Wood & Early Morning Hard-Ons

"I don't recall any incidents where a morning erection (E.M.H.O. for Early Morning Hard On) became an issue. We joked about it a lot when coming to the end of midnight shifts. Morning erections aren't just for people waking up, there's something about dawn that seems to bring them on!" male age 54

Not a single man in our surveys said that early morning erections were a concern. Some said everyone had them, it was a normal part of being a guy, and no big deal. Another said he suspected the military was putting something in the food to decrease early morning erections during during basic training, because he doesn't remember getting one after the first week. He does remember getting many of them after basic training. Who knows the impact of exhaustion and fear on the spontaneous erection?

In all of the surveys we collected, not a single guy mentioned that waking with a hard-on was a problem in barracks or group-living situations. They clearly happened, but nobody much cared or were looking around at the fronts of other guys' skivvies.