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A google search didn't turn up anything saying that some boys don't get erections before puberty. Why do you think this?
Yahoo answers isn't an especially reliable source, and it looked like most of the people asking were women, but I guess it's possible that some adult men forgot what it was like to be a kid.
As I said above, my theory is that Eliezer wrote that line to make fun of fanfiction.
Alternatively, Eliezer forgot what it was like to be a kid. That seems simpler.
Or we've just learned something about Eliezer's sexual development that I, for one, would rather not have known.
That is possible but it seems less likely. He's young and sex-positive, and there are other fanfiction references in the story as well, so it wouldn't be too surprising if he included another.