Never had an embarrassment because I owned my adolescent surprise wood , but I also must give props to a Catholic nun . Somehow , other students noticed before me my discernable turgidness during a ten minute morning break outside the classroom . As I realized my groin was the subject of wide eyes , and then realized what was going on in my pants , most everyone had already filed back into the class . Clearly they made such a big deal that our teacher , a nun , was trying to settle the room down as I came in and she knew what it was about . Whatever , I would ' ve rathered I be the first to have to face this in our class since I didn ' t care . So , fine , I knew I could handle it without shame . But the nun did a great thing just in case . Without looking in any particular direction , she announced that we were reaching an age where boys bodies would begin doing things that had nothing to do with our thoughts , but just because we were maturing into young men and that ' s just what happens as some of us experience surges in hormones particularly in the morning she forced herself to say this in order to protect my feelings . She was beet red and miserable saying it , but somehow , in nun ' s language , made sure to make me sound like the stud of the class for going through this first . Stopped all the smirks and by the time we moved on , a couple girls shot me grins that started things stirring all over again . One of them even asked me out a couple weeks later , but that ' s another story . I should also mention that neither the nun nor I could stand each other and often butted heads before as well as after . That nun would have been a heroine to an insecure kid , and I imagine for other classes , she was . I just think she deserves mention here . Tldr was never embarrassed by it , but a nun who otherwise couldn ' t stand me forced herself to discreetly defend my wood to the class just in case . Edit grammar