My penis is always erect when I sleep at night

Many male friends attach great importance to male sexual function. When it comes to sex, the level of male sexual function has a great impact on our male friends. Many male friends often have genital erections at night, but many people don’t know whether it is good or bad for them to have genital erections at night. So what should we do if male genitals often have erections at night? Why is the male genitals always hard when sleeping?

Nighttime erections aren't all about sexual excitement

Many teenagers find that their penis is erect whenever they wake up at night, so they think their penis is erect all night long and blame themselves for being "useless" or "thinking wrongly". They worry that this will prematurely deplete their sexual function and affect their future married life.

What is the reason for the nighttime erection?

Sex medicine researchers have done a lot of tests and found that every normal man can have an erection during the whole sleep process. The frequency of erection varies according to physical fitness and age. A healthy young man has an erection every 1 to 1.5 hours, and each time lasts about 20 minutes, that is, 6 to 7 times a night; the middle-aged and elderly have an erection 3 to 4 times a night; and a healthy man of 65 years old still has an erection 2 to 3 times a night. This erection is a physiological phenomenon, and the person is often unaware of it. Even if the defendant is interrogated to see if he has sex in his dreams, it is often unclear.

This is because the human brain always has to inhibit the occurrence of type reactions during the day, otherwise the boy will always encounter "embarrassing situations"; but after falling asleep, the inhibitory effect of the human brain disappears, and the male penis will spontaneously have an erection reaction. Studies have found that the duration, frequency, and intensity of erections at night will decrease with age, and the strongest is from puberty to around 20 years old; and the male penis is not erect all night, but it is relaxed and tense, so there is no need to worry.

What to do

Generally speaking, men have three to five erections every night, and each erection lasts an average of 15 minutes, but there are also cases where it lasts up to an hour. As long as the structure and function of the nerves, blood vessels and cavernous bodies are normal, there will be an erection.

Our internal organs are controlled by the central nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system, and the reproductive organs are no exception. Genital erection is controlled by the sacral sympathetic nervous system. When the sympathetic nervous system is excited, the penis will become hard. Therefore, if the penis becomes erect after falling asleep at night, it is not a psychological disorder and does not require treatment.