What’s the best way to deal with an erection at the swimming pool? I mean your own erection, not someone else’s.
Stay in the water, and prefably in the cooler zone 
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But what if you’re 20 yards away from the water when it happens?
You just gotta make a run for the water…
I can’t believe this happened to you Was the cause physical or mental?
Actually, it never has but I’ve often been struck with the fear that it might. It would have been bad enough if it had happened when I was younger but if it happened at the age I am now it would be a most unedifying spectacle. I don’t know if you have any idea of what a treacherous little creature half the population has to deal with.
Mags,
I have two treacherous creatures. 
What about you?
Let me ask you this: Does it last more than 4 hours?
I am surrounded by treacherous creatures… I am sure that nature causes them to have an expansion crisis often 
Like I said, it’s more a fear than an actuality. What is the significance of 4 hours?
I suppose I’m just a worrier. I daresay some would treat it as an opportunity rather than a crisis.
I’ve seen it happen to the young and old… the young get embarrassed, and the old just enjoy the moment
It’s a natural human response to stimuli, so who can blame the experiencer for that…? not I. Us females can get all hot under the collar when our senses are activated by a nice man, but our reaction is just a little less obvious than yours… 
That pops up here: youtu.be/y1ZqQ55T25c
The part where it goes beyond just embarrassment…
You’re right, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. One should learn to embrace ones erection - not literally, of course, that would be going a little too far, especially in a public place.
By the way: I’m not all that old, I mean I’m not at the walking stick stage quite yet. I like to think I’m still a little bit dangerous.
Visualise this in your mind and it will disappear quickly.
On the other hand if this kinda image oddly enough excites you even more I don’t know what to tell you…
You seen a camel swimming on the other side of the pool, didn’t you?
…it just depends on how you ‘handle’ yourself in the public domain… and I don’t mean literally here, either 
That’s the spirit
I can’t thank you enough, Mags, I think you’ve helped me regain enough confidence to enable me to start going swimming again. (If somebody sees something they don’t want to, it’s their problem)
I find when I pee, my erection goes down. So just start peeing.
Also, when you go to the pool to practice your stroke, they mean swimming stroke… just let go of it and use both hands to paddle forward.