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* In porn or erotica, it can be used for sexual titillation for the viewers.
Of course, there's a pretty valid reason why "normal" masturbation isn't depicted very
Also note that male masturbation is used far more often than female... though that's not to say that female masturbation isn't given ''any'' attention in fiction (the "[[Rumpelstiltskin]]" tale supposedly had the [[Values Dissonance|original message]], "women who masturbate become infertile"). In older media, expect references to hairy palms and/or blindness, two widespread myths used to keep boys from masturbating, with keeping boys from masturbating being a major motive for [[Moral Guardians]] and their anti-porn crusades. ([[Blatant Lies|Of course, we have]] [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]].)
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* ''[[But I'm a Cheerleader]]'': While poking fun at the ridiculous notion of a camp for curing homosexuality, the movie shows a couple of girls releasing their sexual frustration. The girls are all given small electric prods to punish themselves when they have "impure" thoughts; one girl gets creative with hers. And a short scene of the main character rubbing herself through her nightgown almost got the film an NC-17 rating.
* The title character in ''Saint Ralph'' does this in a pool while looking at a naked woman's buttocks, without any hands. The water jet in the pool causes him to have an accident.
* ''[[Show Me Love|Fucking Åmål]]''
* In the action-comedy ''[[The Big Hit]]'', one of the assassins doesn't even seem to know what masturbation is; he explains that he has been sleeping with women since he first entered puberty, and never had to resort to gratifying himself. One of the other characters explains it to him, and from that point on in the movie, he's shown using a grip-strengthener, deciding between bottles of lotion, and at the end [[Brick Joke|there's a poster of him as "Customer of the Year" in the Adult Video section of a video store]].
* In ''[[Slackers]]'' there was a scene where a male character had to steal something from a female character's dorm while she wasn't there. After trying the door he was impatiently allowed in by the female character's (also female) roommate who was annoyed at having been interrupted masturbating. She continues to masturbate (quite enthusiastically) in the main room while he goes to the bedroom to find the [[MacGuffin|whatever it was]].
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=== Literature ===
* Deenie, in the [[Judy Blume]] book of the same name, mentions touching her "special place" and wondering if that's why she developed scoliosis. Blume said that a principal banned the book from his school library, saying [[Girls Need Role Models|he might've allowed it]] [[Double Standard|if the character were a boy
Similar passages in Blume's ''Then Again, Maybe I Won't'' have made the book a favorite target of censors. Or perhaps it's because of the boy protagonist's [[Naughty Birdwatching|nocturnal activities]].
* In ''[[Tales of the Otori]]'', sexuality in general is given generally pragmatic treatment: occasionally it's an important part of the plot, but for the most part it's just in the background of the characters' lives. As such, masturbation is mentioned, but only... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|off-handedly]].
* ''Skinny'' has a rather [[
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[To Sail Beyond the Sunset]]'', a wife, who has an open relationship with her husband, asks him over the phone if he's going to pick up a woman that night, and he admits he's too tired, it will just be "mother thumb and her four daughters."
* Apparently Jewish men aren't supposed to masturbate. That was ''[[Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoys Complaint]]''.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Fez, Eric and Kelso, mainly Fez, have mentioned their fondness for hands-on love. We don't know about Hyde, but he voiced his support for the
** Nina, Fez's co-worker and later girlfriend {{spoiler|whom he finally loses his virginity to}}, lampshades this by noticing that Fez's right hand is "stronger" than the other. Fez just says he's taken up fencing.
** It's also mentioned, that Donna does it too, but she "makes an evening of it", with music and candles. Hyde wonders whether Jackie masturbates also, but he reasons that she doesn't, because "she won't even go to a self-serve gas station."
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'''Hyde:''' I've known Fez for a long time. And if he thought he was alone, we need to turn this off ''right'' now. }}
* Sid from ''[[Skins]]'' is shown masturbating in the pilot episode, although it's debatable whether he falls into the 'nerdy loser' version of this trope. Knowing ''[[Skins]]'', there are probably definitely a million other *ahem* meetings with Rosie Palms within the show.
* In an episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy herself alludes to masturbating to a friend in 5th grade. "I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song 'I Touch Myself'". Which she pretends to have not known what it meant at the time. Considering Willow and Tara "doing spells"
In season 7 Andrew has locked himself in the bathroom to edit his documentary on Buffy.
{{quote|'''Anya:''' For God's sakes, Andrew. You've been in here for 30 minutes. What are you doing?
'''Andrew:''' Entertaining and educating.
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* Junior manages to "sprain" his penis from overuse on one episode of ''[[My Wife and Kids]]''.
* An episode of ''The Hughleys'' had D.L.'s wife remark that their son's been taking two to three showers a day now, and must be "the cleanest boy in the neighborhood." D.L. and their neighbor exchange knowing looks, and the neighbor replies "or the dirtiest." The two men then use a series of artful euphemisms to gently explain to the mother what's ''really'' going on. Hilarity ensues through the episode, as with every appearance, their son says or does something suggestive of his new hobby, like furiously pumping a bottle of mustard to wring out the last few drops.
* On ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'', Harvey Denton has a bizarre paranoia about walking into the living room to find his nephew, [[Only Sane Man|Benjamin]], shaking the hot, white coconuts from the tree of love, conducting himself in a solo symphony, or engaged in any other of a slew of [[Unusual Euphemism
* [[The Secret Life of the American Teenager|Just Say Me!]]
* In ''[[The Young Ones]]'', Rick has accidentally killed Neil. He buries the body in the garden, then can't sleep as his conscience reproaches him. He imagines himself on trial, then imagines some pretty girls in the courtroom pleading for him to be spared, then imagines them taking their clothes off, then he starts wanking off until his conscience yells at him to stop it.
* In ''[[Parenthood]]'' the
* ''[[Degrassi]]'' as it already tackled [[No Periods, Period]] back in Season 1, had a plot in Season 8 over self-gratification. Jane admits to Clare and Alli she does own a vibrator, acting in a [[Big Brother Mentor]] fashion that being interested in sexual gratification isn't a bad thing, and it's a good thing to seek it from yourself. Eventually Clare gets 'the talk' she wanted from her mother over these subjects. She called it awkward.
* In ''[[Black Books]]'', Fran's subplot in the episode "The Big Lockout" basically involves her having a wank while listening to the shipping forecast because she finds the voice of the guy who's delivering it irresistibly arousing.
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* ''[[Code Geass]]''. Nina Einstein, the local [[Shrinking Violet]], to a picture of her crush, using the edge of a table. Though she is quite [[Yandere]], she was perfectly sane at the time, and she doesn't actually have the massive [[Freak-Out]] until later, after {{spoiler|said crush's very unfortunate death}}. The fandom's reaction to the scene? [[Squick]], [[Memetic Mutation]], [[The Scrappy|Hate]].
** There's a sort-of running joke about her being interrupted by Nunnally: it's questionable who's luckier, [[Harmful to Minors|Nunnally because she's blind]] or [[Caught with Your Pants Down|Nina because Nunnally's blind.]] Otherwise, Nunnally would probably need [[Brain Bleach]] in the form of her brother [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Geassing her into forgetting it]].
* Satou from ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' is shown to reach for a tissue every now and then, and after discovering that [[The Internet Is for Porn|there's lolicon on the internet]], he is shown surrounded by empty tissue boxes. In the manga, this goes
* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', Héloise is shown masturbating while thinking about the Count and the poison ring he gave her. [[Squick]].
* ''[[Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito]]'' has one of the only scenes where this isn't played for [[Squick]], comedy, or both. Hazuki gets herself off twice thinking of her best friend/adoptive older sister Hatsumi, whom she is madly in love with. The second time is more subtle, but she does it ''on Hatsumi's bed''...
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* An episode of [[Rob Brydon]]'s comedy-drama series ''Human Remains'' has Rob playing a man whose compulsive masturbation apparently stems from the loss of his mother.
* There are constant jokes at Richard's expense in ''[[Bottom]]'' to show how pathetic he is (he is, in fact, a wanker). He even called his autobiography: "Richard Richard: I Did it My Way. On My Own. Quite a Lot. Now I've got a Sore Hand."
* There's an EXTREMELY uncomfortable example of female masturbation in season two ''[[Skins]]''. Maxxie's stalker Sketch breaks into his house, sneaks into his room, ''fondles and smells his underwear'', and proceeds to masturbate on his bed. When Maxxie comes home unexpectedly early, she quickly hides under his
* In a ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' episode, Frank mentions he has plans for Valentine's night. When asked with who, he replies "nobody".
* ''[[Firefly]]'': "I'll be in my bunk." It must be *ahem* hard for Jayne, being trapped on that ship with Inara, Kaylee, Zoe, and River, and not able to touch any of them.
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=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' has a gag where one of the Brit junkies starts "having an appointment with Dr. Hans Jerkov" in Madd Dogg's studio.
** It's a sort of running
* In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', one of the side effects of {{spoiler|Zouken's magical parasite worms}} on Sakura is increased sexual frustration, which she tries to cope with through masturbation. It doesn't work, but she [[Intimate Healing|moves on to Shirou]] [[Good People Have Good Sex|soon enough]]
Another is Shirou's erotic dream about Tohsaka in the same route. It's implied that this is something related to Rider and Sakura when we see Tohsaka's eyes, as they are the same as Rider's real ones. Also, he awakens with the same drained feeling as when Sakura has been leeching his magical energy. However, it's merely played as something to embarrass Shirou and never comes up again after talking to Tohsaka the next day.
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=== Web Comics ===
* In [[Questionable Content]], after a date in which [[Finagle's Law|everything went wrong]], Steve [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1556 gets off in Marten
** Then there's the one where Faye's new shrink suggests it as an outlet for sexual frustration. [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=808 It's no longer doing the job for Faye.]
* Honeybee Samuel's curse afflicting Candi in the [[Ciem Webcomic Series]] makes it so that masturbation is the only thing (never explicitly mentioned in the comics) that keeps Candi sane when she begins having [[Erotic Dreams]] about Denny. When she decides she doesn't like resorting to that, especially after she gets Donte back, she has actual sex with him regularly to avoid the need. The books intend to give a little more mention to her issue.
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* In ''Kinsey'', several people study a video of a woman masturbating to learn more about human sexuality.
* In ''[[Human Nature]]'', a man masturbates in front of another person, which is meant to show that he is unaware of society's taboos.
* Very brief scene in ''L.I.E.'', in which we see Howie in
* In [[Woody Allen]]'s 19th-Century Russian Lit parody ''[[Love and Death]]'', his character meets a gorgeous countess. After a room-wrecking bout of sex she compliments his abilities - he shrugs and says "Thanks...I practice a lot when I'm alone."
* In ''[[Annie Hall]]'', [[Woody Allen]]'s character Alvy and Annie are arguing and he focuses on a pretentious school course she's taking:
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** In "Look At The Princess", John is pointing Braca's gun at different parts of his own body. Including, at one point, his hand:
{{quote|'''John''': "My sex life! Kill my sex life!"}}
** In "Coup By Clam", Noranti decides to use the vibrating apparatus she's working with for something it was not originally intended for. This left D'Argo, who was linked to her at this point, in an awkward situation. An odd case of
* Chewbacca's dad Itchy is clearly cracking one off to Diahann Caroll during [[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]. [[Squick|While his grandson and daughter in law are in the other room]].
* A subplot of an episode of ''[[Black Books]]'' features Fran attempting to get off on the Shipping Forecast (no, not ''that'' kind of ''[[Shipping]]'') because she finds the announcer's voice irresistibly sexy.
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* Ska band Desorden Publico has a song, "Manuela", who is half [[Intercourse with You]], half this trope, down to the title (who is a transparent allusion to the way "Rosie Palms" is known in Spanish). To add controversy to the mix, part of the lyrics are taken from real letters that the Liberator Simon Bolivar sent to his lover Manuela Saenz.
* Mexican Hard Rock band Cuca also has a song called "Manuela". Translated loosely, the first verse has the singer bragging that because of his ...habit, he "is a being incapable of being manipulated, because he's self-sufficient, and even believes he's intelligent"
* There's an old Cuban song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnG5DVi4x0 "Manuela no me pelea"] ("Manuela doesn't fight with me"), about a man who lives a wonderful life because he can party late and his wife Manuela doesn't get mad and fight him. Anyone who doesn't get
* "Blister in the Sun", by Violent Femmes. ("Big Hands, I know you're the one...")
* "Pictures of Lily", by [[The Who]].
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* [[Elton John]]'s "Jamaica Jerk-Off".
** More subtly, "Tiny Dancer in my hand..."
* Subverted by the video for [[Jessica Simpson]]'s song ''A Public Affair'', of all places. When Jessica and her hot friends come up to the counter to get their roller skates, the attendant reaches into his pocket and starts digging in his pants. Jessica and her friends are [[Squick
* "The Big 'M'" by Lust Control
* "Depuis que tu n'es plus là" by the French comedian Max Boublil sounds like a romantic song at first but it really is about masturbation. He even says that he is going to marry his right hand.
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=== Mythology ===
* In [[Egyptian Mythology]], this was how the world was ''created'', by the god Atum masturbating the universe into existence.
** It's even [[
* Speaking of Mythology, guess what [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]], his brother Poseidon and his son Hermes did simultaneously onto a bull skin in order to create the hero Orion.
** Most versions say they urinated into it, actually. The name Orion means "the urinated one"
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** In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', there's a quarian on Ilium who mentions that she's had a neural stimulator (which "every responsible adult has") installed on her suit, capping off a background conversation about her breaking it off with her human boyfriend. Her turian friend (and probably the player) goes "[[Flat What|what]]" at this knowledge. Sadly, it's only ''then'' that they notice that you're listening in...
{{quote|'''Quarian:''' Ugh, excuse me human, private conversation?}}
** Tali's dossier in the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC hints ''very'' strongly at
* In an optional (and hysterical) scene, [[Metal Gear Solid|Snake]] can call Otacon on his CODEC while playing... with his "Solid Snake" during the Tanker Mission. Raiden can be indirectly accused of doing this later.
** Snake's response removes all doubt. "You were watching?!"
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** Belkar also made an onanistic reference when one of his party-mates was turned into a female by a cursed belt. Upon seeing that character restored to his proper form, he asked where the hot chick had gone off to; when told that 'she would never be coming back,' he responded with "[[Squick|that's okay, I can always preserve the memory of her for when I'm... alone]]." Of course, he's merely trying to [[Squick]] out Roy, who he knows was the girl during a moment of [[Gender Bender]].
** [[Half-Human Hybrid|Therkla]] tells [[Spoony Bard|Elan]] that he's "Grade-A, lock-the-bathroom-door, 'No, Ma, I'm just taking a long shower,' fantasy material."
* The ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] by [http://www.entropymax.com Entropy Max], has another [[Gender Bender
* [[Questionable Content]] has a full [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1378 story arc] about Dora helping Faye to tame her libido.
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'': quickly mentionned with Amber and her [[Homoerotic Dream]] of Nay, more relevant to the plot is Alex's habit; he borderlines [[Asexuality]], except for his masturbation habit, which apparently takes precious time he could use playing videogames. ''[[Single-Target Sexuality|And then he meets Tom]]''
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