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What is edging? Edging is a type of sexual stimulation wherein you delay the experience of an orgasm as a form of sexual pleasure.
Once you’re about to orgasm (or “edge”, so to speak), you intentionally halt stroking to stop the climax, then repeat the cycle until you’re ready.
This technique is a healthy activity that’s often heralded for men to achieve better orgasms. But besides that, edging may also support men in conjunction with medical treatment, as a method for improving premature ejaculation.
According to James H. Semans, in a paper published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the “stop-start technique” allows people to participate in sex for a longer time before climaxing.
The edging process starts as follows:
- You stimulate yourself as a form of pleasure.
- Right as you’re about to climax, you stop.
- You wait. The waiting duration lasts for about 30 seconds.
- Stimulate yourself once more.
- Repeat until you feel you stop the cycle by producing an orgasm.
Edging allows you to experience more intense orgasms and may help to make sex last longer for you and your partner. It intends to bring you close to an orgasm, build upon that sensation, and finish the session with a very powerful orgasm.
At a more holistic level, edging makes you more attuned to your body and understand its capacities more. It promotes mindfulness and keeps your mind from wandering since you’re focused on a specific goal. This not only gives you better control of your body, but it also allows you to enjoy the pleasurable feelings to a more intense degree.
Are There Risks Associated with Edging?
There’s little evidence that proves any direct risks to your sex life when you edge. It’s a perfectly normal and healthy sexual activity.
However, it needs to be mentioned that it contributes to delayed ejaculation, or when the penis struggles to ejaculate or reach an orgasm. However, any claim of a direct relationship between these two has little scientific evidence connecting the two phenomena.
Another myth is that edging conditions your body to have delayed orgasms for good. Once again, that’s false. The body has an easy time naturally adjusting to the sexual situation whether it calls for you to edge or to experience an orgasm.
Another risk of edging is when it affects your relationships. If not communicated properly, edging can interfere with your sex life and the satisfaction of your sexual partner, leading to personal distress.
Thus, it’s important to mention that edging shouldn’t get in the way of delaying someone’s pleasure. Always ensure that you communicate effectively when you’re participating in sexual intercourse with your partner.
Four Primary Benefits of Edging
Aside from pleasure, edging comes with a wide range of benefits, including the following.
1. Helps You Achieve Orgasm
For many men and women, trying to achieve an orgasm during a sexual encounter can feel anxiety-inducing. A study found that people who masturbated and edged more often were able to reach orgasm more easily than those who did not.
2. Builds Confidence in Your Own Body
A study that involved over 2000 participants showed that sexual dysfunctions are rarely talked about even with trained medical PE professionals.
By edging, you can understand and be in control of your body’s limits. This data can give you a starting point to bring up any problems in the bedroom and consequently give you a path to improve your sex life.
3. Supports Medical PE Treatment to Improve Sexual Stamina
A Journal of Sexual Medicine study found that men reached an orgasm more than twice as fast as a woman during sexual intercourse.
Edging, therefore, can delay orgasm to train partners to be in sync with each other’s sexual response cycle—creating a more fulfilling sexual relationship. Edging trains men to have longer-lasting sessions in the bedroom. As many men are often concerned with how long sex should last, the potential for delaying ejaculation is often welcomed news.
4. Enhances Mindfulness
Edging requires you to feel in touch with your body and consider the physical sensations surrounding you.This can be beneficial for men and women to be in touch with their bodies as well as have better self-awareness with their limits.
Important Considerations When Edging
Edging can be most easily achieved during masturbation, which may impact testosterone. While you can edge during sex, it’s ideal to attempt the stop-squeeze method from masturbating first to get used to how the process of stimulating yourself in this fashion.
If you plan to edge during intercourse, inform your partner about your intentions and start with slow sex. This way, you can control your body and stop stimulation as needed before reaching a controlled and more pleasurable climax.
Of course, once you get the hang of edging, you and your partner can engage in different sex positions to have experience more variety in the bedroom. As long as both of you are satisfied throughout the process, edging can be successfully attempted in almost any sexual position.
If you’re having a hard time edging (or about your sexual health in general), it can feel concerning. Everyone’s body responds differently; and if you like, you can consult a professional doctor to get a better diagnosis of your situation.
Four Common Edging Techniques
Here are some common edging techniques that you can utilize in the bedroom.
1. Start-Stop Technique
Stroke your penis as you would when masturbating. When you feel like you’re at the brink of an orgasm, stop stroking for a few seconds and repeat. This will extend your pleasure and result in a more intense orgasm.
2. Ballooning
When you stop before an orgasm and perform Kegel exercises (or pelvic floor muscles), you perform a technique known as ballooning. It’s called that because the erection deflates and grows with this method.
3. Squeeze Technique
Some people with a penis may experience longer times when attempting to delay an orgasm. In cases like this, perform edging with the start-stop technique, and stop. Once you stop, squeeze your penis head for 30 seconds then resume stimulating it once more.
4. Diversion Technique
Once you’re about to orgasm, stop then divert by gently touching another part of your body. For example, once you stop stroking your penis, you can have your partner stimulate your chest or your mouth.
Contact a Premature Ejaculation Medical Specialist for Help Lasting Longer
Edging is a fun and normal way to prolong pleasure in the bedroom, either through masturbation or with a partner.
As always, sexual experimentation isn’t always going to be the same for everyone. If you or your partner don’t particularly enjoy this practice, that’s okay.
But for those who want to feel more pleasurable orgasms, this method can give you that little boost to aid you in achieving it.
If you’re having issues with erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation, call the professionals at Priority Men’s Medical Center now to schedule an appointment to have a consultation with our experienced and specially trained medical staff. We are Atlanta’s leading men’s clinic providing ED therapy, PE therapy, Acoustic Wave therapy, hormone therapy, and much more.
