How Long Does Average Sex Last

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For many of us men, the moment we first became aware of sexual intercourse was also the moment we began to fret about it.
With all the sultry R&B songs crooning about going “all night” and the societal shame communicated through movies which poked fun at feeble guys who came “too fast,” it’s natural for there to be some trepidation regarding how long sex should last . This typically centers on two related questions:
These are internal questions that haunt men from puberty on through their later years. Associated with these are concerns over bedroom-related anxieties like erectile dysfunction , premature ejaculation , and even delayed ejaculation . We are seemingly always on the lookout for the best way to find the “goldilocks” answer to sexual duration.
Let’s get specific though—what does the science say about sexual stamina ?
Firstly, it should be understood that there is no agreed upon method for measuring what constitutes “sex.”
For some men—and some studies—sex is strictly comprised of intercourse; lasting from insertion through the completion of the male orgasm. In other cases, it can include foreplay and the amount of time necessary for both partners to achieve climax. Again, there are two main questions that require answers:
These are only two of the reasons there doesn’t appear to be general consensus for how long sex should last either among the scientific community or anecdotally.
The bottom line is there has been very limited research based on this particular question to date. Broadly speaking, the most cited studies consider only penile and vaginal intercourse, also known as intravaginal ejaculatory latency time, or IELT. This naturally only takes into account heterosexual relationships however, and also bases results only on the time leading to male orgasm .
One of the most popular and substantial studies available was conducted across multiple countries in 2005. This study measured IELT specifically, and under these strict parameters found that the average sexual session lasted right around five and a half minutes .
A few years later, in 2008, a study which consulted therapists who diagnose sexual disorders distributed results into several categories based on their patients’ reported length of intercourse. The data further reinforced the idea that between three and seven minutes was adequate , while between seven and thirteen minutes was considered desirable.
This same study determined that less than three minutes may warrant clinical concern, while anything over ten minutes was generally “too long.”
This study also neglected to take into account foreplay or other kinds of sexual intercourse outside of penile and vaginal.
Most recently, a 2020 study which focused on heterosexual women found the average time to achieve orgasm was around thirteen and a half minutes —a period which might have fallen under “too long” under the 2008 study’s parameters.
Review enough of the available scientific research, and clarity becomes harder to reach rather than easier. The bottom line appears to be that, under the strict definition of penile and vaginal intercourse, sex (defined by the male orgasm) should only last for a few minutes.
Where science fails about average sex time , personal experience and connection will succeed, however.
Understanding what you and your partner both desire, and working to achieve that satisfaction together is far more important than racing an imaginary clock. Pleasure for all parties involved should be your first and foremost concern in the bedroom, and keep in mind that preferences for shorter or longer sessions are as varied as the individuals participating.
While being too hard on yourself for your average sex time isn’t helpful. But it’s important to recognize if you’re facing sexual dysfunction that should be addressed. This includes erectile dysfunction , premature ejaculation , low testosterone , among other dysfunctions that men commonly face. In fact, erectile dysfunction affects nearly half of all men over 40 to some degree.
With that in mind, there are several techniques that can be implemented to either shorten or lengthen the time you and your partner require for maximum enjoyment that can be practiced in tandem with the guidance of a sexual health professional. For example, those hoping to lessen the time to achieve orgasm might consider:
On the other hand, men interested in lasting longer in bed should incorporate the following:
At the end of the day, personal preference trumps everything else. Because there are so many ways to define what constitutes sex, as well as how long the act should last, it’s essential not to compare your performance with that of anyone else’s. The lack of clarity is a gift in this manner, allowing you to instead focus on what’s best for you and your partner.
As with nearly everything having to do with our bodies, a consultation with a qualified medical professional will go a long way toward clearing up any concerns or addressing actual dysfunctions.
If you’re having issues with average sex time related to erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation , or other ejaculation problems , call the team at Priority Men’s Medical Center in Atlanta now to schedule an appointment to have a consultation with their experienced and specially trained medical staff. We are a leading men’s clinic providing ED therapy, PE therapy, Acoustic Wave therapy, hormone therapy, and much more.

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If you’re a non-scientist, you might have once asked yourself, propped against the bedhead after disappointingly quick intercourse, how long does sex “normally” last?
A scientist, though, would phrase the same question in an almost comically obscure way: What is the mean intravaginal ejaculation latency time?
I know there’s a lot more to sex than putting the penis into the vagina and ejaculating, but the rest is not always easy to define (kissing? Rubbing? Grinding?). To keep things simple and specific, we’ll just focus on the time to ejaculation.
Measuring an average time to ejaculation is not a straightforward matter. What about just asking people how long they take , you say? Well, there are two main problems with this. One is that people are likely to be biased upwards in their time estimates, because it’s socially desirable to say you go long into the night.
The other problem is that people don’t necessarily know how long they go for. Sex isn’t something people normally do while monitoring the bedside clock, and unassisted time estimation may be difficult during a transportative session of love-making.
The best study we have estimating the average time to ejaculation in the general population involved 500 couples from around the world timing themselves having sex over a four-week period – using a stopwatch.
That is as practically awkward as it sounds: participants pressed “start” at penile penetration and “stop” at ejaculation. You may note this could affect the mood somewhat, and might perhaps not exactly reflect the natural flow of things. But – science is rarely perfect, and this is the best we’ve got.
So what did the researchers find? The most striking result is that there was a huge amount of variation. The average time for each couple (that is, averaged across all the times they had sex) ranged from 33 seconds to 44 minutes. That’s an 80-fold difference.
So it’s clear there’s no one “normal” amount of time to have sex. The average (median, technically) across all couples, though, was 5.4 minutes. This means that if you line up the 500 couples from shortest sex to longest sex, the middle couple goes for an average of 5.4 minutes each time they do it.
There were some interesting secondary results, too. For example, condom use didn’t seem to affect the time, and neither did men’s being circumcised or not, which challenges some conventional wisdom regarding penile sensitivity and its relationship to staying power in the sack.
It didn’t much matter which country the couples came from either – unless they came from Turkey, in which case their sex tended to be significantly shorter (3.7 minutes) than couples from other countries (Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Another surprising finding was that the older the couple, the shorter the sex, contrary to the prevailing wisdom (probably peddled by older men).
As an evolutionary researcher, all this talk of how long sex lasts make me wonder: Why does it last any time at all? All sex really needs to achieve, it seems, is to put sperm into the vagina. Why all the thrusting and bumping? Instead of sliding the penis in and out many hundreds of times per sexual session, why not just put it in once, ejaculate, and then go have a lemonade and get on with the rest of the day?
Before you say, Because it’s fun to go in and out! , remember evolution doesn’t care about fun per se – it generally only “designs” things to be enjoyable if they helped our ancestors pass on their genes to future generations. For example, even though we like eating food, we don’t chew each mouthful of it for five minutes just to make the enjoyment last longer. That would be inefficient, and so we’ve evolved to find it gross.
Why we last so long is a pretty complicated question with no clear answer, but a clue may be in the way the penis is shaped. In 2003, researchers showed – using artificial vaginas, artificial penises, and artificial sperm (corn syrup) – that the ridge around the head of the penis actually scoops out pre-existing syrup from the vagina.
What this suggests is that men’s repeated thrusting might function to displace other men’s semen before ejaculating, ensuring their own swimmers have a better chance of reaching the egg first. Incidentally, this could explain why it becomes painful for a man to continue thrusting after ejaculating, since that would risk scooping out his own semen as well.
So what to do with this information? My advice would be to try not to think about it during the throes of passion.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .

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You came here looking for an answer, and an answer I will give you: Sex should last one hour, 34 minutes, and 22 seconds—the exact runtime of Wayne's World .
Shyeah, right! While I have a lot of respect (and follow-up questions) for anyone who’s regularly managing to bone for the duration of a feature film, of course I’m joking. There isn’t a specific length of time that sex should last, but people tend to conflate longer sex with better sex. Marathon sex sessions are used as a measurement of just how steamy an evening was. And while quickies can be fun, they should constitute a piece of a balanced sex life—not the whole thing. They’re like the candy and ice cream part of the food pyramid—very tasty, just not intended for everyday sustenance.
While there's no magic number, one study back in 2005 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine asked a bunch of sex therapists for their opinions on how long sex should last. Their guidelines separated sex into four categories: adequate, too short, too long, and desirable. They rated penetrative vaginal sex that lasted from 1-2 minutes as “too short,” and sex that lasted 10-30 minutes as “too long.” Meanwhile, “adequate” sex lasted 3-7 minutes and desirable sex lasted 7-13 minutes.
It’s difficult to get good data on the amount of time the average person spends getting freaky—are you keeping track of how long you’re humping and pumping?—especially because sex can be defined in a myriad of ways. For example, some people (and most studies) are only counting penetrative sex, which isn’t a particularly effective way to measure sex, since it’s both extremely heteronorm
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