouldn't most males then, in some sense be biologically built to ejaculate "prematurely", and in that sense, is it really so much a "medical" problem as it as a problem of culture/social norms in that the relationship suffers due to the non-matching climax times?
To put it another way, couldn't one reason that females have the opposite "medical" condition, since their longer average climax time causes problems by not matching the short time of the male? Couldn't we diagnose the average female as having "delayed" climax time?
To me it just seems like a lot hinges on Penn's claim, if it's really true.
If this factoid is really true, it raises a question for me that I don't understand, and would like an answer to.
The question is about the concept of "premature ejaculation". This is diagnosed as a medical problem for a lot of men. But if what Penn Jillette says is true, then isn't this just normal behavior based on averages? Or, is the fact that men on average reach climax faster a medical problem in and of itself, inherent to the sex? Wouldn't most males then, in some sense be biologically built to ejaculate "prematurely", and in that sense, is it really so much a "medical" problem as it as a problem of culture/social norms in that the relationship suffers due to the non-matching climax times?
To put it another way, couldn't one reason that females have the opposite "medical" condition, since their longer average climax time causes problems by not matching the short time of the male? Couldn't we diagnose the average female as having "delayed" climax time?
To me it just seems like a lot hinges on Penn's claim, if it's really true.