Can holding in your pee boost your sex life and prolong ejaculation?

Marni Kinrys, a U.S. dating coach, says holding in urine for five seconds at a time strengthens the Kegel, or pelvic, muscles. This, in turn, can improve a man’s performance in the bedroom if practised often enough.

Kegel, or pubococcygeus (PC) muscles help with bladder function and ejaculation, but become weaker or stretched as men and women age.

Ms Kinrys says strengthening these muscles, just as one would strengthen any other muscle group, allows men to last longer between the sheets.

When a person stops urinating mid-stream, the Kegel muscles are activated. 

Ms Kinrys explains: ‘Kegel exercises are something you can do everywhere, at every moment in your life. Driving in a car, in your office, sitting at the doctors.

‘They control your pubococcygeus (PC) muscles so you can control ejaculation and prolong ejaculation’

‘You want to work your way up to 50 reps a day, a rep being clenching your PC muscles for three to five seconds, and then releasing.

‘You start off by doing 1 to 20 reps then work up to doing 50 reps.

‘Then you want to increase the time from 5 to 7 seconds. Keep increasing from there.’

‘This will help strengthen your PC muscles so you never have to worry about premature ejaculation again.’

Up to 40 per cent of men suffer from premature ejaculation - defined by the International Society of Sexual Medicine as ejaculation 'within a minute' - at some point in their lives.

In most men, the cause is simply being unable to control the ejaculatory response, explains Wendy Hurn, urology nurse consultant at Bristol Royal Infirmary. 

Italian research published last year found that carrying out Kegel exercises daily for 12 weeks increased the average ejaculation time four-fould.

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