Why do guys wake up with an erection?

[Anonymous]

And will it ease by itself, or must they bring themselves to orgasm every morning?

[thegroupof7]

Well its not from sexual arousal, although a lot of guys use it as an excuse to masturbate. Its kinda like how your nipples get hard when you get REALLY cold, there's usually nothing sexual, just your body doing what it needs to do. But its usually a combination of things. The average guy has eight hard, full-on erections every night. Its just our bodies keeping everything in check. -especially when he's in adolescence with insanely raging hormones-.Aside from that it could be caused by the way an erection puts pressure on the tube going from your bladder, out your body. (urethra) If a guys bladder is full and he's in a deep state of sleep its kinda like a fail safe to make sure he doesn't wet the bed.

[Anonymous]

We get erections while we sleep so that the penis gets plenty of blood and it keeps everything working. Older guys rarely get erections during the day unless they get some direct sexual stimulation or are watching p*rn so it is necessary for the body to have erections at night. If a guy ignores the erection when he wakes up it goes away in a minute or two.

[cjblondi08]

lol

[Voltaire]

It's due to increased levels of testosterone which occur right before your sleep cycle ends. And it goes away just like any other boner.

[Brando]

I thought it was due to the relaxation of your body once you enter REM sleep, allowing blood to flow more easily and into the penis?

[Voltaire]

Yeah, but the testosterone makes it stay there. I'm pretty sure that's what we learned in frosh health. It's been a while.

[greenout420]

brando is right it come from tthe relaxation of a very deep sleep and all your blood is on the move like there's no tomorrow

[GIntrovert]

I usual get one straight after I wake up... hormones are running pretty high in the mornings..

[Peedesperation]

We don't know why we get them, they can ease by themself but most blokes would prefer to masturbate to get rid of it

[greenout420]

increased blood flow from the relaxation of the deepest level of sleep and it just goes away just like a regular boner lol

[Anonymous]

Cause your body is in a fully relaxed state. It can go away pretty easily but I learned to never waste a boner

[Anonymous]

lol nice question. got a laugh from it

[Anonymous]

Hahaha, never heard of morning wood? Yeah, we wake up with boners all the time. It usually just goes away by itself, but if I don't have anywhere to be that day I usually just take care of it right then and there, lol.

[Anonymous]

nice q! never knew the answer :)