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Why do i sometimes get "random" erections?

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Dr. Gutti Rao answered

Specializes in Hospital-based practice

Normal: Erections randomly can occur in sleep without stimulation. This is normal.

Dr Kimm agreed

Answered 4/11/2019

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Random Erections: In young people it can happen at any time without any stimulus due to surging hormones and youg boys and men have no control over it, at what age it stops varies.But early morning erections and erections during sleep can happen at any age.

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Answered 4/11/2019

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I am a 31 year old male and still get constant and random erections (unwanted) like i did when i was a teenager. Coupcould this indicate a problem?

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I get random erections sometimes and I can masturbate fine, but when it comes to sex Ive struggled to get fully erect, I did get semi erect once. Why?

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