Morning erection frequency

Hey guys,

How often do you guys get morning erections and also spontaneous erections?

I’m a little concerned that the frequency of mine seem to be on the wane :(

Also, what causes a morning erection?

Thanks guys
WI

Do a search of the word parasympathetic and you will come up with some stuff. Also, read in the Male Sexual Health Forum the article that T. has pasted near the top, “Male Sexual Circuitry.”

It’s about the fairly constant interplay between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous sytems, one dampening erectile response and the other encouraging it.

The average healthy male has 4 - 5 nocturnal erections, each lasting about a half hour. Most of us sleep through them, unaware that they have occurred. You may be waking now more slowly from REM sleep (the cycle during which they happen) and so yours have waned by the time you wake. Or, you are having fewer of them than you used to.