It’s normal. Just keep composure and don’t be creepy about it.

Try not to lose sleep over it. As @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone said, don’t call attention to it and you’ll be fine. It’s even less weird than getting a boner in the middle of your physics presentation. Here, you at least have an obvious reason for the boner.

The solution is to examine why it makes you uncomfortable. Most likely irrational thoughts are at the root of this. If it’s an involuntary response of your body to external stimuli, then it’s ultimately self-harming and destructive to punish yourself for what you can’t help. Especially when you consider that as humans, we are animals, and animals have the same response.

at 19 not the way in high school but at over 50 I still have to make an effort to be looking at pretty women in the eyes.

If how people react to my asexuality is anything to go by, you would probably be seen as more normal than the alternative. I can’t speak for other women, but if you’re a courteous human being, I for one won’t judge you.

Are there things about us that do it for you more than others?

I usually just think of a generic chair and it goes away.

I’m 33 and it still happens.

Why exactly do you feel uncomfortable with an erection around them?

A huge amount of biological beings reproduce sexually, including humans. Women are generally sexual.

Almost everything we do as people is somehow connected to having sex. The urge to look for power evolved because it lead to better survival, and to more sex. Being cooperative/altruistic led to more sex. And so on, almost every one of our traits evolved so we can survive longer to have more sex.

But there’s also sexual violence and unwanted sexual advances. Thus sexuality is also discouraged by our society. I would guess that this in some way lead to you being uncomfortable?