# Manual sexual arousal while asleep? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 6, 2013, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000 "2013-04-06T09:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/21 "2013-04-08T15:07:12Z")
It’s always enjoyable to watch your money grow. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/22 "2013-04-08T15:16:36Z")
In these hard economic times I like to refer to it as “stretching the budget”. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/23 "2013-04-08T15:17:13Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > In these hard economic times I like to refer to it as “stretching the budget”. Better make sure you grease some palms first. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/24 "2013-04-08T15:53:58Z")
> [@md2000](#): > > IIRC from one of those Dr Oz shows, he said men go up and down all night (during sleep, that is). It’s nature’s way of tuning things up and being sure they work. I never checked if I was doing this, and the wife never mentioned it. No wonder I keep waking up covered in Post-Its with messages like “check engine.” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/25 "2013-04-08T16:03:15Z")
I think NPR’s Click and Clack, aka the Tappete Brothers, did an episode on this. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/26 "2013-04-08T16:23:23Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I think NPR’s Click and Clack, aka the Tappete Brothers, did an episode on this. “The Ball Joint” episode. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/27 "2013-04-08T16:55:56Z")
I thought it was the “Broken Johnson Rod” episode but I could be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/28 "2013-04-10T18:35:53Z")
> [@Yorikke](#): > > Of all the things in the world that never happened, this never happened most of all. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/29 "2013-04-10T20:17:17Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > So yes, some of us can get aroused while still significantly asleep From what my ex told me after we had gone our separate ways, I was more, um, potent, when asleep. First time we slept together (as in shared a bed) I was too nervous to think about anything more than a cuddle. After I fell asleep, I apparently grabbed her hand and planted it on my groin, to show her for some reason that I was quite erect. And then some time on in our relationship, I was informed that one night I had made love to her while asleep. And apparently, I made love to her face :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/30 "2013-04-10T21:35:56Z")
My wife and I sleep together in the same bed and I wake up pretty much instantly if she touches me, even if it’s just to cuddle or spoon. Her touching my junk, even very very gently, opens my eyes in a hurry, yessiryoubetcha. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/31 "2013-04-10T23:26:32Z")
**JohnClay** hasn’t returned to this thread HEY!! What’s goin on!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/32 "2013-04-10T23:39:35Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > No wonder I keep waking up covered in Post-Its with messages like “check engine.” To this, and other posts about middle of the night head stands: A common simple test of whether impotence is strongly psychological in nature or not, is to put a bunch of stamps in a roll around your schlong in repose when you go to bed at night. If it is broken when you wake, you have had your hard-ons at night, and everything works physically at that end. I’ve never done it, and come to think of it breaking through the perforations seems to require quite a lot of force. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/33 "2013-04-11T07:27:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **JohnClay** hasn’t returned to this thread HEY!! What’s goin on!?!? He’s impotent. Remember? ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/34 "2013-04-11T08:05:57Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > even if I smack the ever loving hell out of my dick the night prior. I think you’re doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/35 "2013-04-11T10:24:11Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > _ah, Crystal, where are you today?)_ Is it possible to get an update on this? 'Cause I’d _really_ like an update on this. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000/36 "2013-04-11T14:05:55Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > …schlong in repose… I forgot to mention this is the title of one of Rodin’s lesser-known works. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-sexual-arousal-while-asleep/655000.md?page=1)