AKSherma answered Friday March 30 2007, 8:24 am: They are not supposed to stop at all. With age- "random" erections do decrease with time, but when a male is asleep and goes through an REM cycle (dream cycle) he will often have an erection.
For guys who are worried about erectile dysfunction- and physicians who want to be able to find out if it is more "psychological" or more " physiological" would use the old trick of asking a male to wrap stamps (when they used to come in rolls) around their genitalia at night, and go to sleep- if the stamps were broken in the morning, that means that they were still able to have erections- and physiological reasons could have been excluded.
NinjaNeer answered Thursday March 29 2007, 11:27 pm: They don't!
They actually have to have occasional erections to keep blood flowing to the penis. It's perfectly healthy and normal, and pretty easy to conceal/deal with. [ NinjaNeer's advice column | Ask NinjaNeer A Question ]
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