This is true as long as your shirts not tucked in. I haven’t had problems with spontanious errections since highschool anyway. At least not that I can recall.
Just don’t get me started on morning wood.
I’ve noticed the adjustment (often, and it’s very off-putting) but I never knew quite what it was for. I guess I assumed it was a squished scrotum thing.
Huh.
So now I get to decide whether to be grossed out or flattered. I think I’ll take flattered! 
I have never noticed. I am mostly blissfully oblivious, anyway.
Speaking as a guy, it’s mostly a squished scrotum thing and not anything having to do with spontaneous erections. I’ve not had one of the latter since the height of puberty.
I can’t imagine how you guys sit with those things. Or ride bicycles. I don’t like wearing even the thinnest of maxi pads, because it’s so bunchy, and a scrotum’s a lot bulkier than a pad. So I suppose I can cut y’all some slack for the adjustment behavior. But it sure is distracting!
Wait a minute! They go up? Oh, dear. When my son was a baby, my mom told me to point him in the downward direction so his diaper wouldn’t leak. Have I damaged the poor boy forever?
(The trials of being a single mom to a boy…I didn’t know about the “shake” after peeing either, until the poor thing developed a really irritated urethral opening and lots of pee-stained underpants before a guy friend clued me in. Apparently, it’s not instinct.)
You know all those skater kids who wander around with baggy pants? Their mothers pointed Mr. Winky down and now he points straight out, hence the baggy pants.
Just kidding. A penis goes where it wants rather than where it’s told, so I wouldn’t worry.
Only if you’ve got it pointed up when the erection starts. If it’s pointed down, it tries to go straight out, and that can be quite uncomfortable.
I really hate this double standard. When women adjust their bras and/or tops, which some seem to do constantly, I find it quite fetching. You don’t have to find it fetching, but at least allow us to deal with our discomfort.
It’s not something frequent. I try to stay seated until it’s done.
I’ve noticed and I don’t find it offensive or gross. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Granted I haven’t seen any flagrant or questionable adjustments that would elicit a :eek:.
At one place I worked, I actually had a group of female co-workers come to me (presumably, I was just one of the girls) and asked if I could talk about a supervisor who adjusted his package every time he stood up.
I explained that, given the male anatomy and clothing, package adjustment was sometimes necessary, and that it meant no more or less than a woman adjusting her bra strap, or underwire, waist on her pantyhose, or any other of those pieces.
They seemed satisfied with my assurance that it was nothing personal, in fact probably completely unconscious, and another corporate sexual harassment lawsuit was avoided.
I’ll notice if I’m sitting down and the guy is standing up. It’s hard not to when the crotch is nearly eye-level. It doesn’t bother me all that much if the guy’s obviously trying to be discreet. On the other hand, if he does it in a really obvious manner, it’s kind of gross. Sort of like the bra adjustment thing - you don’t want to wear your straps around your elbows, so sometimes you have to pull them up. But you don’t want to be really obvious about fidgeting with your undergarments.
[brief hijack]So what about when someone’s yanking their underwear out of their butt-crack - rude in public or just doing what you’ve gotta do?[/brief hijack]
Where it’s told? Sheesh, mine tells me where to go!
This is one of those things that I was taught NOT to notice. Same as I don’t notice people passing gas in public - better just to ignore it.