Hi, it's me again! (i wonder if anybody remembers me, though..)i just drop by every once in a while and read up, hope i'll get some advice without bothering anybody.. (thing is, i can never pin-point out a problem, and don't even know if i have any )but the general advice and getting to know various.. situations that can arise in life is interesting for me.However! (dramatic drumroll) today i make a contribution.i happened to learn in biology a some time ago that a 'boner' (male erection!) is a Reflex. just like pain reflexes when you touch something unexpectedly hot or get pricked by a needle.this means that men have pretty much no or very limited control over it, and really can't be blamed for one. (plus, it's not something bad either )it's actually quite useful that it was a reflex, otherwise it would have been quite difficult for prehistoric people to figure things out..hope it was useful
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BONERS!
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Good information! I'm pretty glad it is a reflex too. Less work for me.
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It's can be a reflex, or not: You can think about something that makes you horny and get an erection. (A physiology expert will have to tell us whether it meets the formal definintion of "reflex".)
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"Reflex- Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector."that is from dictionary.com, I think a boner is an exception to the "involuntary" rule, it is a reflex that you can cause yourself by thinking about soemthign that gets you off
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"Reflex- Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector."that is from dictionary.com, I think a boner is an exception to the "involuntary" rule, it is a reflex that you can cause yourself by thinking about soemthign that gets you off
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it is a reflex that you can cause yourself by thinking about soemthign that gets you offThat is a self-contradiction.It looks like an erection can be a reflex -- or not.
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hehe, well, maybe thats my favorate reflex..the gag reflex certainly isnt very fun....
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it's still a reflex, though it's like saying (at least in my opinion, that is..) that pain reflex (the OW! bit when pricked by a needle) isn't a reflex if you prick yourself..(thinking of something that gets you hard, for example)