What your morning erection is telling you about your health
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Why do erections pop up during the night and not during the day?
Read MoreHaving morning erections is a barometer of a man’s physiological fitness.
Read MoreIt’s easy to laugh at poor George Costanza for his shrunken manhood, but some reports suggest that only about 55% of men are satisfied with their penis size. Some men actually seek potentially dangerous surgical solutions to a problem that is often only in their head. Clearly men have a very distorted picture of what the average size is or what the best size is for optimal sexual performance. A number of studies have tried to understand this cultural connotation with penis size and sexual performance.
Read MoreSexual dysfunction often refers to different symptoms in men and women, yet can share similar underlying causes.
In women, it is often characterized by low sexual desire or various disorders of functions like sexual arousal, orgasm, and sexual pain.
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