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Is it true that swimming can cause you to have an erection?
I am in 9th grade and we are doing the swim unit and boys and girls do it together. At first I was thinking of asking to sit out since girls seem to be vicious monsters who enjoy humiliating anyone that is not perfect but now I read that while swimming you can easily get an erection when you are a teenager? Is this true? I cannot risk that happening. If it is true I am definitely sitting out
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Actually it should work the other way around if the water in the pool is cold enough. Cold water constricts the blood vessels. A penis becomes erect due to excess blood flowing into the it. If the blood vessels are constricted due to the cold water it makes it harder to get an erection.
Teenage males become erect for many reason and most of them are an involuntary action caused by the hormones of puberty. I read someplace that a teenage male will have some type of an erection several times each hour. These erections will be anything from a semi-erection to full erection and will happen without any visual or manual stimulation. Meaning it is the hormones doing there thing.
I believe this to be true as I can remember myself and other boys in school walking the hallways with or books in front of us to hide our erections from the girls. The girls of course knew what we were hiding and whisper to each other and giggle to themselves. The boys would then stare at the girls breast to see if there nipples were hare, which can also be also an involuntary reaction or reaction to sexual stimulation.
As an adult, parent and grandparent. My advice to you is not to worry about this as it is something you cannot control. Most likely the school requires you to wear bathing trunks. Bathing trunks unlike spedo's are loose fitting and should hide any erection you may get while you are in the pool. Just remember if you are getting an erection so are the other boys.
If the girls are not wearing padded bra cups on their bathing suits you should see their reaction to you guys being in the pool with them. There nipples will harden and show through the materiel of the bathing suit. Giving you boys reason to stare back at them.
So go ahead and enjoy the swim classes as it is very important not just for recreation that you know how to swim. It may one day save your life or allow you to save the life of someone you love.
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Hi there. First off, I love your description of girls as 'vicious monsters who enjoy humiliating anyone that is not perfect'! Does seem that way a lot the time mate, doesn't it?? Don't be too cynical though. Is it the thought that swimming/water can cause you to become erect? Or that you'll find yourself getting horny because you're surrounded by undressed young ladies? Guys can have erections, that is we 'get hard' due to purely physical responses. Simply a flow of blood to the tissue of our penis makes it enlarge. But mostly we (of course) become aroused due to mental/sensual stimulus, that is one or more of our senses 'push the button' as it were. It's about impossible to predict if or when it might occur. Often anxiety, or fear, ('nerves' if you like) can act as a very strong 'brake' on the male sexual response. The brake is partly physical, partly psychological and it's difficult to precisely divide. I'd suggest you don't sit out, but FRONT IT OUT. Try to get over the idea that if you DO get a hard-on (full, or just semi), and that someone of either sex does notice, that it's a humiliating or embarrassing event. It's perfectly natural. Grit your teeth, man-up and follow the 'Well, I'm a bloke, it's a perfectly natural response...what's your problem??' approach. That should disarm most attacks, if you carry it off with confidence! It's unlikely that a teacher or supervisor will draw attention to it, or ever mention it. Unless they are very bad at their job, or have a lousy attitude. Generally, they'll understand the situation perfectly. And you won't be the first, last or the only one by any means.
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Had to ask my husband who has studied psychology extensively on this. I know I had not heard of it. An erection can be triggered by anything that your subconscious mind has some connecting memory or experience with. So it could really be just about anything. Is swimming something that triggers it in high numbers for all guys? Just in perusing the web, the majority of guys find the cold water makes them contract, not expand. A few said that the girls on the team were what caused most of them to get erections. And lastly only two accounts I found of guys who said cold water had the opposite effect on them. The normal function of the body is to pull in the parts towards the body when subjected to cold, just as bodies of those lost in the snow will
take blood from the extremities and redirect to more critical parts to be kept warm like all internal organs, so extremities like toes and fingers can suffer frostbite. So there is very little chance of you getting an erection from being in the water of a cool swimming pool.
If you fear erections so greatly then your mind will begin to create all sorts of situations in which all your senses will trigger an erection. it can go to extremes if you don't find ways to deal with your mind and its fears of imagined situations. An example might be hearing a certain melody makes you get one, hearing a girls laugh, smelling cookies baking in the oven, smelling a girls perfume, wearing silky boxers, jogging, riding a bike, etc....
Its a known fact by all humans, both male and female that teen boys can easily get 4 erections or more per day....thats just the way it is so likely that guys and gals will sometimes notice that some guy is having an erection. Even in regular pants, there are hints that there is an erection, kinda hard to hide unless you decide to switch to wearing Kilts as the Scotsmen do.
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