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  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 years ago

    I can not answer why, but I’ve been told I do it too.

    And wake up holding my junk a lot of the time.

    A lot of the times it’s definitely to reposition balls.

    So sometimes not because it’s comfortable per se (and it is), but because doing it avoids possible discomfort, I guess.

    Also, morning wood. What’s that about? What’s the benefit of getting an erection when we wake up? O.o

    • RandomStickman@kbin.run
      16·
      2 years ago

      morning wood

      When we sleep our body releases hormones that encourages blood flow in our body. Better blood flow means boner.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 years ago

        Yeah this is an answer I’ve heard, but it’s sort of generalised.

        I’d like a every detailed medical explanation on why it happens specifically when waking up.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            51·
            2 years ago

            Well yeah, it’s just during the night in general. Hell I’m not even awake in the mornings, lol.

            This puts physical pressure on the sacral nerve, causing the erection. In turn, the erection closes the sphincter to the bladder more tightly because getting urine in the vagina during sex would change the pH and possibly kill sperm you have deposited/will deposit, which makes not tightening that sphincter an evolutionarily disadvantageous trait. This does make it something of a self-reinforcing cycle, though.

            Exactly what I was asking for, thank you.