Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Exploring the Duration: How long can Morning Wood last #youtubeshorts #shorts #morningwood #ed

3 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Anne Truong MD explaining morning erections (nocturnal penile tumescence): why they are noticed upon awakening from REM sleep, how frequently they can occur (3–6 times per night), and their possible durations (about 3 to 35 minutes per episode). The speaker gives simple arithmetic examples to estimate total nightly duration.

Questions this video answers

Three to six per night.

About 3 minutes to 35 minutes per erection.

Chapters

And you notice an erection more in the morning, because that's when you're kind of coming out of rapid eye movement. And as you're coming out of rapid eye movement or REM sleep, that's when you wake up, and that's when you notice you have an erection. In erection, think of morning wood as your body exercising your penis. Because you can have as many as three to six morning erection in one night. And each of them can last from three minutes to even 35 minutes. Yes. So that means that you can have up to. Let's say each erection is like five minutes for simplicity. Times six, that's 30 minutes. Up to like lasting up to 35 minutes. Times six, that's like three hours.