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** Because its an activity which is basically harmless, not considered morally suspect by rational people but does not really add anything constructive to the world except a bit of pleasure to the participant. And if you do it too much, you go blind.
** Also your friends tend to abandon you if you do it around them, especially in public.
** As this troper understands it (correct me if I'm wrong here, but I've seen Americans use it this way before) wank seems to be the US equivalent of whinging or slang for something incredibly stupid, and because the majority of native English speakers - both on the net and in the world - are in North America it's more likely that non-native English speakers will see that usage of wank on the net. It's much easier to catch onto that meaning of wank, since it's more common to complain about someone else... well complaining or being stupid, than to be talking about ahem... [[A Date
** I live in America, and I've ''never'' heard the term "wank" used to mean anything else. Of ''course'' [[Fan Wank]] is a reference to [[A Date
** A quick and dirty explanation of what the word means in all non-[[A Date
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