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Why do men get morning wood?

healthbolt.net — When a guy is relaxed, erections are most likely. Since you ’re often most relaxed upon rising (from sleep), morning wood makes sense.

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  • mseneschal, on 10/10/2007, -8/+158This is bound to make the front page for two reasons:
    1.) It was submitted by BabyMan.
    B.) It’s about morning wood.
    • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39C) It's about something we all learned in 6th grade.
    • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -15/+7For those who don't know who MrBabyMan is:
      http://digg.com/videos_people/Digg_Video_From_Last_Night_s_Party_A_Day_in_the_Life_of_a_Digger
    • TheBritishGuy1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+91Hmm. From 1 to B, eh?
      • titlesaysitall, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11E. ????
        F. Profit!
        • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+98. Repeat
          • BooostedAWD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8XII. If erections last for more than four hours, please consult a doctor immediately.
          • mseneschal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2XII.... hahaha
        • DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Oh so morning wood is normal eh? I thought I was abnormal for a while...
      • MusicalGenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Wow, what's really pathetic is that I didn't even notice until reading your comment.
        • ShugNinx21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Are we supposed to check who the submitter is before liking and digging an article?
      • xero9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Kind of reminds me of my high school math teacher.. "Okay, lets move on to question number 'B'". Good thing she wanted an English teacher
    • davidsmero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33I just tuck my boner under my waist band. It hides it and it feels great!
    • brad3378, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I should not have commented
    • Tenetri, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What actually causes morning wood is, its impossible to pee while you have an erection (unless you reallly force it), so when your bladder is full, your brain sends signals to give you a "morning wood" so you don't piss all over your bed
    • SonicAD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41. Cut a hole in a box.
  • jczubach, on 10/10/2007, -11/+2Hardee Har Har!!!!
  • bakkouz, on 10/10/2007, -9/+35Correction, This is bound to make the front page for One reason:
    It was submitted by BabyMan.
    • nitrousconsumed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8is that good or bad?
    • Encablossa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Ask me if I care...?
    • cavar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's why submissions should be anonymous. Digg used to be more interesting. Most of the stuff dugg now is probably dugg for personal reasons.
  • SantaClauz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+150'Why do men get morning wood?"

    -To let their girlfriends know that their work still isn't done.
    • quomen, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2I wish I got a in-the-bed-with-a-girl wood. Why is it so hard?!
      • filefly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14No, why isn't it?
      • quomen, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2I didn't notice the word play. guess I have to do an after-14-minutes EDIT and add a /unintentionalpun tag.
    • yahoofrom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the real reason is that men are descended from erectus.
  • mrgreenjeans, on 10/10/2007, -13/+174My girlfriend once asked my why I get morning wood. I told her I was thinking about her mom.
    She was piiisssed!
    • canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -25/+6my girlfriend once asked me why i get morning wood. i told her semen is more effective than mouthwash.
    • macweirdo42, on 10/10/2007, -1/+87Such an annoying question... Only appropriate response: "Why is it that you bleed for five days every month but you never die?"
  • Bara, on 10/10/2007, -5/+201My girlfriend once asked me why I get morning wood. I then woke up and realized I didn't have one (the girlfriend, I still had the morning wood)
  • busterbros, on 10/10/2007, -4/+118The erection fairy, duh!
  • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -16/+5http://digg.com/design/Worst_book_cover_ever_PIC
    (leads to http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2498/comictot14vu7.gif )
    • lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's not the kind of morning wood they were talking about.
  • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -13/+4I get morning wood because I spend all night dreaming that i'm the meat in a Maria Sharapova and Megan Fox sandwich.
  • Dysarthria, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4Because they aren't getting evening tail.
  • m8ymerc1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+141Don't let my wife read this. She still thinks she turns me on.
    • macweirdo42, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Marriage - the ultimate erection-killer.
      • ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's also a cause of divorce in 100% cases.
  • realclark, on 10/10/2007, -3/+72cuz we have to pee
    • maanwi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0There is no medical correlation. Do you get an erection at any other time when you have to urinate?
  • SmackMyMac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Any one who camps knows it's better to pitch your tent while it's light outside ;-)
  • muffins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16You answered the question in the description. No point on clicking the article really.
    • ShugNinx21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13You mean people actually read the articles?
  • greenriver572, on 10/10/2007, -0/+60because having an erection makes it more difficult for you to piss yourself. true story
    • ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Ya have to sit down and lean forward.. and hope you dont hit the rim and spray your pants...
  • deepvirus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_penile_tumescence
    • ropers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's also an interesting phenomenon, but it's NOT the same as morning wood.
  • deepvirus, on 10/10/2007, -16/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_penile_tumescence
  • Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+85My mom sai it was because I hadn't said the pledge of allegiance and It was communists using their psychic powers to slowly turn me into a statue...*****' '60s
  • Cinaga, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I always heard those nocturnal erections were related to your REM sleep cycles and that toward the end of an 8 hour sleep your cycles are happening more often. This story doesn't really go along with everything I have ever read.
    • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Did you even click the link?... I quote:

      "Certain stages of the sleep cycle also influence the body’s involuntary behavior (ding ding ding)."
      Note the "ding ding ding", this indicates notable correctness....
  • ruddy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6"drop your ***** and grab your socks" - full metal jacket
  • buenit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I get morning wood from watching boner jams '03 right before bed.
    • ellenpageishot, on 06/16/2008, -0/+0Have you been watching The 40 year old virgin?
  • Neticule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Annoying as hell when you have to piss in the morning! Sometimes it just doesnt seem to want to go away :(
    • selrahc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I would think pissing all over the bed would be even more annoying though:)
      • macweirdo42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9What the hell? Women seem to be able to not piss the bed even without the aid of a massive hard-on.
  • JrGhoull, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1i was told it was in essence due to gravity. basically gravity would be forcing the blood in your penis down, but then the blood would push back in order to keep circulation. this would give u a little bit of an erection. the extention would cause the blood to have to push even harder in order to "cover the distance" if you will. this keeps going until u have a full erection. hahah this is at least how it was explained to me...dont know how truthful it is.
    • Smight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12You were told a lie.
    • beaumont911, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2But wouldn't the penis be exposed to gravity all day, so what makes sleeping any different?
  • HunkieChan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+35i usually get the erection before getting off bus or any vehicle.. stupid penis
    • cliffzdude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Really, did you *have* to share that?
      • Tiak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have no clue why that would be funny to anyone, but I want to digg that comment up anyway.. Weird...
    • ShugNinx21, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18I get them when I see hot chicks, during movies, when the wind blows, during any of the 234762947623 times per day that I think of sex... etc etc etc...
      • t0ny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I used to get them in high school right before the bell would ring to let us out of flash.
    • specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I haven't lol'ed this much for a while. Makes me rember this one time when I was in 7th grade, I was thinking in *something* then the teacher asked me to stand up and present some *****....

      ohh, the days.
    • Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10It's a dirty trick by nature. You get them whenever you know you're about to stand up, or any time that it's really obvious.
  • sprooj, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0From what I have always heard and read it was that during REM sleep cycle you most of the time are having sex dreamsso you wake up with a boner because REM sleep is the final "session" before waking up.
  • sleeknerve, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2so other people know how big your dick is without you having to show them, however, this can backfire if you have a small penis
  • CaptShmo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13because men are horny all the time, this doesn't require an article or science...
  • jhendrix86, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5don't ask me which journal it was in, but awhile ago i read the REAL reason why in a medical journal.

    the MAIN reason is to keep us from pissing ourselves. It's the body's way of preventing it...it's hard to piss when you have an erection if you haven't realized yet...
    • ShugNinx21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I can pee with an erection..... It's aiming that becomes a problem...
      • Puppetfunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I Aim better with an erection. It's after sex explosion in which your piss goes a different direction which is the problem.
    • jeff303, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I find that very hard to believe - that we would have somehow evolved this mechanism (clearly a non-survival trait). So I'll ask anyway; what journal was it?
    • Utils, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Peeing with an erection is difficult but not impossible. Also I don't recommend people do it often, or EVER. Something about it isn't right.

      Also it sounds like this journal was *****. Somebody talking out their ASS.
  • CaptainM4d, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Morning wood can be so annoying. Geez..morning wood, why do you have to be such a..DICK
  • subxero37, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Wasn't this the subject of a Beavis and Butt-head episode?

    "For example, this morning - would there be anything that you consider a mystery?"
    "Huh huh, he said 'morning wood.'"
    • Mardala, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Heh ... that is the first thing I thought of when I read the title ... but you beat me to the post (no pun intended) =D
  • infiniti029, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This video defines "mourning w00d": http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hIUBZ2LS7E
  • LoveWidescreen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why does the song "Norwegian Wood" *always* come to mind when "morning wood" is mentioned?

    "I once met a girl inside my dream, so it would seem.
    I knew that she should know it was good - my morning wood."

    And then I wake up and realize that I really just have to go to the bathroom :(
  • roland, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Because i'm horny, bitch!
    • douggmc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7... In your best Cartman voice.

      "Now make me some pie!"
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because they can.
  • neonenergy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I always thought it was because you hold in the pee all night and it... helps hold it .. back...
    בּ_בּ
  • Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I've had an erection for 7 hours.

    Halp!
  • mishaco, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4why ? because i would like to get a blowjob the moment i wake up !
    is it really so difficult to figure out ?!!
    • kodek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I don't think your sister reads digg.
      • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Fortunately she lives with him, so he can tell her himself.
  • zephypyre, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Sorry to get all literal, but I always figured it was caused by an increase in pressure in the bladder removing return blood flow from the penis. Trapped blood in the penis causes the erection, waking you up when you roll over on it. Thanks to morning wood (heavy drinking nights notwithstand) I haven't wet the sheets in years.

    Oh. . .and as far as pop punkette electronica bands go, you could do worse than Morning Wood.
    • dionhewson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I rate the bladder theory over the 'relaxed' theory. I'm relaxed all the time...no wood. But 9/10 mornings I am busting for a piss when I wake up, and I'm sporting wood...it's the bladder, it always has been....
    • ropers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I qualified as a (male) nurse and we also were taught that the main reason is that a full bladder partially obstructs the return flow of the blood circulating through the penis. That said, the other reasons given in the article may well be equally valid factors.
  • GreySpec, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would have expected Dr. Drew to have answered this much better. The truth about this is correlated with the REM sleep cycle which is in rhythmic correlation with the circadian rhythm of the earth. This REM cycle climaxes every 90 minutes. It's a well known fact among the medical community that morning wood is a direct result of waking up during a REM cycle. Think about it, you don't ALWAYS wake up with morning wood. If it was a result of having to pee, or being relaxed then you would have it every day...
    • shatters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That is correct. Our hormone and testosterone levels fluctuate throughout the night as our body "heals" itself.

      Marking this article as inaccurate.
    • DelMonte, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1GreySpec, you're right and I dugg you up.

      It's sad to see that your comment has only +2 diggs while many other stupid "It's to prevent you from peeing" comments have 10+ diggs.
  • SexyPopMachine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I hate morning wood.

    When you try to take a leak (I always go after getting up), I never can release myself. lol
    • fangorious, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Why are you holding yourself when I try to take a leak?
      • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He has a unique take on it, called Houdini Wood, in which he has to escape from a strait jacket while being suspended over a street. So he can take a piss.
  • ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well, I don't know, but I've been told, never slow down, never grow old, oh my my oh hell yes, better put on that party dress.
  • RMoore08, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Because I dream of things.... good things...
  • chesscat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If I have morning wood and need to piss, I just think of Tammy Faye Baker and her last interview on Larry King. That usually solves the problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLM_FkKKzrs
  • Lodarage, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Morning wood is the self test of the penis. Let the girlfriend/wife handle it! ;)
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5CPU: Pen15(R) @ 6.12inches
      Press PENIS to enter setup

      23485285 SPERM...OK

      BALL 1
      S.M.A.R.T Enabled and status OK
      BALL 2
      S.M.A.R.T Enabled and status OK

      *beep*
      • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0***** hell, it didn't save the formatting...it's all on one line. It wasn't supposed to be. Use your imagination, I guess...
  • loper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1dugg for leading to a link stating "This technique was performed on freshly isolated rat clitorises as described previously"
  • bobbknight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No mention of the caveman days when you got some before setting out for the days hunt where you die, but your seed lives on.
    Or the fact that hormonal levels are the highest in the morning.
    Or it's just nice to wake up with a boner, natures way of letting you know your still alive.
  • specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3"Because you touch yourself at night."
  • WaltDismal, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I don't see what the problem is, old chaps. I just have the maid take care of the morning wood. It's what she's there for, you know. Tea, toasted muffin, blowjob. If she doesn't like it, there're plenty more in the village she came from. No skin off my nose. Well, I have to be off. Father's taking us hunting poachers this morning. Jolly good fun. Better than shooting clay pigeons.
  • smokewater, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I used to get morning wood, now i tape it down because my mom got mad about the holes in the ceiling.
  • tavisjohn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4All you need to know about Morning Wood:
    http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=7a5e9c237a118db610180aa200127001
    Thank you Robot Chicken!
    • macweirdo42, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Dugg for Robot Chicken... Dugg for Bruce Campbell... *****... *HEAD ASPLODE*
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