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{{quote|"Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love!"|'''[[Woody Allen]]'''}}
 
Lots of people masturbate! It's nothing to be ashamed of. Or maybe it is. Either way, it's not something you'd bring up in polite conversation. However, it's given quite a different treatment in fiction. Unlike [[Nobody Poops]] or [[No Periods, Period]], where the function is simply not mentioned because it would be [[Nausea Fuel]], masturbation in fiction often fits into four different categories:
* It's aimed at or about teenagers (usually [[Played for Laughs]]) and the character is either a horny teenage boy, or another character, usually the parents, think that he's masturbating when he is very obviously ([[Innocent Innuendo|or sometimes not so obviously]]) ''not''.
* The character masturbating is [[Hollywood Dateless|sexually frustrated]], disturbed, perverted, or is a [[This Loser Is You|nerd/has no social life]].
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And now, I'd like to introduce you to my girlfriend [[Stealth Pun|Jill (Shakes hands)]].
 
And because this page wouldn't be complete without her: In Ankh-Morpork on [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]], Rosie Palm, the head of the [[Unusual Euphemism|Seamstresses']] [[Band of Brothels|Guild]], is named as a [[Shout -Out]] to this, derived from an old British euphemism, "Rosie Palms and her five lovely daughters".
 
FUN FACT: There is a Spanish actress known as Rossy de Palma. The more you know...
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* [[Breaking in Old Habits]] - A character receives a replacement hand and immediately uses it to masturbate.
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]] - A character is caught masturbating.
* [[IllI'll Be in My Bunk]] - A character who steps off-stage is humorously portrayed as leaving to masturbate.
* [[Jizzed in My Pants]] - Yeah, self explainable.
* [[Mistaken for Masturbating]] - Characters think someone who isn't masturbating is.
* [[Porn Stash]] - A character has a personal collection of pornography, and can usually be assumed to use it as an aid to masturbation.
* [[Poor MansMan's Porn]] - A character gets off to something not strictly intended to be used for that purpose.
* [[Self Abuse]] - Masturbation is portrayed as bad for you.
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* ''Skinny'' has a rather [[Squick|squicky]] scene where a young girl masturbates while in the tub.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[To Sail Beyond the Sunset (Literature)|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 ''[[PortnoysPortnoy's Complaint (Literature)|Portnoys Complaint]]''.
* In ''Anatomy Of A Boyfriend,'' the main character is unable to experience "the big O" with her high school sweetheart. So after they break up, her friend buys her a personal massager. It's not for her back.
 
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* 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 grandfather--concerned about the ecological impact of Drew taking five showers a day--decides they must have [[The Talk]].
* ''[[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.
* In the US version of ''[[Queer As Folk]]'', Ted has watched so many porno tapes that when a customer asks the cashier of the porno shop for a suggestion in which tape to rent, the cashier directs the customer to Ted.
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** [[Precision F-Strike|"I'm so fucked up..."]]
* One very disturbed individual in ''[[Shigurui]]'' (that is, more disturbed than all the other batshit characters) performed auto-fellatio while thinking about the dead young man he was out to avenge.
* ''[[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 further -- his porn obsession eventually leads him to build a massive customized rig just for pornography, complete with cavernous hard-drive, several monitors, high-fidelity headphones and a leather massage chair. ''In his parents' spare bedroom''. Needless to say, [[Caught With Your Pants Down|it does not end well]].
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* When [[Ciaphas Cain]] and his aid Jurgen get stuck on an escape pod for three weeks, Ciaphas spends time at sword practice and Jurgen locks himself in the cockpit and entertains himself in ways Ciaphas [[Brain Bleach|prefers not to muse over]]. Hint: Jurgen is an established connoisseur of porno slates.
* A subversion appears in a somewhat obscure POW narrative from WWII called ''Yanks Don't Cry''. When the camp doctor claims the mass outbreak of night blindness is being caused by masturbation, all of the men are horrified by the very suggestion that they could be masturbating. This may be because the author didn't want to admit to whacking off when the book was published in 1947, or have more to do with the prevailing attitudes towards masturbation at the time. At any rate, he mentions the burning envy every man felt for one inmate's ability to have lucid wet dreams whenever he wanted.
* ''[[A Farewell to Arms (Literature)|A Farewell to Arms]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]. The Italian officers in the mess tease the priest (who doesn't go to the brothel) by saying: "Priest every night, five against one!"
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* Mentioned on several occasions but (unlike the [[Unusual Euphemism|frakking]]) never actually shown in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''.
* This is briefly seen (with a [[Peek a Boo|wall as a censor bar]]) and interrupted in HBO's ''[[Generation Kill]]''.
** One of the episodes is named "Combat Jack" for the Marines' masturbating after the adrenaline rush of a firefight.
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* The ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] by [http://www.entropymax.com Entropy Max], has another [[Gender Bender|Gender Bendered]] example having a more intimate encounter with his new body in Yuuno. In his case, he was discovered in the act by [[The Stoic|Admiral Leti]]... [http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8426/nanorr42translated.png who proceeded to give him tips on how to masturbate as a female].
* [[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]]''
* Barry has a moment in [http://www.realmofatland.com/?p=50 this] ''[[Atland]]'' strip.
* Ben from ''[[Loserz]]'', as mentioned in [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/119 this strip].
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