Better Sex Video Series 8: You Can Last Longer Review

Reviewed by astroknight  on  5/5/2005

The Little Details

Running Time: 37 min.

Director: Francesco Marini

Cast: Hosted by Derek C. Polonsky, MD and Marian E Dunn, PhD with a few uncredited couples giving demonstrations

The Short Story

Initial Expectations: I’ve had mixed luck from Sinclair. I’m not sure what to expect here.

Initial Reaction: It has some good information, but is also extremely clinical.

Who Should Watch It : Anybody wanting better ejaculatory control

Who Should Avoid It: Anybody wanting education with a stroke factor

The Technical Stuff

Audio /Video Quality: The technical aspects are pretty impressive for a feature that’s well over ten years old. The audio is clear, nicely balanced, and free of background noises. The video shows a little age, but has very little grain and is nicely lit. This is a surprisingly good looking and sounding release!

Music: There’s a little cheesy music in the background.

Menus: The menus are pretty basic. The main menu lays out your choices on the standard Sinclair logo while the chapter menu lets you choose a section based on the subject of the chapter.

The Feature

Currently, we live in a culture that’s fairly negative sexually. Yes, it’s getting better in many ways, but it’s still hard to talk about sex in most places. Due to this attitude, the Sinclair Institute has put out several instructional movies. They’re developed as being a video textbook, and Sinclair advocates watching them with your partner so you can stop it and talk about different subjects as you go. Here, the subject is premature ejaculation and ejaculatory control.

After a great talk on how not lasting as long as you might like has made some men better lovers, the doctors move on to a talk on male ejaculation in general. There are two main methods for ejaculatory control. The first is the stop / start technique is simply the technique where you just stop whatever you’re doing and restart it again when the feeling’s passed. There’s also the squeeze technique, where you squeeze the penis to reduce excitement and allow yourself to relax and delay ejaculation. There are also four steps to the program. It starts with masturbation and is followed by cowgirl intercourse, spooning, and your preferred positions. Each step has its own exercises, methods, and reasons as you build control. There’s even a section at the end that covers some common questions. It’s all very clinical, but I guess in a situation like this that’s probably a good thing.

You Can Last Longer is a decently done educational video. It covers a subject I think holds interest for many men, yet aims it at a much smaller area. To their credit, the subject and lessons taught here can applied to men who don’t suffer from premature ejaculation as well as those who do. The doctors narrate it very clinically, while a couple or two demonstrates some of what they talk about. It’s never complex, and flows decently. The biggest problem here is that the entire DVD is extremely dry, and I definitely found it very easy to be distracted from the feature. You Can Last Longer has some worthwhile information, but the presentation dries it out horribly.

The Extra Stuff

In addition to sexual health information, there’s a short featurette and a bonus film. The short featurette is called No Greater Love 2 and is a sexy way to get the condom message across.

The bonus featurette Multiple Orgasms: The Joy of Repeated Pleasure lasts almost a half hour and is hosted by Linda Banner, MS and Marty Klein, PhD, Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN. FAAN, and Bernie Zilbergeld, PhD. Multiple orgasms are covered for both men and female. with a nice emphasis on trying it through masturbation before trying it with a partner. There’s also tips on pleasing a partner with multiple orgasms for both men and women, as well as multiple orgasms and intercourse. It’s a very simple little featurette. It’s fairly dry and the soft music makes the featurette way too relaxing. There are some nice tips here that still make it a good featurette to check out.

The Down -n- Dirty Sex Stuff

Themes: Instructional, straight, and masturbation

Raincoat Factor: Low

Condom Usage: 100%

The Bottom Line:

Currently, many of the Sinclair Institute’s DVDs can be found online for between about $13 and $28 with a few stores offering them at the lower end. Rent this one first. There’s some decent information, but I’m not sure if it’s worth keeping around for that price. The technical aspects are very well done, and there’s some great effort put into the extras as well. This is a very nicely put together DVD.

Note to Sinclair: It wouldn’t hurt to liven things up a bit in some of your features. Thank you for putting the extra effort into the extras. This is a very nicely put together DVD.

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