When you're a boy, erections are both welcomed and feared simultaneously. By the time a boy gets to be a legal adult, this physical phenomenon isn't too mysterious, but for a young, impressionable and hormone-flooded youngster, it seems like the penis can have a life of its own, and that life seems to be determined to humiliate the lad as much as possible.

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Are Testicles Necessary?

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Testicles do not descend outwardly until a boy is entering puberty, so there is a common misconception that the youngster is incapable of getting an erection until then. Although testicles are necessary for the production of sperm, they are not necessary for an erection, which is caused by sudden blood flow to the penis.

Studies have shown that, even while still in the womb, a boy erection is a regular event. Even after birth, baby boys often startle diaper-changers with their erections. This is perfectly normal and doesn't mean the baby is sexually precocious. As any man will grudgingly tell you, you don't have to be sexually aroused in order to get an erection.

Peer Pressure

While growing up, children generally like to be considered as a normal kid. Anything that makes them look strange is usually ridiculed by other kids. Also, because the boy is young and not used to dealing with public embarrassment, being teased can be a very intense time. A boy erection in gym class or in public is a more often occurring event than an individual boy may think and usually happens to any man.

Anything that causes a sudden rush of blood to fill up the vessels in the penis will cause an erection. Physical exercise or even taking a shower can trigger the process. Unlike girls, which are usually shielded from being naked in front of other girls, boys often have to take communal showers and, through the use of the public urinal, have to expose themselves to some extent. This makes a boy more open to ridicule for a physical reason.

What's Normal?

Because of many social taboos on talking about boy erections in public, young boys can often feel as if they are somehow cured or abnormal for getting an erection at an inopportune moment. There does tend to be a big fear that somehow they are sick, diseased or somehow abnormal. Well, it is perfectly normal to think you or your genitalia are abnormal.

There doesn't seem to be a normal amount of times that a boy should get an erection in a usual day or night. What's normal for you is not necessarily going to be normal for anybody else. The only times a boy needs to consult a doctor are when the erections are somehow very painful or if he discovers a lump on his genitals.

Life As a Boy - Erections

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