The idea that the human penis has a will of its own an often annoying, sometimes sinister bloodhound awareness, tugging at the leash when you least expect it has been floated for as long as men have been getting erections at inappropriate moments.
The current moniker for this phenomenon is a NARB, a No-Apparent-Reason Boner.
That there exists a huge emotional gulf between erections born of horny feelings and these alien boners-from-nowhere is a quirk of the penis most men would recognize.
But a bulging crotch really can blow either hot or cold. In Joannides’ experience, “non-sexual erections seem to occur more often in the morning to younger males, probably because testosterone levels could be higher in the morning.
How would women know there are two very different kinds of erections? he asks. To them, a tent in the pants or a tent in the sheets is just that. It seems counterintuitive that a man could have an erection that has nothing to do with being sexually aroused.
