Haha get this guys - Embarrassing Bodies (the tv show) reckons that on average men get 11 erections per day! I was watching an old episode of it on cable and they came out with this 'fact'/factoid in a segment about dick problems. I was like...whut?! Since when? Which men? Normally that show makes me feel better about myself (unintentially) by way of negative comparison, but after hearing that, it had me reassessing my whole life (not really lol).

I don't ever recall having 11 natural and spontaneous erections per day, even as a horny hormone pumped teenager. Certainly it was not the norm. Granted since having Peyronies Disease and being on ED medication daily, ironically I have more erections than before, but I would not consider them to be strictly natural or spontaneous erections - it's the Cialis (and maybe other supplements) and I just know my dick would not be so reactive without that.

I looked up this claim about 11 erections and it seems to be repeated in a fair few science-y sounding articles but still, I'm dubious. Surely they are counting NTE's, but how many is that going to be - 2,3,4? They're saying that men have all those other erections during waking hours? I don't think.


Anyway, whats normal for you guys? Or rather, what used to be normal?

Edit: Actually, some/most of the articles are saying that men get on average 11 erections per day PLUS many/several more at night, drawing the distinction between NTE's and daytime erections, which is even more wild.

I'm sure you will find a very large range for erections throughout the daytime with the men here. Remember that this is not counting nighttime sleeping erections. Also are you looking at erections that are just random or generated from a visual stimuli or erotic thought? For me I usually have normal waking morning erections but very few throughout the daytime.

They say "in a day", which is literally taken as a 24 hour period. I'm assuming >50% of these erections occur while sleeping.

The articles that quote this figure of 11 mostly do differentiate between NTE's and the remaining 11 that supposedly occur throughout the day.

"The average man has 11 erections each day, as well as many more when they are asleep. On average, a healthy man has three to five erections during a full night's sleep"

The Embarrassing Bodies segment just stated 11 erections per day, without any elaboration.

The average number of NTE's - and there seems to be fairly strong consensus agreement/reliable figures on this - is about 2-6, so it can't be that most of those 11 occur at night, with the higher end of that average being 6. And even if that total of 11 did include 2-6 at night, that would still leave 5-9 to just appear during the day, while awake...which still seems like a lot to me.

Point is, that figure and the belief that goes with it is probably bogus anyway, and has just been bandied about from one site to the next and then repeated on message boards (which I have done also, but to challenge it, not to propogate it). I just found whole thing rather curious and quizzical too lol.

I'm happy to be getting daily morning wood and night time erections very consistently. There was a point in my life this did not occur.