TikTok doctor explains why you might wake up with 'morning bean'
If you've ever woken up feeling good (like, good good) then you might be wondering what the science is behind that. After all, if men wake up with 'morning wood' on the reg, is it possible for women to experience the same?
Well, wonder no more, as TikTok sensation Dr Karan Raj has unpacked the reasons why men get morning wood – waking up with an erection or, more scientifically, nocturnal penile tumescence – and revealed that women do too.
"Women can get boners and morning wood," Dr Raj said at the start of his TikTok, adding that this is sometimes referred to as 'morning bean' – so called because the clitoris is often nicknamed 'the bean'.
"In an average night, men turn their soft sausage into an Excalibur between three and five times, this is known as nocturnal penile tumescence," he went on, explaining that similarly women get nocturnal clitoral tumescence, which he describes as a "clitoral boner".
"The clitoris is filled with erectile tissue," he adds, pointing out that "in both men and women, parasympathetic activity is heightened during REM sleep, which means more blood flow to the crown jewels, more engorgement and swelling of 'bits'."
"As the night wears on, we get increasingly more REM sleep, including just before we wake up," Dr Raj says, which is why that morning wood is so pronounced in the, err, morning. However, things aren't quite the same for women. "As opposed to the penis, most of the clitoris is internal – it's about four inches long on average – so most of the morning bean is not visible."
The more you know, eh?
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