How to Deal With Erections in Middle School

"We should be talking about erections so that they're not caught off guard and feel like something's wrong with them," she says. "The likelihood is they know that their penis has the ability to get hard and sometimes sticks out." It happens from before birth but happens throughout one's life, he adds. And this is part of teaching respect and empathy for people who aren't going to have erections in same way as you do.