Just Weird
while talking to a friend recently, i learned some very weird information. she told me males can have erections while in the womb. it isn't only in the womb though, men can have erections at any point in their life and have them quite frequently as an infant. now, i have never been pregnant and my brothers are older or just around my age so i never experienced this. i guess what it comes down to is men just don't stand a chance. i should have to cut you some slack because its just out of your control. out of curiosity, when is the youngest age you can remember having an erection?
- miss wolfe
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I don't recall my first erection. Or any early ones. But my son has them often he's 4, now but had them way back in diapers. My bride called all freaked out, he must have been about 2.
It's not our fault!
I don't recall having erections until puberty hit, sometime in the sixth grade. But my little boy gets them, too. He's 3. I had no clue kids could have them. But it's kind of funny. He says "My tee-tee-er hurts" when he gets one. There's really nothing you can say except, "it's OK; it'll stop hurting." I can't think of anything that would hurt him other than just the wierd feeling he might be feeling from the tightness.
I agree with the others up there :) My son had them from about 2 or 3 years of age... As for me, I have NO idea!
Yes, we can get them at any time. Yes, sometimes infants are born with them and they certainly get them any time thereafter. I guess we probably get them before we're born too but I'd never thought about it. Oh, and very, very often men allegedly get erections when, or soon after, they die. So yup, any time.
When a small boy says his tee-tee-er hurts it's a good idea to suggest he reach in and adjust himself. (My mom, at the time socially very conservative but also very up on pediatric medical lore, told me about that.) What hurts is usually that it gets caught on clothing as it gets hard and -- since it's not going to stop -- it gets a bend in it and that's quite painful.
Unverified rumor: the penis gets insufficient oxygen when not erect and so men have erections on and off for up to 60% of the time we're sleeping. (I'm not positive about that. We certainly have erections most of the night but one of the risks of a "stuck" erection is... more oxygen issues. That could be from the risk of blood pooling and clotting though. I'm not sure.)
Anyway, last thing is that a lot of people, ok, women, seem to have the impression that if we get hard we have to ejaculate, or possibly a cold shower or big scare, before it'll go away. Nah. They go away by themselves. Another thing, we get our erections way earlier in the arousal cycle than women so they're more like the equivalent of your first hint of lubrication than "must do something about this now!"
I think it's a shame they're so misunderstood. By women, of course, but also by men. Some times they freak us out as much as they freak out anyone else but they're not that bad. Ok, actually they're kind of nice even if they don't get petted.
figleaf
I'd like to second everything that Figleaf says, and add the following:
My earliest memory of getting erections was after swimming lessons at primary school, aged about 7 or 8. I'd get them regularly after getting out of the water and drying off in the boys' changing rooms.
I'd never heard of "gay" or ":homosexual" at that age, but it seems that many of the other boys had, and the consequent verbal harassment and persecution I got was extremely unpleasant. My erections then were nothing to do with arousal (and I wouldn't have had the faintest idea what "arousal" was back then, anyway).
The misunderstanding that erection=arousal/"need to do something about it" turned out to be rather damaging for me psychologically. It has also led on occasion to men being raped by women, who believe that an erect penis is de facto permission to fuck him.
I started getting erections in 3rd grade and found it was kind of embarassing. Of course, being Catholic, everything remotely sexual was embarassing. I was always afraid it would pop out of my shorts on the playground.
But it was also fascinating. I remember I had some interest in showing it to girls, though I was much too shy and aware that this would somehow be inappropriate. Now, of course, I know it's always appropriate to show your cock to the ladies.
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