Hello all! This is not only my first time posting, but this is my first visit to TFP period. But after reading this thread I had to comment.
I found this site searching for other men with the same "problem" as I have. I completely understand what the OP, and a few other gentlemen, have said about getting erections "too easily".
I have wondered for years if there was something "wrong" with me, or at the very least abnormal. I become very easily erect, too easily, under certain circumstances.
When I kiss my wife I get an erection, and I've been in love with this woman for over a decade. Sometimes all I have to do is hug her, and I'm up. If I feel extremely affectionate, but not necessarily horny or sexually excited, I'm still solid as a rock. I have never struggled with getting, or maintaining, an erection. Sometimes I'm not even in the mood and my wife, if she is, will "take advantage" of me knowing full well that very little will tip me over.
Some say this issue dies down after 30. Nope. I'm 31, turning 32 in less than two months. This is actually much "worse" now than when I was a teenager.
I'm a very loving guy, on the whole. I just feel a great deal of affection for the people in my life. Sometimes if I'm feeling very loving I'll pop wood. Not a sexual thought in my mind, but there I am, sporting a hard on. No desire to jack off, or have sex, but it's there. Those "non-sexual erections", which is how I refer to them, typically rise up fast and die down quick, versus sexual erections, which linger for quite awhile. This isn't the best reaction if you pop wood over your little nephew, or male best friend, giving you a hug. Or just because somebody says "I love you" and really means it.
Someone says masturbating helps. That is not the case for me. I can't jack everyday because masturbating for me just begets more masturbating; seldom will once do. I can go 3, 4, or sometimes more times in a day with no issue, sometimes it takes that much just to feel satisfied and have the urge finally die down. Sex is more satisfying, but even then if I wanted to I can almost always get going shortly after finishing.
The first time I ever came with a woman, when I was just barely 18, I was merely eating her out, with no direct contact on my genitalia.
But get this, porn, pics, photos, I'm fine with all those. I don't pop wood because I see a gorgeous girl out in about, or in real life, even if she is sexy or gorgeous. It's firmly rooted, for me, in actual affection, emotion, and sexually it's largely focused around my wife, whom I am still so in love with. I can go to the strip club and get a lap dance and not pop wood, but ask me to kiss my wife passionately without popping a hard one and it's literally
impossible.
I spend my days constantly fluctuating between various states of erection. I don't spend my days steeped in sexual fantasy, or constantly starving for sex, but that seems to be irrelevant. I'm often at half mast more than I am completely flaccid. Even when I am am flaccid there is often an almost ever present "tingle" down there, as if it's ready to get going at any second.
I apologize for the length (every ounce of pun intended). But I'm just glad to see there are others who can relate.