Post Date December, 02 2023
Many people think that a man's penis can only be erected when stimulated. In fact, otherwise, healthy men will also have natural erections at night and in the morning, and erections at night make many men uncomfortable and absolutely "painful". Is this a symptom? Do you need treatment? Let's take a look at the authoritative replies given by experts.
Why do you have an erection at night
When many men are worried about "no" penis erection at night or in the morning, they feel painful about their normal physiological reaction. Although they are over half a century old and in good health, there is no problem that they often have erections at night. And the more full the erection is, the more obvious the so-called "pain" is, which is understandable. Since all kinds of examinations have eliminated organic problems (including blood diseases, endocrine problems, etc.), it seems that it can only be a conceptual and psychological problem. As for why men think this way, it is difficult to say clearly on the phone. They can have an interview if they have the opportunity to further explore the root cause of his problem.
Reaction of sexual ability
Erections are a kind of reflex, which can be divided into three ways: psychological erections are the reflection of the excitement of the brain's sexual activity center and are easily disturbed by various psychological factors; Reflective erection is the result of direct stimulation of the penis; Spontaneous erection at night can reflect the sexual reaction ability of men. It appears after men fall asleep.
Doctor: Sexologist Ma Xiaonian
Erections are normal at night
Using strain gauge measurement, it can be observed that a healthy man will have 4-6 nighttime erectile reactions every night, each lasting about 30 minutes, and the average total erectile time is 185 minutes. With the deepening of night and sleep, the process of erection is gradually prolonged, the degree of erection is also continuously strengthened, and the interval between two erections is continuously reduced. The most obvious increase in penis volume is at the time when the heart rate is the slowest around 5 a.m. After puberty, the duration, frequency and intensity of nighttime erection decreased steadily, but the change was not obvious until the age of 50.
Age and erection
After the age of 50, the duration and intensity of erection decreased; After the age of 60, the changes of various parameters become more prominent, and their response patterns are more similar to those of boys before puberty; After the age of 70, the periodicity of nighttime erection still remains, but the decrease in intensity and duration is more obvious. The total swelling time is about 90 minutes, and the average number of erections is 2.6.
Therefore, when judging the test results, we should pay attention to the age characteristics. Generally speaking, the variation of nighttime erection in the same age group is small, and the variation of nighttime erection in the same subject is also small. Some people found that when a man has a dream with high anxiety content, the erection at night will disappear or the swelling will rapidly subside. Night erection is often affected by sleep quality, lack of sleep, fatigue, dream content, and other negative and positive factors.
Dreams affect erection at night
People who sleep well and those who love dreaming have good erectile response at night, which can be judged from the increase in the number of erections and the circumference. Relatively speaking, erection at night is not easily affected by neurosis, negative dreams or sexual satisfaction before sleep. The erection at night is also affected by physical factors. The erection reaction of short and fat men at night is stronger than that of thin and tall men; Athletes should beat fat men. The nocturnal erectile pattern is also affected by the type of vegetative nerve. For example, among men of the same age, men with a high initial heart rate have a weaker nocturnal erectile intensity during 8-hour sleep than men with a slow heart rate.
Since the occurrence of nighttime erections does not depend on the stimulation of genitals or the pressure of fullness of urine in the bladder, nighttime erections cannot be regarded as reflex erections. Some doctors often ask patients, "Can you have an erection when you hold urine in the morning?" This is actually not true. Morning erection is actually the last erection reaction at night. It is not the result of holding urine, because men never have an erection when they hold urine in the daytime. In any case, when a man has enough rigidity of the night erection reaction, it can be confirmed that he has the physiological erection ability.
