Gnu, you must have led a charmed life! Course there's such a thing as a bad erection. WHen my ex was about 8, he was fooling around with a shampoo bottle in the bathtub one day. Getting to know it, in the biblical way, kinda. Well, not kinda -- he got to know it so well he couldn't get off get it off. It was absolutely excruciating! We could hear him from next door, howling away ... and the embarrassment that continued must have been excruciating also.

Lasted a lifetime, as a matter of fact.

He's middle aged now, still steers clear of the beauty parlors.