be erect

They fear they’ll fail to be erect enough to have sex – unlike “real men” who are always ready for action.

She’d never seen a man’s penis and didn’t know what it meant for one to be erect, or why he was rubbing it.

The best Means and Remedies are, 1, as soon as ever this Symptom or Accident is manifest, to bleed the Patient very plentifully, as he lies down in his Bed and upon his Back, with his Head a little raised, and his Legs somewhat bent, so that his Knees may be erect.

It was made of iron, and so constructed that, however it might fall, one of its four sharp points should be erect.

The rider’s body should be erect but pliable, neither obeying too much the action of the horse, nor yet resisting it.