# Worst possible time for an Erection? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076 "2005-09-29T19:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/21 "2005-09-30T00:00:45Z")
IMHO, there is no bad time for an erection. All erections are good erections. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/22 "2005-09-30T02:56:53Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > What are your thoughts on the worst time to get an erection? When on trial for a rape you didn’t commit, as your accuser is relaying her story. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/23 "2005-09-30T03:56:25Z")
Does everyone here know the story of _The Pit and the Pendulum_? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/24 "2005-09-30T06:09:48Z")
Also, when your sister’s hot friend is sitting in your lap on a rollercoaster. Well…technically between your legs…but you get the picture. On the treadmill at the YMCA. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/25 "2005-09-30T06:15:43Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > > [@Mangetout](#): > > > > How about while performing an autopsy? > > On a child. On national television. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/26 "2005-09-30T16:25:19Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > At your grandma’s funeral, while giving the eulogy. Fits quite well with mine, which is as a pallbearer at your grandma’s funeral. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/27 "2005-09-30T16:32:30Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > At a nudist collony. This isn’t a very big deal (no pun intended) unless you’re making a spectacle or nuisance of yourself. I know of what I speak. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/28 "2005-09-30T16:38:45Z")
While demonstrating field-dressing at a hunter safety course. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/29 "2005-09-30T16:41:13Z")
Worst possible time for an erection? Right after the Kobe earthquake … ? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/30 "2005-09-30T17:07:36Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > At any rate, the only tidbit I remember from reading it was the commentary that, when you’ve arrived at your jr. high and high school years, it may very well happen that you’re walking down a crowded hallway, and you might brush against a pretty girl, inadvertently causing you to have an erection. > > What’s the appropriate thing to do, you may ask? > > You smile, and simply tell the girl, “Thank you.” > > Even at twelve, I knew that had to be the creepiest possible thing to do to someone. But I think the book’s attitude was that everyone _else_ your age would also have read the book, and would understand completely. :rolleyes: I agree. Creepiest thing ever. My eyes did this → :eek: It would be especially bad if she _had_ read the book, since she would know why you were thanking her. If she hadn’t, she just might think you’re a little weird. ---
**Author:** ![eyoung123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@eyoung123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyoung123)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/31 "2005-09-30T17:45:51Z")
A while back the following doggerel came to me (as it were) I’ve never been able to flesh it out beyond the few lines… I am inappropriately horny. and unaccountably hard. I know there’s more in there someplace… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/32 "2005-09-30T18:00:18Z")
While doing the 100 M backstroke of an Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076/33 "2005-09-30T22:22:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Doctor’s office when asked to turn and cough. Trust me, we’re used to it. Happens a lot. We even had a female only lecture in med school about how to handle (or not handle) it. Suffice it to say, the tips weren’t much help. There is NO right answer. _yes, IAA(female)D._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-time-for-an-erection/324076.md?page=1)