GUIDES
EVERYTHING
BEFORE THE EDGE.
Most advice covers the last few seconds. These guides cover what happens before them.
You finish sooner than you want, and you've already tried thinking about something else, and maybe a spray. This is what you can work on yourself: catching the moment when you can still slow down, keeping your breath going when it gets intense, and loosening a body that tightens on its own. No pills, no numbing, no promises about minutes.
Breathing exercises for premature ejaculation
Your breath goes shallow and you hold it as arousal climbs. What slow belly breathing can do, how to practise it, and what it can't do.
How to last longer in bed mentally
Nerves, self-monitoring and trying not to finish can speed you up. Where to put your attention during sex, and how to arrive calmer.
How to last longer in bed naturally
You finish sooner than you want and pills aren't what you're after. Here are the routes without medication, and how to tell which one is yours.
Pelvic floor relaxation for men: how to let go
Squeezing harder hasn't helped? How to tell if your pelvic floor is holding tension, how to relax and lengthen it, and where else your body braces during sex.
The start-stop technique for premature ejaculation
If you finish sooner than you want, here's how to practise the start-stop technique on your own, what it teaches, and what it can't do.
If this has gone on for a long time, hurts, or is straining your relationship, don't sit with it alone on a website. A GP, urologist or sexual-health clinic can check what we can't.