Often happened when I was at a men's only naked group... chat would be on random topics, not sexual. One guy would start to firm up, without any stimulation and shortly afterwards a few more erections, myself included would pop up, then disappear again after a few minutes. No harm just nice to see men relaxed about it.
Being erect is the most beautiful state of manhood. If one sees that, it's contagious so all the men present reach such a height of beauty.Just wanted to bring this up (no pun intended) for more discussions. I love having a contagious erection and seeing who else stands at attention.
it sure is like that. I noticed that as a boy and even when raising my son or being around other males. Doesn't have to be erotic, it's just natural to get erect sometimes and seeing someone else erect triggers the same in us naturally too.
As I don't consider contagious boners a particularly sexual response, I researched the cause of another contagious behavior: yawning. One explanation of why people yawn when other people yawn is a phenomenon called echopraxia. I understand this to be defined as "monkey see, monkey do," as we've evolved as humans to be social creatures. A person sees a certain behavior and, if they're sensitive to it, will mimic it even unconsciously. Whereas I've read speculation that this is made possible by mirror neurons in the brain, I'm not aware of mirror neurons. Perhaps Hickguy or another doctor or scientist could give us a lesson on mirror boner neurons!
It totally does almost 100% in fact. For whatever reason that has been true for me since puberty. It is accentuated when I notice another getting an erection from watching mine which sort of validates just how universal the erection response is in any guy.
My wife has been a nudist all her life & my mother in law grew up in a nudist home. We were at her parent's home for Thanksgiving with several others from her extended family. It went like this: male #1 gets a boner, then male #2 gets a boner. Male #3 comes into the room for a moment and gets a boner. By this time male #1 has gone down and so has #2. Male #4 chats up #3 and gets a boner and so does #2. Then #2 and #3 go soft, but # 1 pops up. This all happened before breakfast & the discussion of when to put the bird in. My wife, sister in law & mother in law call this whack-a-mole. One pops up & then goes down & then it pops up again!