Self-Abuse: Difference between revisions

* Another Catholic school movie, ''[[Heaven Help Us]]'', features a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy and socially awkward.

* Referenced in ''[[American Pie|American Wedding]]''.

'''Michelle:''' ...aw, sweetie. You've gotta stop masturbating. It's melting your brain. }}

* In [[The Love Guru]], the protagonist is told by his severely crosseyed teacher that if he masturbates, it will make him crosseyed.

* This is discussed in the memoirs of the real-life [[Casanova]] when he makes friends with a Turkish Muslim and they compare attitudes toward sex in their respective religions/cultures. Casanova subscribes to the view that too much masturbation will make you sickly and weak (of course, his solution is to deal with horniness by sleeping with everything that moves and relying on the sacrament of confession to keep you out of hell) while Yusuf says that obviously "too much" of anything is bad by definition, but there's nothing wrong with masturbation per se, and that anyway it's a completely unenforceable rule. They also talk about male vs. female masturbation, with Casanova saying that girls don't run the same risk as boys because they're not losing a bodily fluid every time they do it.

* Used sarcastically in ''[[Auntie Mame]]'' when Patrick's roommate gets suspicious (what he's really doing at night is sneaking out to help Mame with a [[Zany Scheme]] she's suckered him into):

I gulped. "Well, gosh, Junior..." Then I saw what he meant. "Yeah, sure I am, Junior. Six or seven times a night. It'll drive me crazy and no nice girl will marry me and all my kids will be idiots. Be sure to tell your old man that for me next time you write." I snatched up my towel and stalked off to the showers. }}

 

* On ''[[Mad Men]]'', a ten- or eleven-year-old Sally experimentally masturbates to ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' while staying over at a friend's house. The friend's mother catches her, freaks out, takes her home, and tells her mother, who threatens to cut off her fingers if she ever does that again.

* In an episode of ''[[The Goodies]]'', Graeme is training rabbits in preparation of sending them into space.

'''Tim:''' ...Oh, I'm so sorry. }}

 

== Music ==

* "I'm a Wanker" by Ivor Biggun:

my knees have turned to water and I think I'm going blind." }}

 

== Radio ==

* In England, a common rumor is that it causes deafness. In a Christmas episode of ''Hello Cheeky'', it's mentioned that Denis King and his trio spend the winter hibernating under the couch with a copy of ''Playboy''. Thus:

'''John:''' ...Right. }}