In general the term "premature ejaculation" implies that the male orgasm happened before it was time. And it is known as the most common sexual problem affecting a great number of men around the world. Recently, there was a survey made of several thousand British males, and the results indicated that approximately 10 per cent of them stated that often or sometimes they had this trouble.

Many medical studies suggest that this condition is more common in younger males than in older, experienced males. However, not every mature male is able to acquire the ejaculatory control he would like to have only with the years and the experience of different sexual partners. According to a 2004 survey made in Europe, it showed that a considerable number of middle-aged men still have this problem and are looking for an effective treatment for premature ejaculation.

Premature Ejaculation is believed to be a psychological problem and does not represent any known organic disease involving the male reproductive tract or any known lesions in the brain or nervous system. In short, PE is not a physiological problem or disease, though it manifests physiologically by considering the organ systems directly affected , this is the male reproductive tract.

No one can deny that premature ejaculation matters in the life of the man suffering from this condition, it matters mainly because it makes the couple and the man unhappy and frustrated. And in cases of severe PE it can even threaten or even ruin a marriage because it spoils the sex lives of both partners. Sometimes, the condition is so advanced and frustrating that the man cannot even manage to have intercourse with the partner because he invariably ejaculates before he can get into the vagina. This can be devastating for a man's self-confidence. And, of course, it can be hugely frustrating and annoying for his partner, too.

Apart from the dissatisfaction in the sexual life of the partners and the stress this situation brings to the relation as it was mentioned before; if ejaculation continually occurs so early that it happens before commencement of sexual intercourse, as it does in the grave cases of premature ejaculation, and the couple is attempting pregnancy, then pregnancy is impossible to achieve unless artificial insemination is used. The good news is that premature ejaculation is curable and every man suffering from this condition can regain his sexual life in just a few weeks.