Suppress an Erection
Erections are a perfectly healthy and normal part of life. But if you've pitched a tent but you're not camping, that's an embarrassing situation. Learn how to prevent embarrassment by dressing correctly, covering up the evidence, and getting your erections to go away quickly.
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Preventing Embarrassment
- Wear pants and underwear that fit properly. If you wear clothes that fit your body properly, erections don't need to be super-embarrassing. You can keep erections from being obvious, and even keep them from occurring and sticking around, if you wear the right pants and underwear. Wear well-fitting boxer briefs and pants that fit your frame.
- Very tight underwear briefs or tight pants can cause your erection to bulge more obviously, and make it more difficult to go away. It's also more difficult to move it around once it happens.
- Very loose boxers and athletic shorts can likewise make it very difficult to cover erections when they occur, because they're too loose.
- Wear dark pants. Dark pants show contrast less than lighter colored pants. So, if you get an erection and you're wearing white jeans, it'll be a lot more obvious than if you're wearing dark-colored pants. If you're worried about getting erections you won't be able to control, wear dark blue, black, or other dark colors in your bottom half.
- Wear longer shirts. If you've got a shirt that sags a little lower than your waist band, it'll be easier to cover things up in an emergency. Oversized t-shirts, jackets, or jerseys can come in handy when you're struggling with your hormones.
- Keep something in your backpack or your locker that you can use in an emergency. If you've got a throwback Jordan jersey in there, you can always throw it on over your t-shirt in an emergency.
- Avoid sexual stimuli. It's tough to do, but the more you can keep your mind out of the gutter, the less likely an unwanted erection will be. If you don't want an embarrassing bulge, avoid thinking about sex or looking at sexual imagery.
- Again, it's difficult to avoid sexual stimulation sometimes, and erections don't always happen when you're stimulated by anything. Sometimes, your body just doesn't cooperate because your hormones are running wild. That's totally normal.
- Relax. Getting erections is perfectly normal, though it can be embarrassing when you're in public or in a delicate situation. If you feel one coming on, try to keep your mind off it and not get too excited. The most important thing to keep in mind while you're struggling is that there's nothing wrong with you and it's best to stay calm.
Covering Up the Evidence
- Sit down. If you're standing up and get an erection, it can be pretty obvious. If you want to cover it up, try sitting down and crossing your legs if necessary. This can help open up some room in your pants, if they're too tight, and make your situation less obvious. Shifting your knees up usually lets some space into your pants.
- If you're in public, try to sit down anywhere, but a chair with arms would be ideal. Any kind of reclining chair that you can sink back into would be perfect. But anything will do in a pinch.
- If you can, just head to a bathroom or your bedroom to do some rearranging. Both are as good a hiding spot as there could be.
- Shift it around. Depending on your body, it can be more or less comfortable to shift the evidence somewhere it will be less visible. If you can, try to move things around a bit with your hand, or by shifting your hips a little as quietly as possible.
- Shift it to point up, or point down, along the line of your zipper. The zipper in your pants creates a natural kind of bulge anyway, so it'll be less obvious if you can tuck it in that direction.
- If your erection is oriented sideways, that's often the most obvious and uncomfortable. Try to shift it up or down if you can.
- Use a book or your backpack to cover your lap. If your erection is still visible and you need to cover it up to save some embarrassment, just put something in front of your lap, or on top of your lap.
- If you are in school, or a similar place and you get an erection, look at the clock. How much time do you have until you need to move?
- If you're at the swimming pool, use your towel. Lay on a beach chair or in the sand until it goes away.
- Wait it out. try to get your mind off what's going on down under and think about something else while you wait it out. Even tenacious ones will go away after a couple of minutes, usually, without having to do anything about it.
- If you can't get it to go away by waiting, go to the next section to learn some more techniques.
Making Erections Go Away
- Exercise. If you want your erection to go away, start doing something physical. Go outside and get some exercise for a while, and that erection will go away pretty quickly, usually more quickly than waiting. Make your muscles burn and it'll go away, because your body will need that blood elsewhere.
- Drop down and do ten pushups quickly, then try to do 30-40 sit-ups. This will usually do the trick. Go jogging, if you prefer.
- Sometimes, just the act of focusing your attention on some sport or game can also do the trick. Keep exercising to get your body working and get rid of some of that frustration.
- Swimsuit erections can be some of the most embarrassing. If one happens in the water, start doing some serious lap-swimming.
- Eat something. Eating a meal will help your body focusing its attention elsewhere. Eating causes blood to flow to your digestive system, helping you to process your food and convert it into energy. Try eating some raw seeds, oatmeal, or citrus fruit to improve your blood flow and get your body busy in other ways.
- Take a warm shower or bath. While a "cold shower" is the common advice for a horned-up teenager, cold temperatures can actually promote sperm production, while hot temperatures can actually make you less fertile for the time being. While that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the erection you've got, it can help in the long term. A bath of any sort is a good idea.
- Think about something gross or complicated. The old joke goes that a guy's only got enough blood in his body to run either his brain or his penis, but not both. There's some truth to it. If you can't do something active or out-wait your erection, try to out-wit it by doing any of the following things:
- Think about the true nature of being. Decide what happens when you die.
- Complete this problem in your head: (1567 x 34)(143 - 56)
- Picture old people in nursing homes eating lunch.
- Try to write a rhyming Petrarchan sonnet.
- Imagine eating raw jellyfish.
- Read Aristotle.
- Do a sudoku or a crossword puzzle.
- Remember the time you stepped in dog poop with bare feet.
- Pinch your leg gently. If you absolutely can't do anything else to get rid of your erection, you can try causing yourself an extremely gentle but noticeable amount of physical pain. Pinch your thigh firmly to cause a distracting sensation and get your attention to focus elsewhere. Only do it for a second or two, and then stop if it doesn't work, and try another method.
- Never, under any circumstances, should you attempt to injure or cause pain to your genitals to get an erection to go away. It's a perfectly normal and natural thing to happen to your body. And it'll go away eventually.
- If you have to give your body some sensation to get rid of an erection, there's nothing wrong with or unhealthy about occasional masturbation. It makes erections go away every time.
Tips
- Don't think of it or mess with it too much.
- Read a book or an article or play online games something that takes your mind of things!
- Wear long shirts that pass your belt loops to hide your "lump" from your waist band.
- Wear tight, comfortable-fitting underwear.
Warnings
- There's nothing physically dangerous about practicing healthy masturbation. Orgasms make erections go away every time.
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