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Morning Erection

While you sleep, your body and your brain run wild. The result is – morning erection!

How many erections a night do men have? A man has between three and five erections a night, they last for 25-30 minutes, which means that a 60-year old man has 5 ‘hard’ years of erection behind him. The final station for these nocturnal erections is the morning one. Morning erections are only partly caused by a full bladder (a common myth ), as it supposedly puts pressure on the spine nerves which cause an erection. Morning erections are closely associated with REM sleep...Morning Erection