History Main / RagingStiffie

* ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'': The assassin sent to kill Misora in chapter 25 suddenly gets an erection that he says afterwards was due to exhaustion. Akira then pops in to explain several theories on why men can become erect under stress. According to the tankoubon notes, [[EnforcedTrope the author just needed a way to break the standoff between Misora and the assassin and couldn't think of anything else]].

** In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8908251/1/A-Place-of-Safety-Later-On A Place of Safety-Later On]]'' has Mal getting aroused and trying to hide it when Inara massages him after “War Stories” and his torture by Niska. She gives him a scalp massage after Simon finishes cleaning his wounds and soon after, a foot massage. She’d hoped it wouldn’t be an issue with Mal’s physical condition, but was wrong. There’s no attempt at sex though due to Mal’s condition.
** “[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5181260/1/Above-and-Beyond Above and Beyond]] Wash and Zoe are under fire in a tight spot on a hillside and she’s very much tightly wedged on his lap. His body can’t help react to his wife moving around on certain areas.
-->'''Zoe:''': "Wash, what the hell?"
-->'''Wash''': "It's natural!" he blurted, staring earnestly up at her. "It's biological! It's a natural, biological, scientific response! To danger and, and stimulus. Dangerous stimulus."

* Emperor Nero uses this to his advantage in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' to find out which of his wife's attendants is an imposter. (The rest are eunuchs.)

* In ''The Pursuit of Happyness'', Chris Gardner relates that, as a teenager, he often had unwanted erections at completely random times. One particularly embarrassing one happened while he was about to help up an elderly woman he used to take care of.

* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', this is PlayedForDrama when it happens to Rain, who, as a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}}feminine teen, finds this [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p357-Anatomy-376330721 not only embarrassing but also dysphoria inducing]], which [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p358-Function-377054964 makes her depressed]].

** Later in the series, when his new (and not at all welcome) roommate, [[TheVamp Vamp]] shows up, the two start out the first morning by elbowing each other for room at the mirrors. Eventually Vamp (who is both intersexed and [[AnythingThatMoves pansexual]]) gives up, but gives not before throwing a TakeThat at Ayla: she stood and saluted him, then explained that she was waiting to see if he would 'run a flag up that pole'.

* Has become MemeticMutation for [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] of Music/XJapan and Music/VioletUK, alongside jokes that he either has a camera fetish or takes a certain blue pill before photoshoots and shows, due to the [[IncrediblyLamePun somewhat large and growing]] collection of pictures from photoshoots and performances. It's also arguable that if it is on purpose, it is as much as a subversive protest against Japanese censorship ideals (and possibly Western racist stereotypes regarding Asian men) as much as it is for {{fanservice}}.

** Another episode took place at a Rennaisance Faire. As a busty woman in a low-cut dress walked by a row of men in armor, each one emitted a clanking sound...except for [[ButtMonkey Mort Goldman]], who simply said "Ding!"

Contrast TheLoinsSleepTonight. See also SomethingElseAlsoRises and BiggerIsBetterInBed. Compare OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, which has more erotic undertones than this trope. May be caused by a PottyEmergency, or vice versa. May result in a NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization, which itself leads to DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale or DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale, or simply jump to the latter without going through the former (which itself may or may not be implied). In some cases it's solved by masturbating; in others, JizzedInMyPants may be the result.

* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', this is PlayedForDrama when it happens to Rain who as a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}}feminine teen not only [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p357-Anatomy-376330721 finds this embarrassing but also dysphoria inducing]] which [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p358-Function-377054964 makes her depressed]].

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** The morning one happens to Shinji in the AlternateUniverse. Unfortunately for him, [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] is the first to notice it. Cue slapping.
--->'''Asuka:''' Come on, GET UP! ''[{{beat}}]'' You stupid pervert, I didn't mean to get [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed THAT]] up!
** Also, his "thermal expansion" when overhearing Asuka and Misato [[SkinshipGrope at the hot springs]].

* The second volume of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' manga had Hajime suffer from this. Worse yet, Miyuki thought it was something in his pocket and started going through them. The next scene Hajime has a slap-print on his face.
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Rei inadvertently causes Takashi to have one in chapter 6 when she makes out with him on the stairs. Mainly because she was only wearing a camisole and a pair of thong panties, so Takashi breaks the kiss and tells her they should stop. It confuses Rei 'til she looks down between his legs.
-->'''Rei:''' ''(giggles)'' "Oooh... you got a stiffie."
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
** In the manga, Mion comments on Keiichi being "perky" in the morning (with an arrow following her gaze to his crotch, if the innuendo was too subtle for you) during the first arc. She may just be teasing, though... However, Keiichi does make a comment on how it's her fault he'd be "perky".
** In the first arc of ''Kai'', Rena survives becoming a zombie in Zombie Tag when she ''induces'' this in Keiichi.

%%* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'': Teacher, Kurono's got a hard-on!
* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', the novel version of ''End of Day By Day'', when Gauron was reminiscing about [[LoveAtFirstSight how he first saw Sousuke]], as well as talking about how Sousuke was a beautiful Assassin Saint that he wanted to kill and rape, Gauron starts taunting Sousuke... and through the darkness, Sousuke notices something ''from the middle of the bed'' that seemed to be rising and "beckoning" him. Since Gauron had no arms... or legs... and there's really nothing else other than that thing between his legs that could possibly be coming from the middle of the bed... yeah. It's sufficient to say that Sousuke was [[ChasteHero thoroughly freaked out]].
* The second episode of ''Literature/{{Trapeze}}'' is about this, in the form of an erection that lasts for days. Eventually, it's revealed to have psychosomatic causes. ([[ArtisticLicenseBiology It is acknowledged that this kind of priapism is unrealistic]].)
* In ''Literature/LadiesVersusButlers'', Sanae straddles main character Akiharu's lap in order to scrub his back (she apparently didn't think it through very well) and can't seem to work out what is poking her in the butt.
* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': Seiji has one after Ayase mistakes sleeping pills for vitamin tablets, causing her to panic and straddle his waist to check on him, which is the sight he wakes up to. Just as she starts to ask if he's okay, [[LuminescentBlush her face turns beet red]] as she feels Seiji's erection poke her underneath her skirt. Ayase immediately cups her hand between her thighs and belts him.
* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'': Shingo has this happen to him twice in the span of about 20 pages in the first arc, and it's used as an EstablishingCharacterMoment where he finds his masculinity. Both of which revolve around a tiger who he later befriends. In the first, it's from him simply staring the tiger down. In the second, he imagines said tiger to be engaging in some LecherousLicking with Aira Muto when both of them are cornered in a hot spring by the same animal.
* There is a notorious panel in ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' where Shinichi (who has a parasitic alien fused with his right hand) gets aroused... and Migi, reflecting this arousal, ''turns into a giant penis''.
* Saiga of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' gets an erection whenever he takes exciting photographs with his camera.

* [[ButtMonkey Keitaro]] of ''Manga/LoveHina'' has been caught with one of these more than once throughout the series, due to the first two types. Much to his embarrassment.
* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' this trope shows up in an early episode. Since main character Seina won't wake up and get out of bed his friend Kiriko tears the covers off only to discover his morning wood, he is shown in the very next scene eating breakfast with a large red (undeserved) slap mark on his face.

* The ''Manga/{{Umisho}}'' manga occasionally shows Takeda's reaction to the {{Fanservice}} surrounding him.
* Satou gets one twice in ''Literature/BenTo'' -- one in Episode 5 while Matsy takes care of him after [[spoiler:he gets the shit beaten out of him by the Monarch]] and another one in [[BeachEpisode Episode 7]] after seeing the Brunette's top fall off. [[spoiler:He manages to weaponize the latter by using it as a rudder.]] ItMakesSenseInContext.
* Heavily implied in a ''Manga/WanderingSon'' chapter. Nitori, who is a transgender girl, is getting a massage by her girlfriend but ends up getting an erection. Her older sister Maho walks in right when it happens, [[NotWhatItLooksLike causing a stir]].

* Happens to Bird's Nest of ''Manga/CopernicusBreathing'' when he unexpectedly runs into Leo, the juggler of his old circus troupe. It was implied earlier that Bird's Nest had a thing for Leo based on the small smiles he gave him, but this confirms it. Ends in masturbation. Helps lead into one of Bird's Nest's {{Break the Cutie}} moments when [[spoiler: Leo messes up his juggling routine and drops 16 pins on his head, causing one of Bird's Nest's {{Freak Out}}s.]]

* In ''Literature/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'', this is of the second variety and played for humor. Tigre offhandedly mentions in Volume One that this is a bad thing to have when Teita wakes him up in the morning and his body is uncovered, and he later has another when sharing a bed with [[spoiler:Olga, the wandering Vanadis]], which she calmly points out and doesn't hold against him.
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** In the light novel version of the Angel Fall arc, Kaori Kanzaki forces Touma Kamijou to strip and then starts poking and prodding him to check for injuries. Naturally, he gets an erection.
** During a meeting of the world leaders, Roberto Katze, the President of the United States, reads a dirty magazine and shamelessly hits on the females in the room. His secretary looks down and is disgusted by what she sees.

* In ''Literature/AmagiBrilliantPark'', Triken constantly records, watches, and edits videos of sexy girls. He often comments that he'll need to hunch over for a while.
* Defied in the first ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' [[AllThereInTheManual Sound Stage]]. When everyone goes to a public bath, [[TheOneGuy Erio]] decides to go to the men's side even though he's young enough to go with everyone else to the woman's side. Since he's in a group with attractive women whose ages range between 10 and 32 (which includes his coworkers, his boss, and his ''mom''), this was a ''very'' smart move.

* ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'': Played '''horrifically''' by the titular Ichi, a {{Sadist}}, once got a Raging Stiffie so bad nothing would relieve it. Even a blowjob from the local [[LoveHotels love hotel]] only made him puke, his "friend" Jijii resorting to giving him meds just to keep it down. [[spoiler:Eventually, he is able to get it down, by jerking off to the sight of his recently acquired prostitute friend being abused by her boyfriend. [[{{Squick}} Yeah]].]]

* ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'': Reg gets this occasionally, mostly triggered by seeing Riko undressed or touching something especially fluffy, much to his embarassment. Mostly [[PlayedForLaughs for comic purpose]], but this might be another hint that he's more human than he [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots seems]].
* Zapp has one for ADayInTheLimelight in ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront''. Thankfully, the anime version of the scene greatly downplays his huge erection in the middle of battle (showing it as a thermal hotspot instead).

* ''Literature/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': Chisato causes her nephew to get one during a scene at her apartment. She was wearing one of his school uniform shirts, while ''[[GoingCommando stark naked]]'' underneath and tells him to hold her tightly against himself. When he tries to be AboveTheInfluence, she proves ''he isn't'' by rubbing her backside against his crotch and faintly smirks upon feeling him get an erection.
* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'' has a rare female example, when Clara passes out after having close contact with a phallic shaped alien parasite and regains consciousness in the school's infirmary. She finds herself being tended to by her best friend [[{{Meganekko}} Mei]], who's also [[LustObject her secret crush.]] Their conversation gets cut short when the sight of [[HartmanHips Mei's hips]] and her plump hindquarters cause the parasite to react to Clara's pent-up sexual urges by giving her a raging lady boner. Before either girl can respond, [[spoiler: the parasite takes over, pins Mei against the wall, and [[WallBangHer thoroughly ravishes her]]]].
* ''Manga/PeterGrillAndThePhilosophersTime'': Vegan Eldoriel uses magic to cause Peter Grill to have a massive erection that will only go away if he has sex with her. He has no choice but to sleep with her as it is pointed out that like in real life, an erection that goes on for too long will result in the member dying from lack of blood flow.
* ''Manga/MolesterMan'': Molester Man is grateful to Loli for giving him a blanket when he's at her place watching ''Gundam'', since it hides his erection.
* ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'': Despite trying to remain chaste, Wakana Gojo is a HormoneAddledTeenager, so he has this often when in the proximity of the beautiful MsFanservice Marin Kitagawa. Two notable instances are when he takes her measurements while she's only wearing a bikini, and later [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they're in a love hotel and she's sitting on top of him]].
* Discussed in ''Manga/AsukaHybrid'': Asuka reluctantly shares a bath with Kasumi and rests assured [[GenderBender becoming female]] will conceal his arousal. [[InstantlyProvenWrong This causes him to notice]] his clitoris ''also'' gets erect--less obviously than a penis, but still easily visible when he's completely naked. Kasumi never brings it up because taking a bath [[SkinshipGrope was just a pretext to molest Asuka]].
-->''[[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed A girl's place]]... gets like this?''
* ''Literature/BottomTierCharacterTomozaki'': In Volume 9's fourth chapter after he gets home from an offline ''Atafami'' meetup. Tomozaki is already aroused since one of the female players, Rena, had been trying to seduce him the whole night, which he resisted because he has a girlfriend. When he gets home, he has a video call with said girlfriend and instantly gets turned on again: Thanks to his lust-filled state of mind, he starts viewing Fuuka in a sexual light for the first time as prior to this, all his thoughts about her had [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest stayed on the pure side]], but this time, he [[MaleGaze immediately notices her chest in her loose and unbuttoned pajamas]] and hears [[ArousedByTheirVoice the heat in her soft, pleading voice]], with the narrative even saying that the situation with his body was getting "a bit dicey, as a guy." At the end of the scene, he is actually happy he's able to think about Fuuka in a less-than-chaste manner.
* ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'': The assassin sent to kill Misora in chapter 25 suddenly gets an erection that he says afterwards was due to exhaustion. Akira then pops in to explain several theories on why men can become erect under stress. According to the tankoubon notes, [[EnforcedTrope the author just needed a way to break the standoff between Misora and the assassin and couldn't think of anything else]].

* Causes a problem for Thugboy when he is sharing a bed with Ninjette in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''.

* In the ''Film/NationalLampoon'' comic strip ''Timberland Tales'' by B.K. Taylor, Maurice the little Canadian-Indian boy inadvertently sees Kathleen in the shower and gets a sudden erection - he panics and cries out "'Alp! Some kind animal in Maurice's pants!"

* In the ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics, befalls Giles, of all people, with Faith when she comforts him by hugging him. [[spoiler: Give him a break though, he was resurrected as a twelve-year-old.]]

* A ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' fanfic existed in which two guys fell asleep spooned together, and when they woke up one's erection had [[ImprobableAimingSkills managed to work its way inside the other guy's rectum]] [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex while they were still asleep]]. [=MSTing=] [[http://chelonianmobile.livejournal.com/2007/08/10/ here]].
* In ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', Mala gets one when Power Girl dares Badra to catfight her.
-->She had been gauging the pressure of his grip with great accuracy. Her talk to Badra had a specific effect on Mala, she could tell by a certain feeling against her back.
* Implied in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'' when [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mordru's]] chamberlain sees Kara's evil duplicate Satan Girl naked.
-->The chamberlain, a black-haired, black-bearded man in an orange tunic and pants, looked upon her with trepidation and male response.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Seigikan}}'' Light has this problem the morning [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence after having a beautiful dream of defeating and killing L]].
* In ''Fanfic/CadenceInAMinor'', part of Shining Armor's angst is that he gets these a lot whenever he thinks of or is around any female, but as soon as he's with his wife Princess Cadence, [[TheLoinsSleepTonight he can't get it up]].
* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheShoeboxProject'', Remus gets these after having {{Homoerotic Dream}}s about Sirius.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{fanon}}, there's a related phenomenon called ''wingboner'': when a pegasus gets aroused, his/her wings spread on their own. This succeeds in converting more than a few events in the series into {{Double Entendre}}s.

* ''The Proposal'' (see below) is parodied in an episode of ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', with Deadpool [[ActorAllusion as Ryan Reynolds]] and Wonder Woman as Sandra Bullock. Bullock was linked to the Wonder Woman role for a while.

* During a dual-synch test with Rei in ''Fanfic/NeonMetathesisEvangelion'', Shinji has a certain problem.
-->Ayanami wiggled slightly. ''Oh gods''. She was wiggling again. Maybe she was sitting uncomfortably, which would be... ''ehem... EHEM''... understandable. Though the wiggling did the exact opposite of helping with that problem. ''Damn it, are those suits thin!''
* Sported by Hans in ''Fanfic/TheQueensConsort'' when [[TakeThatKiss Anna practically made-out with Elsa right in front of him after he came onto Elsa and questioned Anna's fidelity.]]

* ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears'': In "Boy Scouts, Sex, and Other Mysterious Things", Jean Grey notices Scott Summers' "little, growing trouble" when she tries to seduce him.
-->She bit him through his t-shirt. "You really do have the mind of a bad boy, underneath that cold, icy exterior," she purred. "But I know you aren't made of the stone you like to show everyone else." Then she looked up at him and smirked. "At least not most of you anyway."

* Several times in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', usually by Harry, due to the fact that he starts the story aged 13; and as noted by the narrative, he is surrounded by very attractive ladies a lot of the time.
** In the first story, when being pestered by Ron for details of his SleepCute moment in regards to the mountain incident a chapter or two before, he remembers being close to Carol, who is noted to be especially attractive, and Harry is now very thankful for both the table and the cloth hiding his reaction to it.
** More frequent in the second story, with Harry having to stealthily exit the bed he was platonically sharing with Carol and going for a cold shower. Later, when talking to 'Nathan', an alternate version of himself, they see another version about to engage in some [[ShowerOfLove shower sex]], which causes this and a great deal of associated mortification, much to Nathan's amusement.
* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Empath's Honeymoon", while Tapper is in a private discussion with his friend Duncan [=McSmurf=] as Empath and Smurfette are on their honeymoon together, Tapper tells Duncan in polite terms that he gets so stimulated being near Smurfette at times that he fears she's going to see this appearing in his "nether regions" whenever he's near her. Duncan humorously refers to this as having "a banana in his pants".
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Izuku has an ImagineSpot of Jirou with his arms around him, her body pressing against his and him feeling every part of her through his skintight costume while he climbs up a building. He's implied to have gotten a hard-on and has to ThinkUnsexyThoughts to get rid of it, being thankful that male superheroes like him wear cups while out in the field.
* Alice is outed as a trans woman in ''Fanfic/{{Metamorphosis}}'' when her body reacts while kissing Sei.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Cameo,” Blaze mentions an instance where Bolt gets an erection onscreen, occurring when the latter is pretending to read an issue of ''Dog Fancy'' magazine while shadowing a villain.
* ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'': While DrowningTheirSorrows in a seedy bar in Croatia, Steve Rogers mentions to Sam Wilson that back in the thirties and forties, Bucky used to sing popular music from the time while engaging in foreplay or having sex with little pre-SuperSerum Steve. The two things would connect in Steve's mind, leading to poor Steve having to "fix [his] fuckin' pants in a hurry" if he happened to overhear some song Bucky sang during sex in public later. [[DoubleEntendre Dick move, Barnes.]]
* In ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'', Lieutenant Jay Gee James Hunter had the third example of this trope. [[CoitusInterruptus While he was having a magically-enhanced threesome with Sirius and Estelle]], the Abyssals launched an attack and they had to HoldTheLine until reinforcements arrived. Because he was quite visibly erect under ill-fitting clothes when reinforcements finally arrived, Lieutenant Hunter became known as [[EmbarrassingNickname Lieutenant Full Mast]] to everyone else at St. Thomas Naval Base.
* ''{{Franchise/Firefly}}'' :
** In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8908251/1/A-Place-of-Safety-Later-On A Place of Safety-Later On]]'' has Mal getting aroused and trying to hide it when Inara massages him after “War Stories” and his torture by Niska. She gives him a scalp massage after Simon finishes cleaning his wounds and soon after, a foot massage. She’d hoped it wouldn’t be an issue with Mal’s physical condition, but was wrong. There’s no attempt at sex though due to Mal’s condition.
** “[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5181260/1/Above-and-Beyond Above and Beyond]] Wash and Zoe are under fire in a tight spot on a hillside and she’s very much tightly wedged on his lap. His body can’t help react to his wife moving around on certain areas.
-->'''Zoe:''' :”Wash, what the hell?”
-->'''Wash''':"It's natural!" he blurted, staring earnestly up at her. "It's biological! It's a natural, biological, scientific response! To danger and, and stimulus. Dangerous stimulus."

* When Charlie Sheen's character came BackForTheDead in ''Film/ScaryMovie4'' this was part of his death. He accidentally swallows a whole container of Viagra in a failed attempt to overdose. His penis inflates to ridiculous proportions and he throws himself out of a window, landing face down, with his hips nowhere near the floor.
* After being kissed by Black Widow in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', she asks Steve if he's still uncomfortable. Bonus points in that she bought him clothes a size too small already. Uncomfortable, indeed.
-->'''Steve:''' That's not exactly the word I'd use to describe it.

* The title character in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' twice wakes up with morning wood and has trouble, uh, aiming while going to the bathroom. Parodied in ''The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Then Felt Superbad About It'', where it manages to reach his chest and then his ''forehead''. It's then implied that he can use it (once it has shrunk back, presumably) to turn the pages of the newspaper he's reading.
* Similar to the above, in ''Film/FortyDaysAndFortyNights'' Josh Harnett's character wakes up with an erection that causes him trouble when doing his breakfast... and later has a problem when he is visibly aroused during a work meeting.
* ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'': "Irene, why am I pissing like I've had sex all night?"
* In ''Film/IThinkILoveMyWife'', Chris Rock's character has one of these when he takes Viagra. Which results in his having to be drained in the back of an ambulance with a very large needle.
* The opening cartoon of ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' shows this happening to a young Stu Miley. In fact, Monkeybone himself is the personification of Stu's libido, as his name would suggest.
* In ''Film/ShriekIfYouKnowWhatIDidLastFridayTheThirteenth'' one of the teens [[spoiler: appears to die of a heart attack, but it's later revealed that he'd taken an entire bottle of Viagra in anticipation of a sexual encounter, and the raging erection kept his heart pumping]].
* In his documentary ''Film/ACompleteHistoryOfMySexualFailures'', Chris Waitt is suffering from erectile dysfunction and takes loads of Viagra. He gets an erection that will last for about eight hours and runs around the streets of London accosting women and asking them to have sex with him, a quest which ends with him spending the night in a police cell.
* ''Film/TheProposal'': Creator/SandraBullock and Creator/RyanReynolds' characters are posing as a couple, and try to act as if they were just spooning.
-->'''Margaret:''' Oh my god! What is that?!\\
'''Andrew:''' I'm sorry. It's morning!
* Played hilariously in ''Film/SororityBoys''. One of the boys DisguisedInDrag is taking a shower when the sorority's president playfully joins him. "Stop poking me in the butt!" It should be noted that the president (and also the love interest of the guy she's taking a shower with -- both when he's disguised as [[UnsettlingGenderReveal a woman]] and when he's a full male) is ''very'' near-sighted.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'', Steve Martin is teased by his new bride, and when he steps over to the French doors (lots of little glass panes), we hear the sound of glass breaking. He looks down. And again when he stands up with his hat on his lap. Let's just say he doesn't need to hold it there with his hands.
* ''Film/RoadTrip''. Old man + ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' + Viagra.
* Chev Chelios gets "a steel hardon" after taking too much epinephrine in ''Film/{{Crank}}''.
* Part of the opening sequence ''Film/BubbleBoy''. He wakes up one morning and (due to being raised by a ''very'' [[MyBelovedSmother conservative mother]]) believes that a rodent or similar has invaded his pants during his sleep. So, naturally, he grabs the nerf (with metal-core) baseball bat near his bed and [[GroinAttack gives said vermin a stout rap on the head...]] He then ''calls in his mother'' for help with the problem, which they solve by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. [[BeatPanel Then look down]] and recite it again.
* Occurs in ''Film/PeepWorld'' with Nathan, during a medical exam based off his premature ejaculation.

* Emperor Nero uses this to his advantage in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' to find out which of his wife's attendants is an imposter. (The rest are eunuchs.)

* In ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'', Creator/JakeGyllenhaal plays a pharmaceutical rep who becomes extremely successful when he starts selling Viagra. While on hiatus with his girlfriend, he goes to a pajama party thrown by a sexy coworker and has a threesome with her and another woman, right after the coworker pretty much force-feeds him a Viagra pill. In the morning, he finds out that this trope is in full effect and he runs to the hospital in his bathrobe to get it looked at.
* In ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'', the boys get stranded in the woods in their underwear and are forced to share body heat to survive. Dan gets an erection while thinking about the hot girls they met earlier that day, which freaks the other two out.

* In an interview with Creator/OliviaDeHavilland in ''The Adventures of Creator/ErrolFlynn'', she revealed that they had to film their kissing scene 8 or 9 times. The first of those were naturally to get multiple takes to choose from. The last ones were after Flynn had to take a break because he started getting fairly "uncomfortable in his pants".
* In a DeletedScene of ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (1997), Humbert gets sexually excited while tussling with Dolores on the sofa. She asks if he's ill because he's bending over while going up to his room. Humbert claims a toothache and quickly returns to the sofa.
* ''Film/PrettyCool'':
** Protagonist Howard uses his mind control powers to give a bully this while he's stood at the front of the class.
** And in [[Film/PrettyCoolToo the sequel]], the new protagonist Walter gives one to himself using his mind control phone. HilarityEnsues when his parents come home, and he's separated from the phone.
* In ''Film/KevinAndPerryGoLarge'', Kevin is caught up in a bank heist and told to keep his hands where the robbers can see them. One of the tellers bends down slightly to fill a bag full of money, inadvertently giving Kevin a [[MaleGaze brief glimpse of cleavage]]. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He hits the silent alarm under the desk, without moving his hands]].
* In ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'', Creator/EdwardNorton's character gets one onstage in front of 500 people.
* One scene in the third film of the ''Film/MeetTheParents'' series features Jack using a Viagra substitute he found in Greg's bag to satisfy his wife, shortly before confronting him with it. Greg quickly notices the slight bulge in his father-in-law's dressing gown and has to give him a very painful injection directly into it to counteract the effects before he has a heart attack. A particularly bad time for Greg's little boy to walk in on them.
* In ''Film/UnderTheSkin'', when the alien seduces her victim into the black void, they all take off the clothes and get erect penises.
* In ''Film/TheDreamers'', Theo forces Matthew to have sex with his sister. He tries to run away, but they catch him in the kitchen. Isabelle gets Matthew's pants down and we get an extreme close up on his erect penis.
* In ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' naked Richard is seen swimming with an erect penis. In the sequel ''Return to the Blue Lagoon'', his son, also named Richard wakes up with morning wood.
* In ''Film/SwissArmyMan'', Manny (who is a corpse, by the way) gets one when he sees a picture of a beautiful woman in a magazine, and his erection is used as a compass.
* The 1930 pre-Code film ''Film/TheDivorcee'' has a joke related to this. Jerry's boyfriend hugs her from behind and says something in French. She replies with "I don't understand French, but I know the symptoms of high blood pressure in any language."
* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'': Bethany, in Oberon's body, gets an erection after she hugs Alex. Spencer and Fridge have to point it out to her.
-->'''Bethany/Shelly:''' Oh my god, these things are crazy!

* Discussed in ''Film/SilentNight2012'', when Deputy Bradimore is called to investigate a Santa accused of disturbing the children:
-->'''Giles:''' Maybe he got a boner.\\
'''Bradimore:''' Ugh.\\
'''Giles:''' Kids are squirming in his lap all day. It's bound to happen sooner or later.
* In ''Film/TheJaneAustenBookClub,'' [[TeacherStudentRomance Prudie and Trey]] kiss in her car but quickly put the kibosh on it, both because she knows it's wrong and then because her husband actually shows up. She tells him to get out and he mutters that he needs a moment, using the open Austen novel on her dashboard to cover his crotch.
* In ''Film/GuestHouseParadiso'', when beautiful Italian film star Gina Carbonara asks if she can have her salad "undressed" (meaning without any dressing), Richie and Eddie take her dinner up to her room - both naked, save for chefs hats covering their modesty.
-->'''Gina:''' That's a very big hat!
-->'''Eddie:''' Well, you're a very attractive bird!

* ''Film/{{Bullshot}}''. Archy walks in on the hero Bullshot, who is excited by the fact that he's got a case to solve. As Bullshot is only dressed in his long johns, the exact nature of his excitement is...[[BiggusDickus obvious]].

* Morning wood comes as an unnerving and mortifying shock to a woman who has [[BodySwap switched bodies]] with a male friend in ''Curse The Dawn''.

* Nimue Alban in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' books learns just how "fully functional" her robotic body is when, as the ''[[GenderBender male]]'' Merlin Athrawes, he learns that the Safeholdian version of rugby is played in the nude, and Nimue, for all her body was male, was still a woman where what was attractive to her was concerned. When Cayleb learns Merlin's true identity and is reminded of this incident, he finds it absolutely hilarious.
-->'''Cayleb:''' Oh, my God! ''That'' was why you stayed in the water! Why you were so damned careful about that towel!

* Creator/JudyBlume's book ''Literature/ThenAgainMaybeIWont'' is about a boy going through puberty. He often gets erections at embarrassing times, such as in school.

* In ''Literature/BridgetJones Diary'', Bridget dances with a teenage boy she meets at a party during a smoke break.
-->"... the trouble was, he seemed to have, well, not to put too fine a point on it, the most enormous erection I've ever had the good fortune to come across, and us dancing so close it was not the sort of thing one could pass off as a pencil case."
* ''Literature/MyUncleOswald'' is about the titular uncle selling Viagra.
* In a short story by ''Creator/StephenKing'' called "Autopsy Room Four", a paralyzed man about to be autopsied by doctors who think he is dead is saved at the last second when he gets an erection.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/ColdDays'' Harry ends up getting one during a life-or-death fight while riding behind [[ActionGirl Murphy]] on her motorbike. While it is played partly for dry comedy, it has some pretty serious undertones, as it contradicts Harry's assurances that he's got his BloodKnight SuperPoweredEvilSide, i.e. the [[spoiler:mantle of the Winter Knight]], under control. The truly spooky part is that Murphy is the one who tells him he had it at all--Harry ''didn't even notice it.''
** After poor Harry wakes up from his intensely hot [[spoiler:EroticDream starring him and Murphy]] in ''Literature/SkinGame'', he's sporting one of these so intense that Murphy sees it from across the bedroom, in the dark, under the covers - or at the very least, it doesn't take much deduction to work it out once she realises that his suddenly waking up wasn't caused by a nightmare. Harry just sighs, accepts the embarrassment, and puts a pillow over his shame. To her credit, though, Murphy doesn't give him too much of a hard time about it, badum-pssh. Instead, she seems rather interested, simply remarking with a wicked smirk that after the immediate crisis is over... they should, ah, ''talk.''
* In ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution'', this happens to [[spoiler:Nick]] not thirty pages into the book when he's talking to Kahlee Sanders.
* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Salzella and Bucket are described as walking ''very'' awkwardly as they retreat - in some haste - from the room after dining upon Nanny Ogg's [[LovePotion Chocolate Delight with Special Secret Sauce]].
* This happens to Fiyero in ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' when he thinks of Elphaba:
-->And Elphie wasn't just a different (not to say novel) provincial type--she seemed an advance on the gender, an advance on the ''species'' sometimes. He caught himself with a mammoth erection just remembering that last time, and he had to hide behind some ladies' scarves in a shop until it subsided.
* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Sidekicks-Jack-D-Ferraiolo/dp/1419701851 Sidekicks]]'' kicks off with the teenage character rescuing a woman during a mission. A woman who's suddenly clutching him really tightly, and while he's wearing a costume that he's been complaining is too small for him. Naturally, there are reporters at the scene, so the next day he's the laughingstock of the whole city. This prompts his goal throughout the rest of the book to shed his KidSidekick image and be taken more seriously.

* ''Literature/{{Forbidden}}:'' This happens to Lochan when he helps his sister Maya practice dancing. It’s what first alerts him that he has actual romantic feelings for her. He even mentions that he briefly forgot she was his sister.
* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' it happens a few times, with the male narrator euphemistically saying something like "my body responded" to whichever magically-attractive female character caused it this time.
* This is the means by which Felix's sexual feelings for Mildmay, his own brother, are revealed in ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'' when the two of them are forced to cling together for safety. Mildmay isn't even [[IncompatibleOrientation gay]], let alone willing to commit [[IncestantAdmirer incest]], therefore he's pretty spooked, even though he tries to be as nice about it as possible. Meanwhile Felix - who hadn't even been planning on ''telling'' Mildmay about his feelings, let alone acting on them - is understandably humiliated. Much awkwardness ensues.
* ''Literature/EyeOfAFly'': To Ernest's embarrassment, even casual interactions with attractive women leave him with uncontrollable sexual thoughts and a visible erection, but sexual encounters leave him cold, which is part of the reason why he's still a virgin.
* ''Literature/ImInMarsportWithoutHilda''. The protagonist is a government agent who has to identify which of three men is faking symptoms of a drug they've taken. He begins to describe in lurid terms the sex he's missing out on by having to attend this interrogation, then says, [[{{Pun}} "Rise, gentlemen!"]] and arrests the man whose erection is exposed when he stands up.
* ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy'' has Simon Moon remembering his school, where a Creator/DorisDay lookalike teacher has this effect on him and his classmates.
--> She opens her mouth and closes it and opens and closes it and finally takes such a deep breath that every boy in the room (we’re all on the cusp of puberty) gets a hard-on from watching her breasts heave up and slide down again. I mean, they’re all praying (except me, I’m an atheist, of course) that they won’t get called on to stand up; if it wouldn’t attract attention, they’d be clubbing their dicks down with their geography books.
* ''The Last Day of Creation'' by Wolfgang Jeschke. The leader of the ApeMen aiding the protagonists has a massive erection after fighting a battle.

* ''Series/TheHardTimesOfRJBerger'' has an episode at a school play where HilarityEnsues due to an "pitching the tent" incident, and since the main character RJ has a large penis, there you go.
* [[CorruptCop The Sheriff]] in ''Series/TheHeartSheHoller'' gets one after his JailBaitWait for Hershey was reduced from ten years to a week. [[BlackComedy Yes, he really plans to wait ten years for her to be legal again.]]
* A ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' skit has Johnny Knoxville walking around with a fake penis in his pants acting completely unaware of it.
* Kevin and Perry from ''Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums'' got these in pretty much every episode and multiple times in [[Film/KevinAndPerryGoLarge their own movie]].
* Chris from ''Series/{{Skins}}'' has this problem in one episode, due to taking a whole lot of viagra. It gets really awkward later when he dances with Angie(whom he likes) and she notices it and leaves.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** Something ''like it'' happened to Kryten in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVDNA DNA]]" when he became human; though it didn't cause embarrassment so much as curiosity. And two polaroids. WordOfGod says that Creator/CraigCharles' funny reaction to being handed the pictures was real because the 'prop' pictures of a penis were replaced with real ones at the last minute without telling him.
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIPetePartI Pete Part I]]", in order to win a basketball match, Lister and Rimmer spike the opposing team's drinks with a 'virility enhancement drug'. As The Cat put it, "try moving fast with a fishing pole in your pants!" [[ChewToy Captain Hollister]] takes a swig too and later complains of having to do a handstand every time he wanted to use the urinal.

* Elliot in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' treated a patient that suffered this due to a Viagra overdose. A HurricaneOfPuns ensue.
* A SpeculativeFiction-Viagra version happens to Jason in ''Series/TrueBlood'' after he does way, ''way'' too much [[FantasticDrug V]].
* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "The Accused is Entitled", one suspect cannot stand up after having popped some Viagra on the plane. When Catherine finds out that the erection has lasted for several hours, she tells him to seek medical attention.
* This apparently happens to Jake during his birthday party on ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' after he mistakes Viagra for vitamin pills.
-->'''[[ServileSnarker Berta]]:''' The kid's gonna need another party hat.
* The entire premise of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNdXE1UMLk this]] ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' sketch.
* The first time Holly spoons with Ben on ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'', her alarmed InnerMonologue makes the audience aware that the [[GoofyPrintUnderwear duckies on his boxers]] are moving.
* Meredith on ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' has a one-night stand with a guy who turns up at the hospital the next day. "It hasn't gone away since we... you know..." Meredith was humiliated, Bailley was annoyed, Derek was hurt, and Cristina found it freakin' hilarious. "What? It's not ''my'' fault you broke the guy's dick!"
* The infamous "Erection Steve" from the British TalentShow ''[[Series/TheXFactor Xtra Factor]].'' To be fair, he ''is'' in the vicinity of Music/CherylCole (whose reaction is priceless).
* ''Series/MadAboutYou'' had one in the episode Paul tries Viagra.

* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', the perp gets one during his trial. Everyone can't help but stare at it when he, without thinking, stands up. Worse, it was being established that he liked torturing women.

* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': in the segment "Erecto-Phobia", a cuckolding boyfriend suddenly finds himself with a little soldier who just keeps standing at attention. He takes advantage of the situation by sleeping with three girls throughout the night before suddenly dropping dead. As it turns out, he had been bit by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneutria Brazilian wandering spider]], and his priapism was a symptom of its venom.
* ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' did the Viagra version of this with Ted, giving him what appeared to be a 24-hour erection. Of course, since Ted tends to be [[TheChewToy a chew toy]], the problem [[TheLoinsSleepTonight resolved itself]] as soon as a hot man tried to pick him up.

* Cash slips Cameron pills that do this in ''Series/BreakingIn'' as part of their prank war.
* Joe from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' gets one of these when he's helping Quinn out with her physical therapy.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** In "Amends", Willow goes all out to try and seduce Oz. She gets a bit worried when he stands up and she thinks he's going to leave, so says she's ready to sleep with him. Oz quickly decides he needs to sit back down.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E6WildAtHeart Wild at Heart]]", Oz has sex with Veruca while they're in their werewolf forms. The next day he regrets this as he's involved with Willow, but Veruca is eager to continue the relationship and brings up the wild wolf sex they had, whereupon her gaze flicks downward as she purrs, "I know some part of you remembers that."
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Dirty Girls]]", Xander wakes up from a dream involving scantily-clad teenagers having a pillow fight, to the reality of frumpy girls in pajamas complaining about a blocked toilet. He asks them to give him a moment before getting out of bed, as he 'has a cramp'.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E04Untouched Untouched]]", Darla has been trying to corrupt Angel by using magic to send him dreams of his vampire kills. He claims to find them nightmarish, but...
--->'''Bethany:''' It looked like a pretty happy dream -- or maybe the covers were just rumpled.
** In "[[Recap/AngelS03E13WaitingInTheWings Waiting in the Wings]]", a spell is making Angel and Cordelia start KissingUnderTheInfluence, so they try to get out of the room where it's affecting them.
--->'''Cordelia:''' Open the door!\\
'''Angel:''' ''(struggling with door)'' Kinda hard.\\
'''Cordelia:''' Kinda noticed.
** And then when they finally get out...
--->'''Cordelia:''' Good thing it wears off right away, huh?\\
'''Angel:''' Yeah. ''[takes off jacket and folds it in front of his pants]''
* In the ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' episode "This Is How a Heart Breaks", Maura realises a 'corpse' just delivered to the morgue is not dead when he gets an erection and she feels a pulse in his penis.
* Jacob, one of the eponymous guest characters in the second-season ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' episode "And the Three Boys With Wood."
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The morning version happens to Jon Snow after being forced to sleep huddled up close to Ygritte to stave off the cold.
-->'''Ygritte:''' [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe Did you pull a knife on me in the night?]]\\
''[Jon suddenly stands up, hunched over and clearly embarrassed]''
* Ryan Lochte, on a recent episode of his E! reality TV series ''Series/WhatWouldRyanLochteDo?'', was shown laying in his bed, admiring his prodigious, erm... rudder.
* ''Series/PhoenixNights'' during the club's 'Family Fun Day' with a bouncy castle from Amsterdam...
* In ''Series/TheNewStatesman'', [[VillainProtagonist Alan]] ends up [[ItMakesSenseInContext having to hijack a plane]], and he takes the SexyStewardess hostage. He holds her back against him to use as a human shield with one hand and holds a grenade in the other. She begs the fliers to "Do what he says, he's got a gun pressing into my back!"
* Antoine in the first ''[[Series/TheChallenge Challenge: Battle of the Sexes]]'' season ended up having one during a mission when flirting with a judge. As he was in a pool of water and wearing a speedo, [[LampshadeHanging she calls him out on it]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments to hilarious effect]].
* In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Lay Me Down", Audrey wakes Nathan up while he was having an EroticDream about her. He looks down and awkwardly covers his lap with a pillow.

* ''Series/TheAffair'': While they're staying at Yvonne and Robert's mansion, Alison helps out with Robert's physical therapy after he fires his housekeeper. After massaging his legs and telling him about her passionate affair with Noah, she realizes that he's rock hard.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In "Digital Exploration of Interior Design", the Subway executive listens to the tape of Britta and "corpo-humanoid" Subway's apparently "way out of the mainstream" sexual explorations in disgust and horror. When it comes time to leave, however, the executive seems curiously reluctant to leave his seat:
-->'''Subway executive:''' If someone could hand me my jacket?\\
'''Pierce:''' ''(helpfully)'' It's right over there on the coat rack next to the door.\\
'''Subway executive:''' ...If somebody could just hand it to me, that would be great.\\
''(awkward pause)''\\
'''Dean Pelton:''' I guess I'm confused; why don't you just grab it on your way out the door--\\
'''Subway executive:''' You know what? Now I'm ''not'' leaving! Now I'm just going to sit for a while and focus on how unacceptable today was.
* In one episode of ''Series/Warehouse13'', Myka complains about Pete not closing his bathrobe in the morning. Pete's response? "That's involuntary, Myka; all guys wake up like that."
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. A body tech called Destin likes [[DudeShesLikeInAComa having sex with the deactivated Hosts]]. Unfortunately, while he's doing this, another [[AIIsACrapshoot Host wakes up and starts killing the techs]]. When Destin whirls to face his attacker, [[BlackComedy there's a noticeable bulge in his apron]].
* In the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' episode ''How to Recede in Business'', when Rebecca finds out at a restaurant that Sam's plan was to get into bed with her as a reward for getting their boss to rehire Rebecca (without telling her it was under extremely crappy conditions), she simply whispers to his ears all the randy, salacious things they could do. Then she just ditches him at the restaurant because she knows Sam won't be able to stand up for a while in public.
* In the episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' about a genie, Mulder brings Scully evidence of a possible past owner of a genie. Aside from becoming an overnight millionaire, he was hospitalized for "Chronic Morbid Tumescence". This was apparently a side effect of a wish because when he was wheeled in they also had to [[GagPenis raise the doorframe]].
* In ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'', Decetive Jack Cloth allows his partner Anne Oldman to interrogate their female suspect, Clare. Anne accuses Clare of killing her husband, [[ADeadlyAffair due to him having an affair]], and then launches into a long and very erotic description of said affair that leaves very few details to the imagination. Jack, meanwhile stands outside and listens to the interrogation, and grows increasingly ''agitated'' while listening to it. One of the assisant detectives then hands Jack some photo evidence, and Jack then enters the interrogation room:
-->'''Jack:''' ''(with a very noticable bulge in his pants)'' Something's up, and everyone in this room can see what it is!
* ''Series/That70sShow'' combined this trope with a clothed variant of BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty. Eric has an EroticDream about what sort of "gift" Donna might give him for his birthday, only to wake up to family yelling "Surprise!" and serving him breakfast in bed. His parents don't seem to notice how embarrassed he is, but his sister Laurie snarks "Nice tent" before following them out of the room.
* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': DJ is embarrassed when he first starts getting erections at school. Dan gives him advice which "fathers have been handing down to sons since the invention of the written word": put a book in front of it. Roseanne isn't satisfied with this and tells DJ a story about her own first period. [[ScreamingAtSquick This does not go well.]]
* ''Series/MyLeftNut'':
** During their first date, Rachael mistakes the huge bulge in Mick's pants as a GagPenis erection, but it's [[EntertaininglyWrong actually his swollen left testicle]].
** During the medical exam where he gets his swollen testicles checked, Mick gets extremely paranoid about having an erection in the middle of it, especially when one of the interns is a HospitalHottie. He has to resort to ThinkUnsexyThoughts to keep himself under control, but does it a little too well and [[TeenyWeenie ends up with shrinkage instead]].
* ''Series/Reboot2022'': Reed gets an erection while filming a scene in bed with his ex-girlfriend and costar Bree. It turns into a whole (comedic) HR incident where [[BitingTheHandHumor their parent company Disney]] has to step in.

-->"I should have worn sweat pants."[[/folder]]

* In Creator/{{Aristophanes}}' ''Theatre/{{Lysistrata}}'', the male characters wear hilariously large codpieces to show their, er, mounting frustration at their women [[LysistrataGambit refusing to sleep with them]].
* ''Theatre/{{Angels in America}}'': The Angel's approach makes men... turgid.

* Happens to Shiki waking up one morning in the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. His personal {{meido}} who comes to wake him up is either oblivious to why he's staying under his blanket or is deliberately trying to embarrass him. Hilarious, right? Then on Ciel's route, it becomes ''extremely unfunny'' when he can't get it down for a much more serious reason: [[spoiler:his body is no longer solely his own, and now Shiki has urges to ''kill people'' and ''gets off on it'']]. This requires... [[HGame you guessed it]]... a DeusSexMachina to resolve.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Edelweiss}} Eiden Fantasia'', Kazushi's friends want to help him [[BelligerentSexualTension resolve his sexual tension]] with Sakura. So what do they do? Well, obviously they trick him into taking a strange pill which gives him a raging boner, and then ''lock them in a storeroom for several hours''. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Monokid has a tendency of shouting about having a “rock-hard rager”— specifically for [[NightmareFetishist blood, guts, brains, and Monophanie puking.]]

* ''Webcomic/VenusEnvy'' has the main character Zoë, UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}}feminine teen [[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/index.php?id=19 trying to hide]] the huge erection she's having due to seeing both a hot new guy, and her school's football team running around shirtless.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'', Rabbit meets Tyr in the elevator after having had an intense [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Under-My-Skin-Interlude-5-Sweet-Dreams-381705442 Homoerotic Dream]] about him the night before. In the last panel, he looks away blushing, hands cupped over his groin.
* In an early strip of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Faye hugs Marten and decides to pretend he has a roll of quarters in his pocket.
* When Rayne for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'' encounters a particularly hot woman, he occasionally gets an erection big enough to cause him to [[GagPenis fall forward]].

* Visibly tented pants come up occasionally in ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'', but generally no attention is drawn to them. That said, there is an erection-based joke [[http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20091103 here.]]

* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'':
** Inverted in [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2989/ this comic]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wI0rWKpXEgw Dick Tucker]]: The Easily-Aroused-Super-Secret-Agent.

* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', this is PlayedForDrama when it happens to Rain who as a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}}feminine teen not only [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p357-Anatomy-376330721 finds this embarrassing but also dysphoria inducing]] which [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p358-Function-377054964 makes her depressed]].
* After the first on-screen battle in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', Hiro has to cover up, due to ClothingDamage; he uses a slab of concrete. Anvil arranges things so that he's pressed against Maxima, who has her own lesser clothing damage. [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-522-little-giant-miss-matchmaker/ She can still tell]], ''through the concrete''. (The Author Note does state that, while Maxima doesn't exactly ''try'' to get that reaction, she does find it a little flattering that she's still attractive enough for it to happen, even if occasionally.)
* ''Webcomic/TonyComics'' has Mike get one while he and Rhonda are asleep in bed together. It's implied that it was rubbing against her and she mistook it for the remote.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Phase mostly looks like a very pretty 14-year-old girl, but still has male genitals and thoughts. And he showers with the girls in the morning. Several of whom are superhumanly attractive. He spends a lot of time brushing his teeth every morning, in front of the most strategically placed mirror in the room.
** Later in the series, when his new (and not at all welcome) roommate, [[TheVamp Vamp]] shows up, the two start out the first morning by elbowing each other for room at the mirrors. Eventually Vamp (who is both intersexed and [[AnythingThatMoves pansexual]]) gives up, but gives not before throwing a TakeThat at Ayla: she stood and saluted him, then explained that she was waiting to see if he would 'run a flag up that pole'.
* http://www.awkwardboners.com
** Similarly, an oft-posted one-panel comic (source unknown) is a man looking down at his tented pants.
--->'''Man:''' Stop it, boner.\\
'''Man's Groin:''' No.
* [[http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-hide-an-unwanted-erection How to Hide an Unwanted Erection]]

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' Theater ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZUIySjzMI Superhero Tryouts]]'' features Awkward Boner Hug Man. Uncomfortably.
* WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9C5KOmnAc take on this]].
* Creator/CatherineZetaJones causes this in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.

* ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'': "Why doesn't she like me? It's like she couldn't even see my boner!
* ''Webcomic/{{Dolan}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENtqOypFAhE here]] and in many other cartoons.
* Played for comedic effect a few times in reviews from WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob. Evidently, his penis is around 10 inches long, and at one point he even taps it to show that he's gotten ''literally'' rock hard from the scene in question.
* Cody gets one in "[[WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan Bowser Junior's Summer School Part 3]]" when watching Toad's "Educational" Music Video (read: a rap accompanying a girl shaking her ass).
-->'''Cody:''' ''Nooooo...'' my [[UnusualEuphemism elephant]] feels funny...
* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': In the Japan Expo episode, Dr. Parker suffers from this while interviewing Andromalia ([[SuccubiAndIncubi a succubus]]). Hippolyte gets away with just a NoseBleed, but only by thinking about [[ThinkUnsexyThoughts lots of dead puppies]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''. While not shown to the viewer, Nightwing gets one while ChainedToABed and seeing Harley in her underwear. She most definitely notices it (his legs are spread and he's wearing superhero tights) and decides to take advantage.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''. In episode 1, Spanky Ham puts a lampshade on his p3n1s and it stays up. Also, it is physically shown later in the episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. In the episode "Sundays" at the 7:55 mark, Florence says the word "erotic" which is enough to give Reverend Putty an erection, which he soon covers up before walking into the church slowly.

* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' of all shows. In "Game of Groans", there is a Renaissance Fair, and Blythe's love interest Josh Sharp dresses as a tights-wearing lute player. While the two are talking, Josh looks down, gets embarrassed, and puts his lute over his crotch, while Blythe looks pleased with what she sees and speaks in a flirty tone.

Contrast TheLoinsSleepTonight. See also SomethingElseAlsoRises and BiggerIsBetterInBed. Compare OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, which has more erotic undertones than this trope. May be caused by a PottyEmergency, or vice versa. May result in a NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization, which itself leads to DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale or DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale, or simply jump to the latter without going through the former (which itself may or may not be implied). In some cases it's solved by ADateWithRosiePalms; in others, JizzedInMyPants may be the result.

Contrast TheLoinsSleepTonight. See also SomethingElseAlsoRises and BiggerIsBetterInBed. Compare OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, which has more erotic undertones than this trope. May be caused by a PottyEmergency, or vice versa. May result in a NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization, which itself leads to DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale or DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale, or simply jump to the latter without going through the former (which itself may or may not be implied). JizzedInMyPants may be the result.

* '''"Morning Wood":''' Also known by the PunnyName "Morning stick-ness". In real life, some males often wake up with an erection, particularly if warm. In fiction, any treatment of this inevitably degenerates into seriously off-color comedy. The correct medical term for this is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_penile_tumescence nocturnal penile tumescence]]. A surefire source of observational comedy is the scenario of waking up with an erection ''and having to urinate.''[[note]]For those not equipped for this experience, it's very h-- ''difficult'' to point in the right direction, OK?[[/note]]

** Liam is heavily {{implied|Trope}} to turn the tables on Milo when he [[https://www.trippingoveryou.com/comic/the-way-it-is asks]] if they want to have TheirFirstTime: Milo crosses his legs in StunnedSilence, and Liam looks at his lap, deliberately lies across it, and rubs himself against it.

* Frequently shows up in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, especially involving [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Militron's]] most infamous quote:

* In ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'', Decetive Jack Cloth allows his partner Anne Oldman to interrogate their female suspect, Clare. Anne accuses Clare of killing her husband, [[AFatalAffair due to him having an affair]], and then launches into a long and very erotic description of said affair that leaves very few details to the imagination. Jack, meanwhile stands outside and listens to the interrogation, and grows increasingly ''agitated'' while listening to it. One of the assisant detectives then hands Jack some photo evidence, and Jack then enters the interrogation room:

* In ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'', Decetive Jack Cloth allows his partner Anne Oldman to interrogate their female suspect, Clare. Anne accuses Clare of killing her husband, due to him having an affair, and then lauches into a long and very erotic description of said affair that leaves very few details to the imagination. Jack, meanwhile stands outside and listens to the interrogation, and grows increasingly ''agitated'' while listening to it. One of the assisant detectives then hands Jack some photo evidence, and Jack then enters the interrogation room:

* In the second episode of [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Team Four Star's]] version of ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', Jan Valentine's comment at watching [[GagBoobs Seras]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Victoria]] rip through [[NightOfTheLivingMooks his ghouls]] like paper with an [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence almost sexual]] SlasherSmile on her face? "Well, at least I'm going to die with a raging boner."

** In another episode, they go to get their hair cut from a buxom hairstylist. Just being near her breasts while she shampoos their hair gives them erections that last all day. She waits so long for them to go down that Todd shows up and decides to cut their hair himself so that he can take her out on a date.

* ''LightNovel/BottomTierCharacterTomozaki'': In Volume 9's fourth chapter after he gets home from an offline ''Atafami'' meetup. Tomozaki is already aroused since one of the female players, Rena, had been trying to seduce him the whole night, which he resisted because he has a girlfriend. When he gets home, he has a video call with said girlfriend and instantly gets turned on again: Thanks to his lust-filled state of mind, he starts viewing Fuuka in a sexual light for the first time as prior to this, all his thoughts about her had [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest stayed on the pure side]], but this time, he [[MaleGaze immediately notices her chest in her loose and unbuttoned pajamas]] and hears [[ArousedByTheirVoice the heat in her soft, pleading voice]], with the narrative even saying that the situation with his body was getting "a bit dicey, as a guy." At the end of the scene, he is actually happy he's able to think about Fuuka in a less-than-chaste manner.

* Happens to Bird's Nest of ''Manga/CopernicusBreathing'' when he unexpectedly runs into Leo, the juggler of his old circus troupe. It was implied earlier that Bird's Nest had a thing for Leo based on the small smiles he gave him, but this confirms it. Ends in ADateWithRosiePalms. Helps lead into one of Bird's Nest's {{Break the Cutie}} moments when [[spoiler: Leo messes up his juggling routine and drops 16 pins on his head, causing one of Bird's Nest's {{Freak Out}}s.]]

*** He also got one while [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]], but he heard Francine coming into the room but unable to calm himself in time, he just turns his back on her while remaining pantsless.

--->'''Brock Sampson''': [[ADateWithRosiePalms I gotta take care of something.]]

* ''Literature/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': [[ChristmasCake Chisato]] causes her nephew to get one during a scene at her apartment. She was wearing one of his school uniform shirts, while ''[[GoingCommando stark naked]]'' underneath and tells him to hold her tightly against himself. When he tries to be AboveTheInfluence, she proves ''he isn't'' by rubbing her backside against his crotch and faintly smirks upon feeling him get an erection.

* The second episode of ''Literature/{{Trapeze}}'' is about this, in the form of an erection that lasts for days. Eventually, it's revealed to have psychosomatic causes. ([[ArtisticLicenseBiology It is acknowledged that this kind of priapism is unrealistic]])
* In ''LightNovel/LadiesVersusButlers'', Sanae straddles main character Akiharu's lap in order to scrub his back (she apparently didn't think it through very well) and can't seem to work out what is poking her in the butt.

* Satou gets one twice in ''Anime/BenTo'' -- one in Episode 5 while Matsy takes care of him after [[spoiler:he gets the shit beaten out of him by the Monarch]] and another one in [[BeachEpisode Episode 7]] after seeing the Brunette's top fall off. [[spoiler: He manages to weaponize the latter by using it as a rudder.]] ItMakesSenseInContext.

* In ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'', this is of the second variety and played for humor. Tigre offhandedly mentions in Volume One that this is a bad thing to have when Teita wakes him up in the morning and his body is uncovered, and he later has another when sharing a bed with [[spoiler:Olga, the wandering Vanadis]], which she calmly points out and doesn't hold against him.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* In ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'', Triken constantly records, watches, and edits videos of sexy girls. He often comments that he'll need to hunch over for a while.

* ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'': Reg gets this occasionally, mostly triggered by seeing Riko undressed or touching something specially fluffy, much to his embarassment. Mostly [[PlayedForLaughs for comic purpose]], but this might be another hint that he's more human than he [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot seems]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoV9y_s00M OP]] begins with Tanukichi waking up for school with a 'morning wood'. When Ayame rings the doorbell, he inadvertently flashes her by answering the door in his boxers, causing her to scream and clock him with her schoolbag.
* ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': [[ChristmasCake Chisato]] causes her nephew to get one during a scene at her apartment. She was wearing one of his school uniform shirts, while ''[[GoingCommando stark naked]]'' underneath and tells him to hold her tightly against himself. When he tries to be AboveTheInfluence, she proves ''he isn't'' by rubbing her backside against his crotch and faintly smirks upon feeling him get an erection.

* In the London production of ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' the main character Jeremy gets this a couple times. First when his crush Christine puts his hand over her heart (and in the process something else)and then again when he gets sandwiched between hot girls Chloe and Brooke.