--- title: Real Reason Women Hate Premature Ejaculation During Sex description: Men concentrate so hard on lasting a long time in bed, that they forget about women's needs canonical: https://time.com/107405/premature-ejaculation-study/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-21T15:50:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:20.600Z og:title: Here's the Real Reason Women Hate Premature Ejaculation og:description: Men concentrate so hard on lasting a long time in bed, that they forget about women's needs og:url: https://time.com/107405/premature-ejaculation-study/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb72e179357318861/6986905135ba6f0641c0216b/137062637.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5280 og:image:height: 2970 og:image:alt: 137062637 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Real Reason Women Hate Premature Ejaculation twitter:description: Men concentrate so hard on lasting a long time in bed, that they forget about women's needs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb72e179357318861/6986905135ba6f0641c0216b/137062637.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the Real Reason Women Hate Premature Ejaculation > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 21, 2014 3:50 PM UTC  Couple with relationship problems in bed Couple with relationship problems in bed Peter Dazeley—Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 21, 2014 3:50 PM UTC The wives and girlfriends of men who suffer from premature ejaculation are often frustrated—but it’s not for the reason you may think, according to a [new study](http://www.eurekalert.org/pub%5Freleases/2014-05/uoz-wrs052014.php). A clinical psychologist at the University of Zurich surveyed more than 1,500 women in Mexico, Italy and South Korea and found that women don’t necessarily want intercourse to last longer. “It is not the short duration of the act of lovemaking that is primarily regarded as the main source of sexual frustration by the majority of women, but the fact that the man is focused too strongly on delaying ejaculation. As a result, he ignores the sexual needs of the woman and is unable to satisfy her individual desires,” the study said. 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