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Of course, there's a pretty valid reason why "normal" masturbation isn't depicted very often -- it's actually quite a mundane and meaningless thing (see Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs). There aren't many ways that masturbation could advance the plot of a story, and because it's generally a solitary activity, there usually won't be any character interaction involved.

Also note that male masturbation is used far more often than female (except in porn, for the above-mentioned reasons)... though that's not to say that female masturbation isn't given ''any'' attention in fiction (the "Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}" tale supposedly had the [[ValuesDissonance original message]], "women who masturbate become infertile"). In older media, expect [[SelfAbuse references to hairy palms and/or blindness]], two widespread myths used to keep boys from masturbating.

No relation to RedRightHand.

!!A SuperTrope to:

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* ADateWithRosiePalms/{{Literature}}
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!!Other examples:

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In the ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator'' comic book, a Marine left to guard the base is told there's some petroleum jelly in the supplies "in case he gets lonely".
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': One story ended with him having to honor an old bet he made with a classmate when he was younger. He had to give him a set of porn magazines. Wade apologized for some of the sticky pages and said they had "extra love".
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': The title character does this a lot, as does her best friend Ninjette. In Emp's case, it's because her super-suit massively enhances sensation and increases libido; she mentions that she never even bothers with "Mr. Shower Head" since she got it.
* One ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip gave us "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1543091-garfield Jon's Scariest Dates]]", with one of them being a sockpuppet. With lipstick. [[{{Squick}} Eeeewwww...]] Notably, this one actually was removed from the strip when it reappeared in ''Garfield's Guide to Everything'' -- apparently they could only [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar slip that one past once]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Horndog}}'': Issue 3 has a strip that reveals that Bob has the ability to perform oral sex on himself.
* Happens [[RuleOfThree three times]] in ''ComicBook/TheInternship'' where all three main leads do it once.
* Discussed in ''ComicBook/LevelUp''. When Dennis is in the bathroom trying to poop for a lab assignment (as he's studying to become a doctor), the angels have no idea what he's doing and one of them comments, "Perhaps it's time we discussed how to properly manage a young man's...needs."
* ''Lost Girls'':
** Dorothy masturbates for the first time while a tornado is passing through her farm and dangerously close to her house. According to her, she didn't know what she was doing, but thought she was going to die, so why not?
** Alice masturbates in her hotel room before having a conversation with her mirror.
** In Wendy's flashback, Literature/PeterPan masturbates as he watched her initiate The Lost Boys in sex. She later confessed to masturbating four times later that night before going to sleep.
** "The Captain" masturbates while watching Peter and Wendy have sex, spreading semen all over her back.
** During Alice's boarding school days, she would share a bath with her netball team captain and play with herself while soaking the other girl's back.
** On the island, Wendy takes opium and masturbates while Alice and Dorothy play sex games.
** While her husband talks about the situation with Germany, Wendy masturbates to his erotica, later pleasuring herself with a banana.
* ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'' makes much of Teddy's unfortunate choice to masturbate in the school bathroom. He was inevitably caught.
* During Creator/NeilGaiman's run on ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' in the early '90s, he was explicitly told by the editors that nobody masturbates in the DC Comics universe. In Gaiman's own words, "''actually, that explains a lot. That’s probably why the characters all dress in tight costumes and go around thumping the shit out of each other.''"
* The plot of the porn comic ''Small Favors'' opens with lesbian Annie being informed by an aspect of herself that she's exhausted her lifetime allotment of masturbation time. The photographic evidence supplied is a stack of photographs at least a foot tall... all of her masturbating at different times, all taken on ''the same day''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': My name is Spider Jerusalem... I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen out the window onto your hair and food.
* In "Werner fährt nach Kiel" in the German comic book ''ComicBook/{{Werner}} -- Oder was?'', the engine of the eponymous character's car explodes while he is on his way to Kiel. Fortunately, he has got one of those German automobile do-it-yourself automobile repair books whose title translates to "Now I help myself". Unfortunately, however, the only solution presented in the book is, "'''JERK OFF!''' Have fun!"
* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Mentioned several times, seeing as virtually the entire male population has died. One woman casually mentions the difficulty of finding replacement AA batteries for vibrators, and titular last man Yorick tells of one extensive 'session' where the government installed open-air showers outside a hotel he was staying in.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Lord Farquaad is lying in bed ordering a disgusted Magic Mirror to show him the princess... again! Farquaad peeks under the covers as though confirming some pleasant surprise. The scene seems intended to make him more creepy and villainous.
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[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
* Literature/TheBible: An older name for masturbation, "onanism", comes from a misinterpretation of a passage in the Hebrew/Christian [[http://biblebrowser.com/genesis/38-9.htm book of Genesis]], thus making the trope OlderThanDirt. The actual event mentioned was Onan having sex with his late brother's wife (this was practiced to keep the dead person's line from dying out). Not wanting to sire a child that would not have been considered his, he "spilled his seed" (pulled out before climax) on the ground instead, and was stricken for his disrespect.
* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, this was ''how the world was created'' in one story, by the god Atum masturbating the universe into existence. It's even {{squick}}ier in the R-Rated version of the myth, where Atum actually ejaculates into his mouth, whereupon he spits out his children Shu and Tefnut. No joke, Egyptian theologians debated for ''centuries'' whether the world's first female was Atum's hand or his mouth.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Hermes who, according to Diogenes, taught his son Pan how to do this while the latter was pining for the nymph Echo, to relieve his suffering (which must have been an awkward conversation). Pan, in turn, taught the habit to the shepherds. [[DoubleEntendre It gives "tending the flocks" a whole new meaning.]]
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Referenced in a zing by Wrestling/CMPunk in his [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-like commentary of ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} NXT'' Season 3 ([[MsFanservice the Rookie Divas season]]) during a promo challenge when one of the Divas talks about the old "view people in their underwear" public speaking trick.
--> '''CM Punk:''' You know, it's funny, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything I'm actually not wearing pants, and that's how I watch NXT every week.]]
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[[folder:Radio]]
* On ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' in a part of their ongoing series of "asking Karl questions to make him uncomfortable." They ask if he would, after [[ItMakesSenseInContext having his head transplanted onto another man's body]], he would be willing to masturbate with the other man's penis.
-->'''Karl:''' Well, they're not my hands then either.\\
'''Ricky:''' ''[riotous laughter]'' You're a fucking genius! So, what you're doing is watching ''someone else'' wank.
* Happens on a single occasion in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' (it's of the 'sexually frustrated') variety. The character, Beth Vanallen was subsequently [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With Her Pants Down]].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Regent Fokuf in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is regarded as a completely boneheaded puppet leader for the Realm for two reasons. One is that he rubber stamps anything that comes past his desk without a care for the contents. The other is that he spends the rest of the day getting off on the saucier passages in the Realm's religious documents.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/AvenueQ'': Just grab your dick and double-click for porn, porn, porn!
* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' starts out with Jeremy (a single teenage boy) trying to get off quickly before school. [[spoiler: He doesn't succeed.]] Jeremy doesn't seem too proud of it ("If I continue at this rate, the only thing I'll ever date / is my [[TheInternetIsForPorn Macbook Pro hard drive]]!") and when he gets his hands on a Squip, one of the first things it does is tell him to stop masturbating.
* ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'': Unsurprisingly has this as it's about sexual organs. Joey and Dick try to masturbate in the opening scene even! Later Vanessa and Flopsy imply they're about to.
* ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'': Mucho masturbation!
* In the musical ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'', it's mostly played for laughs when Hanschen is masturbating to a postcard of a girl, but he is also sexually disturbed as he dreams of raping her.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* When ordering a Riflemen squad to move something in ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'', the unit leader may reply to your order with: "Drop your dicks and move out!"
* ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'': during Peanut’s phone fling, she says that if three people having sex is a threesome, then she can be handsome. She then adds that the joke works better when her guy friends tell it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|Cursed Memories}}'':
** Tink mentions that old habits (taking long showers) die hard, even though he is a frog.
** Lovely Rod: Makes a nice present for your girlfriend.
* ''VideoGame/DontWetYourPants'': If you type in "fap", the game tells you that now is not the time for that.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', [[BoisterousBruiser Oghren]] remarks that he deals with "tension" by "polishing his sword" and asks Alistair if he does the same; when Alistair reacts with shocked embarrassment ("I think that's private!" and "You do it in the open, where other people can see you? That's disgusting!") Oghren pretends to have meant the comment innocently. Considering he has a similar conversation with Wynn about Alistair 'twirling his pike' (it turns out he was being serious), it's possible he actually wasn't making any implications.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Isabela notes that since she's usually the only female on her ship and doesn't typically let her crewmen touch her, she makes sure they get plenty of "alone time." If Hawke's sister Bethany is taken to the circle Isabela makes sure to send her plenty of erotic books to "help her through the nights".
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has several joke mods which turn ''[[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lusty_Argonian_Maid The Lusty Argonian Maid]]'' [[Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks books]] into skill books for the One-Handed skill (the text consists in a theater play made of sexual DoubleEntendre).
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has a gag where Maccer, one of the Brit junkies, starts "having an appointment with Dr. Hans Jerkov" in Madd Dogg's studio. It's a sort of running gag--the guy is apparently addicted to it.
** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', one of the character switch scenes for Trevor sees him aggressively jerking off over the toilet in his trailer and wiping his hand on the wall after he finishes. It's also possible to walk in on Amanda using a vibrating dildo on herself in her and Michael's bedroom.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': One of the rewards offered to Combine grunts appears to be some sort of 'alone time' - especially useful given the [[NoSexAllowed suppression field preventing natural sex]].
-->'''Radio operator:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF3k37j_wc4#t=3m14s Reminder:]] 100 sterilize credits qualifies [[ExpospeakGag non-mechanical reproduction simulation]].
* When Jak is challenged to beat a score in ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', Daxter replies that Jak "beats" things all the time.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect:''
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'':
*** There is a ''very'' subtle mention of this if a male Shepard decides to rebuff Ashley's advances toward the end of the game. She shrugs and says she'll head back to her own bunk to "find my own entertainment".
*** A specific dialog choice when asking Kaidan about his past will have Shepherd indirectly, but pretty obviously, ask if he and the other teenagers in biotics training coped with boredom, loneliness, and home-sickness with mutual masturbation; Alenko replies that it's not the sort of thing he does "lightly". That is a possible interpretation, though Occam's Razor would suggest Shepard thought they were hooking up and having rather than engaging in ''mutual masturbation''...
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
*** 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 "[[FlatWhat what]]" at this knowledge. Sadly, it's only ''then'' that they notice that you're listening in...
---->'''Quarian:''' Ugh, excuse me human, private conversation?
*** Tali's dossier in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC hints ''very'' strongly at this -- along with her lingering crush on Shepard. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMNMojfono All but confirmed]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'':
** In an optional (and hysterical) scene, Snake can call Otacon on his CODEC while playing... with his "Solid Snake" during the Tanker Mission. Snake's response removes all doubt.
--->'''Snake:''' You were watching?!
** Raiden can be indirectly accused of doing this later.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'':
** Typing in "masturbate" in the first three games and ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'' will cause the game to give you quips like "Larry, the whole idea was to stop doing that!" and "Aren't your palms hairy enough?"
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'': Using the lotion bottle together with the resort pamphlet while on the toilet in the bathroom results in Larry [[HaveANiceDeath literally dying of embarrassment]], as the entire cast of the game lines up outside the window to catch him in the act.
* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', pay attention to Travis after Henry wakes up from his dream fight with Mimmy. He's sitting in his chair jerking off, and freaks when Henry wakes up. It gets even funnier when you hear the Bizarre Jelly theme in the background.
* ''VideoGame/PhantomDoctrine:'' One of the agent code names that you find when reviewing captured intel is "snake choker." This takes on an extra meaning if the player is familiar with the euphemism "the one-eyed trouser snake."
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Scout (a young 20-something) has a throwable weapon called the Mad Milk, a jar of what is described in-game as a "non-milk substance". If that isn't enough of a clue, characters that get hit by Mad Milk give the same responses as when they're hit by [[UrineTrouble Jarate]].
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/ChopChopFruitSaladMysteryJamDokiDokiDatingSimTHingy'': Apple can walk in on Banana masturbating in the school bathroom. Given the protagonists are sentient fruit without hands, it's anybody's guess how this works. It ends with Banana squirting fruit juice (which bananas can't actually squirt).
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', there are at least two occasions where Sonia is heavily implied to have masturbated. She refers to it as something dirty, and her country mustn't know about it or else she can't become the queen anymore.
** Miu in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' jokes about this several times, insinuating that most of the boys are having "tug sessions" when nobody is looking, and even ''encourages'' this, giving Shuichi Saihara a box of fap material (of which at least two of the contents feature herself). She is also ''very'' open about when she does this.
* ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'':
** The protagonist has a moment near the beginning where he needs release (either from nudes of Kathy, or from “normal porn”).
** Amanda has a scene where the protagonist can find her masturbating in her bedroom.
* In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', the protagonist and Johanna each have these moments. They actually have a conversation in which Johanna admits to scheduling her “self-love sessions.”
* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has [[spoiler:Yuri -- whose obsession with the player has been cranked up to 11 by Monika in Act 2 -- admitting in a crazed state that she masturbates to both the player's poems and with the pen she stole from him. It's also suggested she cuts herself to add to her sexual stimulation.]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
** 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 moves on to Shirou 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.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Gnosia}}'': Apparently, this is why Sha-Ming doesn't show up to the first day of discussion in Loop 12.
* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Mostly used for comedy, but in general the novel doesn't really skirt around the fact that its female cast masturbates. At one point Amane sneaks into protagonist Yuuji's room trying to surprise him, when she doesn't find him, thinking he won't be back for some time, she starts to get it on in his bed, much to the annoyance of the meanwhile arrived Yuuji. In one route the girls actually discuss using Yuuji as masturbation material.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', Lilly does this while Hisao is blindfolded in their third h-scene.
* A bunch of examples in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'':
** Melody is often seen masturbating in the early chapters to deal with her frustration.
** Amy and Becca are seen doing the same in other scenes.
** Mentioned, but not shown, with MC.
* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' 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, with whom she is madly in love. The second time is more subtle, but she does it ''on Hatsumi's bed''...
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* In the ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'' episode "We Are Legend", Dusty has to choose between pleasuring himself in an airport restroom or spending time with Matt (literally the last living thing on Earth). [[spoiler: He ends up dragging the whole airport restroom down to the lobby]].
* The Spanish SuperHero spoof ''WebAnimation/CalicoElectronico'' has a RunningGag about every time MsFanservice character "La Ladrona" appears, the title character goes to the bathroom, where some... particular sounds... are covered by Calico singing (badly) opening themes of several old cartoons, the one from the Spanish dub of ''Anime/CaptainTsubasa'' being the most favored.
* The Flash series ''Pulp Phantom'' has the "Vincent and Mia" scene, but with Darth Maul and Queen Amidala instead. Maul is taking his time in the bathroom and talks into the mirror:
-->'''Maul:''' You're going to say "good night" and walk out the door. Door leads to ship, ship leads to home, home leads to jerking off... ''[grins]'' Jerking off leads to the Dark Side.
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
** When Tex returns as a ghost and mentions that she's been watching the Blue team, Tucker awkwardly asks if she had been watching ''all'' the time, while nervously glancing at a rock with the words: "Tucker's rock! Keep out!" painted on. Tex then says he ought to be ashamed of himself.
** In ''Recreation'', this exchange occurs during an argument:
--->'''Grif:''' You fucked a rock!\\
'''Tucker:''' [[YourMom Your sister's]] name is "a rock"?
** With the GenderBender episode in Season 14, the female Red Team mentions how their base has a shower head with multiple pulse settings. With the way Fem!Sarge talks about it, it's easy to see why they're so excited about it.
* From The ''WebAnimation/ProfessorBrothers'' song about JFK:
-->And if he shook your hand, you'd make love with it for hours.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] Masturbate to a firefighter calendar in the first episode ''[[WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow The Frollo Show]]'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext to put off a fire in his house]]. This episode is appropriately named ''Frollo Faps to a Firefighter's Calendar''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeD0G_jNj4 This fan video of Spongebob doing prank calls]] starts with Spongebob about to watch porn and using lube on his hand before the internet got cut out.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', after a date in which [[FinaglesLaw everything went wrong]], Steve [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1556 gets off in Marten's bathroom]].
** 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.]]
** There's also a full [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1378 story arc]] about Dora helping Faye to tame her libido.
** Marten at one point tells a story from his adolescence when his mother (a fetish model/dominatrix) cheerily informed him she'd put a bottle of lotion under the sink in his bathroom. When he asked her why, she told him he'd figure it out.
* Honeybee Samuel's curse afflicting Candi in the Webcomic/CiemWebcomicSeries makes it so that masturbation is the only thing (never explicitly mentioned in the comics) that keeps Candi sane when she begins having [[EroticDream 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.
* Several characters in ''Webcomic/MenageA3''.
** Unbeknownst to him, Gary's activity is used as "background music" for Matt and Dillon's lovemaking.
** Zii, watching all-male pornography while calling [=DiDi=]'s name. She does not notice the contradiction there.
* There's a weird example (which isn't actually masturbation) in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Elliot completely fails at fantasizing about women, which his girlfriend Sarah and her friend Susan discuss at length. Susan thinks he should be praised for his restraint, while Sarah thinks it isn't healthy.
-->'''Sarah:''' Don't you remember [[GenderBender what it's like being a teenage boy]]?\\
'''Susan:''' I try not to.
* In ''Webcomic/JetDream'', while Marlene claims a lack of interest in romance of any sort after [[GenderBender her sex change]], she also makes several veiled references to using "the science of vibration" or her "Jet Dream Vibrostick" to deal with her new feminine urges.
%%* ''Webcomic/PKComic'' directly references this trope in [[http://www.pk-comic.com/comic0016.html this comic]]
* The webcomic ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' had an entire storyline, "Mike's Left Hand", where the title character was a shameless, guiltless chronic masturbator. He even wrote books and taught classes on how to masturbate. His sister was later shown to be exactly the same way. Mike's roommate, unable to avoid him, steadily went insane (though he eventually recovered).
* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'':
** Wonderella shows [[http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/30/a-flash-of-despair/ here]] that she'd rather play "''Franchise/HelloKitty The Home Game if you know what I mean''" than save the city from monsters and stuff.
** And there's "[[http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/07/hardware-conflict/ Lil' Pinky]]" the robot spy. The places he has been... the wonders he has seen...
* In ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', the title character gets walked in on by her roommate during a "hands-on" cybersex session with her (as yet unseen) online boyfriend, "RC". (Whom Amy dubs "Sticky Fingers").
* In ''Webcomic/SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki'', due to the AttractiveBentGender of Yuuki to himself who turned into a girl, (s)he finds himself getting heated up by his own reflection in the bathroom mirror. After a brief self-{{Squick}} over this, he decides that a quick [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman "hand-check"]] couldn't hurt. [[http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda1/Issue5/Page3.html It swiftly turns not-so-quick.]]
-->'''Caption:''' An Hour Later.\\
'''Hermod''': Yuuki! I'm hungry. Where's the food?\\
'''Yuuki''' (off-screen): *PANT* D-Down *PANT* The hall, in the... Ki-Kitch... OHHHHHH ''' ''YESSS!!'' '''\\
'''Hermod''' (walking away): Not going near there for the rest of the night...
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Belkar recommend to a half-naked implied sex partner that, while he finished his sandwich(es), she should start a "solo adventure" until he could join the quest. This did not go over entirely well with the entire audience, or the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids presumed audience]].
** 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 GenderBender.
** [[HalfHumanHybrid Therkla]] tells [[SpoonyBard Elan]] that he's "Grade-A, lock-the-bathroom-door, 'No, Ma, I'm just taking a long shower,' fantasy material."
** Eugene Greenhilt doesn't miss an opportunity to show off his (utterly lack off) tact during [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1045.html a ghostly visit to Roy,]] while the latter is trying to awake the powers of his magic sword:
--->'''Eugene:''' You know, last time I interrupted you sitting alone in the dark trying to figure out how your sword works... your mother made me install a lock on bathroom door the next day.
* The ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' {{Fan Webcomic|s}} by [[http://www.entropymax.com Entropy Max]], has another {{Gender Bender}}ed example having a more intimate encounter with his new body in Yuuno. In his case, he was discovered in the act by [[TheStoic Admiral Leti]]... [[http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8426/nanorr42translated.png who proceeded to give him tips on how to masturbate as a female]].
* ''Webcomic/KhaosKomix'':
** Quickly mentioned with Amber and her HomoeroticDream of Nay, more relevant to the plot is Alex's habit; he borderlines UsefulNotes/{{asexuality}}, except for his masturbation habit, which apparently takes precious time he could use playing videogames. ''[[SingleTargetSexuality And then he meets Tom]]''.
** Jamie also has a scene of this nature about Charlie that's much more disturbing than sexy because of his ''massive'' guilt/sexuality issues.
%%* Barry has a moment in [[http://www.realmofatland.com/?p=50 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Atland}}'' strip.
%%* Ben from ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'', as mentioned in [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/119 this strip]].
%%* Graphically overheard in [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/me-time/ this]] ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' comic.
* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': One of Davan's previous girlfriends nearly broke up with him because she was disturbed that he masturbated. They compromised; he could still masturbate, but only if she was doing all the work.
* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'':
** It does this a lot with Hazel during the early part of the strip, emphasizing the fact that she hasn't had sex for a while.
** It also has a very open view on masturbation and treats it as normal behaviour. Several strips revolve around the female characters buying or using vibrators.
* In ''Webcomic/DearChildren'', this is presumably why Devin keeps inserting his penis into inappropriate objects, resulting in his half-sister Emma having to help him get loose. If he and Emma are telling the truth about this, that is.
* In ''Webcomic/FairestCruelest'' Princess Delilah has this while fantasizing about [[spoiler:Stealing The Queen for herself]]
* ''Webcomic/LivingWithHipsterGirlAndGamerGirl'': In [[https://i.pinimg.com/236x/7e/9e/cf/7e9ecf94f912f7234c8d7b045e8eda78--friendzone-funny-sarcastic.jpg this]] strip, Artur effortlessly lifts a gigantic weight from on top of a man. When the man asks him how he has so much strength in that arm, Artur immediately introduces him to Sophie, emphasizing that they’re ''just'' roommates.
* ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'': During a road trip gone awry, Ellen and Jamie have an intense conversation about the hot sex they could hypothetically have. (Hypothetically because a condition of Jamie's moving into Ellen's spare room was, in her words, “as far as you are concerned, I am a nun. An unattractive nun.”) When they get home, Jamie urges Ellen to take a shower while he takes a nap, by which he means they should each rub one out before addressing the fallout of that conversation. [[http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=755 But it is not to be.]]
* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge:'' The idea of touching herself is one of Joyce's many hangups, so Dorothy teaches her how to do the deed by sitting on an in-operation washing machine.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Mackenzie, the protagonist of ''Literature/TalesOfMU'', masturbates in her sleep due to her nature as a repressed [[HotAsHell half-demon]].
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': The use of the special Hydroflux showers, for the girls.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In one of Creator/BDylanHollis' cooking videos, a recipe called for a mixture to be stirred continuously.
-->If your hand gets tired, just keep going. I'm single, so I'm used to it.
* To quote the WebVideo/BrandonRogers [[https://youtu.be/kTeQSzHGWyw "Angry Office"]] sketch:
-->"The lotion is for your ''hands'' and ''face'', alright? I can ''hear it'' from my office."
* In ''WebVideo/LookAVlog'', Will is dragged out of the bathroom by Emily. When she asks what he was doing, he says, "Masturbating." Then goes back in.
* ''WebVideo/BeautifulAgony'': It's full of this trope. Only, like, two or three of the video clips on that site show sexual intercourse. And even then they don't really ''show'' it since all the videos are only from the neck up. The most you'd see of a second person would be mad snogging.
* Website/TheOnion News Network: "[[http://www.theonion.com/video/americans-observing-911-by-trying-not-to-masturbat,14366/ Americans Observing 9/11 By Trying Not to Masturbate]]"
* Website/{{Buzzfeed}} once did a video on the things girls do when they're home alone, which showed all sorts of funny/random/gross things someone might do without anyone else around. Later they made a follow-up video "What Guys Do When They're Home Alone", and let's just say it was ''a lot'' shorter.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywtnxDlfcTQ I Dream To Cream]]'', a parody of the song ''I Dreamed a Dream'' from Theatre/LesMiserables. The song is Jean Valjean's lamentation that this is what he must resort to when his date doesn't end well.
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* Mackenzie, the protagonist of ''Literature/TalesOfMU'', masturbates in her sleep due to her nature as a repressed HornyDevil.

Most people masturbate, although it's not something you'd bring up in polite conversation. However, it's given quite a different treatment in fiction. Unlike NobodyPoops or NoPeriodsPeriod (where the function is simply not mentioned because it would be NauseaFuel), masturbation in fiction often fits into a few different categories:

->''(Opening door)'' [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Oops! Sorry!]] When you said you were going on the computer for a while, I just assumed you'd be on Website/TVTropes!-

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* During Creator/NeilGaiman's run on ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' in the early '90s, he was explicitly told by the editors that nobody masturbates in the DC Comics universe. In Gaiman's own words, "''actually, that explains a lot. That’s probably why the characters all dress in tight costumes and go around thumping the shit out of each other.''"

->''(Opening door)'' [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Oops! Sorry!]] When you said you were going on the computer for a while, I just assumed you'd be on Wiki/TVTropes!-

* Happens [[RuleOfThree three times]] in ''ComicBook/TheInternship'' where all three main leads end up doing it once.

* When Jak is challenged to beat a score in ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', Daxter's reply is that Jak "beats" things all the time.

** Miu in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' jokes about this several times, insinuating that most of the boys are having "tug sessions" when nobody is looking, and even ''encourages'' this, giving Shuichi Saihara a box of fap material (of which at least two of the contents feature herself). She herself is also ''very'' open about when she does this.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has [[spoiler:Yuri -- whose obsession with the player has been cranked up to 11 by Monika at this point -- admitting in a crazed state that she masturbates to both the player's poems and with the pen she stole from him. It's also suggested she cuts herself to add to her sexual stimulation.]]

* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' 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, with whom she is madly in love with. The second time is more subtle, but she does it ''on Hatsumi's bed''...

* [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] Masturbate to a firefighter calendar in the first episode ''[[WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow The Frollo Show]]'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext to put off a fire in his house]]. This episode is appropriatly named ''Frollo Faps to a Firefighter's Calendar''.

* It's a single-sex setting such as a prison, boarding school, or military vessel, and the character is uninterested in a [[SituationalSexuality same-sex encounter]], so they take matters into their own... [[{{Pun}} hand]].

** Miu in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' jokes about this several times, insinuating that most of the boys are having "tug sessions" when nobody is looking, and even ''encourages'' this, giving Shuichi Saihara a box of fap material (of which two of the contents feature herself). She herself is also ''very'' open about when she does this.

** In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', there are at least two occasions where Sonia is heavily implied to have masturbated. She refers to it as something dirty and her country mustn't know about it or else she can't become the queen anymore.

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/TheDresdenDolls have explored this topic quite a bit:
** "Shores of California" says that "The girls are crying and the boys are masturbating" because guys want sex and girls want romance. The music video includes a hilarious scene where Amanda hands a tissue to a crying girl...then hands one to a boy.
** "First Orgasm" is about a lonely girl masturbating on a Thursday morning and eventually declaring, "I think I could last at least week without someone to hold me".
** "Coin-Operated Boy" is an ode to vibrators.
* From "Telepathy" by Swans: "I saw you through the window/Masturbating to the violence" (by the standards of M. Gira's work, this is a fairly tame example)
* "Homemade" by Sebadoh is about becoming addicted to masturbation due to depression and loneliness.
* "Touch of my Hand" by Music/BritneySpears is about appreciating self-love in the absence of one's partner.
* "Oops (Oh My)" by Tweet; she admires herself in the mirror while touching herself.
* Diva Destruction's "The Broken Ones" appears to be about this:
-->Pornography exposed\\
Innocence unrobed\\
Masturbate your emptiness\\
Fornicate your selfishness
* Music/{{Weezer}}'s "Why Bother" is about giving up on romantic relationships due to fear of heartbreak, and briefly mentions masturbation in this context:
-->But it's just sexual attraction\\
Not something real, so I'd rather keep whacking
* A lot of people thought the song "Holdin' My Own" by Music/TheDarkness was about masturbation, though the band themselves denied this.
* The song "Unglued" by Music/StoneTemplePilots is about masturbation.
** As is their song "Crackerman". ''Slightly'' more subtle than "Unglued" but still painfully obvious in the first stanza.
* The Australian band The Divinyls has a song titled "I Touch Myself"; you can guess what that implies.
* Ska band Desorden Publico has a song, "Manuela", who is half IntercourseWithYou, 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 [[https://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 this--whether or not they speak Spanish--is officially living under a rock.
* "Blister in the Sun", by Music/ViolentFemmes. ("Big Hands, I know you're the one...")
* Never outright stated but strongly implied in "Pictures of Lily", by Music/TheWho. The singer is a young man who has insomnia. When his father gives him the titular pictures of Lily, he feels better and is able to sleep.
* "Rosie" by Music/JacksonBrowne; it's pretty blatant in the chorus. "Rosie, you wear my ring" and "I got to hand it to me" indeed...
* "Get a Grip" by Semisonic. The music video toys with it by using a lot of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very suggestively framed shots of people exercising at a gym]].
* "Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones.
* "Thinking About You" by Music/{{Radiohead}}.
* "Orgasm Addict" by the Music/{{Buzzcocks}}.
** Not as obvious, "Fiction Romance" also by the Buzzcocks. Giveaway phrases include references to "magazine pages," and that the fantasized lover(s) "can be yours just by taking hold."
* "Vibrator Dependent" by Music/MojoNixon.
* "Praying Hands" by Music/{{Devo}}.
* "Muscle of Love" by Music/AliceCooper.
* Music/ChuckBerry's "My Ding-a-Ling" blends this trope with a bucketload of DoubleEntendre.
* Music/BillyJoel's "Sometimes a Fantasy" (in the context of phone sex)
** Also mentioned in "Captain Jack." "Your sister's gone out, she's on a date/ You just sit at home and masturbate."
* Music/ToriAmos' "Icicle" is about doing this... in church.
** To be more specific, it's about her getting off to Jesus while her father is singing prayers downstairs.
* Reverend Horton Heat's "One Time for Me" is about getting off on watching somebody ''else'' doing this.
* "She Bop" by Music/CyndiLauper. She thought she'd written this one cleverly enough that young people wouldn't understand it till they got older, but the cat was out of the bag pretty quickly.
* "Touching Me Touching You" by Music/{{Squeeze}}. "I'm always touching myself/ I've got nothing else to do/ And when I'm touching myself/ I'm always thinking about you...."
* "Fingers" and "U + Ur Hand" by Music/{{Pink}}, with the latter song suggesting that jerks in the bar will have to settle for this because she's not interested.
* "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" by Music/BarenakedLadies.
* "Later Tonight" by the Music/PetShopBoys is subtler than some examples here but still unambiguous.
* "Imaginary Lover" by the Atlanta Rhythm Section. One of the rare examples of a song that's unambiguously about masturbation and managed to still become a US Top 10 hit (Yes, it was TheSeventies)
* From Music/WeirdAlYankovic's[[labelnote:*]][[HehHehYouSaidX Heh heh... "yank"]][[/labelnote]] "One More Minute":
-->I guess I might seem kinda bitter\\
You got me feelin' down in the dumps\\
'Cause I'm stranded all alone at the Gas Station of Love\\
And I have to use the self-service pumps!
* Implied at the end of Music/BigStar's "Back of a Car".
* Kunt and the Gang's appropriately-titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbApLud2Po Have a Wank]]".
* Masturbation is pretty much the signature subject of British comedian Ivor Biggun, who has at LEAST half a dozen songs about it such as "I'm a Wanker", "The Wanker's Rock and Roll", and "Wanking Your Blues Away".
-->Oh Mrs. Palm\\
and your five lovely daughters!\\
Thank you for having me\\
and being oh so kind,\\
I've got pains in my arms,\\
and my donkey's growing shorter;\\
My knees have turnt to water,\\
And I think im going blind!\\
* Music/GreenDay's "Longview". "Bite my lip and close my eyes, take me away to paradise...", "When masturbation's lost its fun...", "some say quit or I'll go blind", and "I'm so damn bored I'm going blind", in reference to the myth.
** Then there's "All By Myself", the HiddenTrack on that same album. "I was all by myself/there was nobody looking/I was thinking of you."
** A song from the Green Day side-project The Network is called "Right Hand-A-Rama" and is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what you think it's about.]]
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s song "Secret" is clearly about this: "Happiness lies in your own ''hand''..."
* Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Shake the Rattlesnake".
* "Zwitter" by Rammstein is about a hermaphrodite who is in love with hirself, and even claims to be able to make hirself conceive...
* "Menage a Moi" by Chick [=McGee=] of [[http://www.bobandtom.com The Bob And Tom Show]].
* Music/{{Tatu}}'s song "Prostie Dvijenia" ("Simple Moves"). It's all about masturbation. Check out the music video sometime.
* Music/JonLajoie's "Alone in the Universe" is about nothing but masturbation.
* "My [[PunnyName Wena]]" by Music/BowlingForSoup: "She's only happy when I'm holding her tight/Oh, my Wena/Take a look at my Wena"
* Music/{{Jellyfish}}'s "He's My Best Friend", where lots of double entendre makes it clear that the "friend" in question is actually the narrator's penis (a couple of the more blatant examples being "my hand's a five leaf clover /it's Palm Sunday over and over" and "I pick him up when he's feeling down / I guess he's always been hanging around"). Funnily enough, [[LyricalDissonance the music is innocent-sounding enough]] that the song [[IsntItIronic was included on an official [=iTunes=] "Friendship Songs Mix"]].
* Mindless Self Indulgence's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyKDNp9uRSY Masturbates]]. The name says it all, really.
* "Boy" by Book of Love": "I sit at home at night, and play with my toys"
* Captain Jack - "Little Boy".
* "Guys Eyes" by Animal Collective appears to be about masturbating so as not to look like all the narrator wants his girlfriend for is fox sex. See lines: "I really want to do just what my body wants to, I really want to show to my girl that I want her", "I want to do what my body needs to, I want to show to my girl that I need her", and "I started using my mind, And I used my hands, It was what I want to do"
* "Part of Me" by Music/{{Tool}}.
** "Thinking of You" by Music/APerfectCircle.
* The Music/{{Gorillaz}} song "DARE" has been interpreted this way, although (like many Gorillaz songs) it's unclear whether it was actually meant to mean anything in particular.
* Music/TheDecemberists' "[=BillyLiar=]". "[[UnusualEuphemism Decked by a Japanese geisha with a garland of pearls]]", indeed.
* BawdySong "Masturbation", to the tune of "Alouette":
-->Masturbation, we like masturbation!
-->Masturbation, we like to masturbate!
-->(leader) How I love to choke my chicken!
-->(response) How he loves to choke his chicken!
-->(l) Choke my chicken!
-->(r) Choke his chicken!
-->(l) Masturbate!
-->(r) Masturbate!
-->[Chorus]
-->continue with "spank my monkey", "bash the bishop", "beat my meat", "jerk the Turk" et cetera ad nauseam.
* "Never Enough" by Music/TheCure.
* Subverted with "Jizz in my Pants" by Music/TheLonelyIsland.
* [[Music/PurpleRainAlbum "Darling Nikki"]] by Music/{{Prince}} from the movie ''Film/PurpleRain'' begins out with "I knew a girl named Nikki, I guess you could say she was a sex fiend / I met her in a hotel lobby, masturbating with a magazine." This was the song that prompted Tipper Gore to establish the [[MoralGuardians PMRC]] and require the Explicit Advisory sticker on raunchy recordings.
* Music/EltonJohn:
** "Jamaica Jerk-Off".
** More subtly, "Tiny Dancer in my hand..."
* Subverted by the video for Music/JessicaSimpson'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}}ed out until the attendant pulls out his camera, which is what he was actually reaching for. The girls are both relieved and happy to pose for pictures.
* "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.
* "Lonely Is The Night" by Music/BillySquier
** His song, "The Stroke" was believed to be about masturbation, until the singer revealed it's about being on the receiving end of a handjob. Which is close, but no cigar.
*** No, it's about [[MusicIsPolitics the process of getting a record deal]].
* "Dancing With Myself" by Music/BillyIdol. " Well there's nothing to lose, and there's nothing to prove, I'll be dancing with myself"
** Billy has said MANY TIMES that it's about Japanese dance clubs. And yet no one really listens...
* Mr. Bungle has "Girls Of Porn", a funky song about the world of porn and all it's crazy little genres, obviously PlayedForLaughs. Then they have the song "Dead Goon" a song about a loner kid who dies while participating in a round of auto-erotic asphyxiation in his mother's panties and the family walking.
* "Pink Thing" by Music/{{XTC}} ("When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high"). WordOfGod is that it's about a father's love for a newborn baby, but it's so full of innuendo that there's no way Andy Partridge didn't have a double meaning in mind.
* "You're Makin' Me High" by Toni Braxton is mostly IntercourseWithYou, but the song begins with "I'll always think of you inside of my private thoughts/I can imagine you touching my private parts/With just the thought of you/I can't help but touch myself." It doesn't help that she starts moaning in the background towards the end of the song.
* Music/TheLonelyIsland's "Watch Me Do Me" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* Music/BrunoMars' "The Lazy Song" has a line where he says he can "put my hand in my pants" because "nobody will tell me I can't."
* Music/ChristinaAguilera has her ode to all sorts of self-love in "Vanity".
--->every time I look at me/I turn myself on, yeah/I turn myself on, yeah
---> Can't love no one else/Love yourself
** Explicitly subverted again years later in the single "Your Body" from her following album Lotus
--->We're moving faster then slow/If you don't where to go/I'll finish off on my own, oh-oh, yeah/Hey boy!
* Music/DaYoopers' "Da Couch Dat Burps" is preceded by a skit in which the singer (Sandy Kempa) says, "Sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand."
** Much later, on ''We're Still Rockin''', they did a punk-styled song about how "[[UnusualEuphemism shuckin' da cob]]" made the singer a man, despite his parents telling him it'd make him blind.
* W.A.S.P. - Animal (Fuck like a beast).
* "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is rumored to be about this, if only because [[WordSaladLyrics it's anyone's guess what it's actually about]]. The lyrics describe a guy who's lonely with only a photo of his lover, which is giving him funny feelings. According to this rumor, the title refers to how squinting while having an orgasm makes an Anglo person's eyes look East Asian.
* "Black on Black" by Dalbello contains an indirect reference: "Turning water into wine, touch yourself and you go blind..."
* "America" by Gianna Nannini. Which is [[NonIndicativeTitle not]] about America. But who knows, the text being in Italian?
* It's strongly implied that some porn found in the trash is the "woman" that the CasanovaWannabe protagonist of Music/RedVox's "There She Goes" ends up settling for after his multiple failures in dating.
-->Got a new woman\\
Found her in a trash can\\
Think this is the woman, baby, I really do\\
Better tell my hand
* "Orgy for One" by NinjaSexParty.
-->It's not just masturbation, it's an orgy for one\\
It's a fucking celebration, it's an orgy for one
* [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]] in the comedy song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggUSbgRUhc "Wish I Had a Portal Gun"]] by [[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]] / Website/CollegeHumor, which reels off suggestions about what one could do with the gun from ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'', including creating a [[AlienGeometries spacial relationship]] where your head and upper body are directly facing your groin...so you can dress and undress without needing to look down or bend over! [[spoiler:"Also I'd suck my own diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!"]]
* "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day could be this disguised as a DivineDate song.
* Music/{{Lizzo}} has "Scuse Me" which even has a mirror near the protagonist for good measure.
* Music/FleetwoodMac during the Peter Green era had "Rattlesnake Shake."
-->I know this guy\\
His name is Mick\\
And he don't care\\
If he ain't got no chick.
* Implied in the music video for ''Music/WilburSoot'''s "Your New Boyfriend". During the line "I think about him a lot as well", Wilbur very slowly pulls a tissue out of a box, then turns to [[BlankStare stare directly into the camera]].
* John Prine's song ''Donald and Lydia'' is supposed to be about this. It describes Lydia, an overweight woman who works in a penny arcade and reads romance novels in her room, and Donald, a lonely soldier who spends a lot of time in the latrine. Then we get this verse:
-->Hot love, cold love, no love at all
-->A portrait of guilt is hung on the wall
-->Nothing is wrong, nothing is right
-->Donald and Lydia made love that night...love!
-->They made love in the mountains, they made love in the streams
-->They made love in the valleys, they made love in their dreams
-->But when they was finished, there was nothing to say
-->'Cause mostly they made love from ten miles away.
* There's a line in Music/DavidBowie's "Time", where time itself "falls [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish wanking]] to the floor".

[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* Literature/TheBible: An older name for masturbation, ''onanism'', comes from a misinterpretation of a passage in the Hebrew/Christian [[http://biblebrowser.com/genesis/38-9.htm book of Genesis]], thus making the trope OlderThanDirt. The actual event mentioned was Onan having sex with his late brother's wife (this was practiced to keep the dead person's line from dying out). Not wanting to sire a child that would not have been considered his, he "spilled his seed" (pulled out before climax) on the ground instead, and was stricken for his disrespect.
* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, this was how the world was ''created'' in one story, by the god Atum masturbating the universe into existence. It's even {{squick}}ier in the R-Rated version of the myth, where Atum actually ejaculates into his mouth, whereupon he spits out his children Shu and Tefnut. No joke, Egyptian theologians debated for ''centuries'' whether the world's first female was Atum's hand or his mouth.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Hermes who, according to Diogenes, taught his son Pan how to do this while the latter was pining for the nymph Echo, to relieve his suffering (which must have been an awkward conversation). Pan, in turn, taught the habit to the shepherds. [[DoubleEntendre It gives "tending the flocks" a whole new meaning.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' has ''lots'' of masturbation jokes, mostly from Beavis, particularly in TheMovie.
** It becomes a significant plot point: The Feds can't find Beavis because he's off whackin' in Tom Anderson's trailer.
*** Said feds address it directly as well:
--->'''Agent Bork''': Chief, you know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?
--->'''Agent Fleming''': Bork, you're a Federal Agent. You represent the United States government. [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith Never end a sentence with a preposition]]!
--->'''Agent Bork''': Oh, uh... You know that guy in whose camper they... I mean, that guy off in whose camper they were whacking?
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Numerous masturbation jokes abound. A few examples:
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E17BrianWallowsAndPetersSwallows Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows]]", [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mayor West]] is shown trying to marry his right hand (which his left [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace tries to object to]]).
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E20WastedTalent Wasted Talent]]", there's a flashback where Peter as a kid asks a tour guide in a museum: "Why did all the dinosaurs die out?" He responds: "Because you touch yourself at night."
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E14PTV PTV]]" has a send-up of ''Series/TheWaltons'' closing tag, where various family members reflect on the episode's events and say their good nights. Here, John Boy doesn't respond initially, and then shouts out in frustration, "Dammit, can't a guy masturbate in this house?!"
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal Barely Legal]]", when Meg becomes obsessed with Brian:
--->'''Meg:''' I'm going to the mall later, maybe you can come and help me pick out some underwear.\\
'''Brian:''' Uh, I don't think that's going to be a possibility, uh, I have plans, with Chris! Chris and I have plans this afternoon!\\
'''Chris:''' We do?\\
'''Brian:''' Yeah, yeah! We're doing that thing, we're doing what you usually do on a Thursday afternoon!\\
'''Chris:''' Masturbate?\\
'''Brian:''' That's it, [[EmbarrassingCoverUp that's what we're going to do together]].\\
'''Chris:''' Well, maybe back to back, but I gotta tell you, I'm not 100% on this.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E4And5StewieKillsLoisAndLoisKillsStewie Stewie Kils Lois]]", Meg brings a pack of hot dogs to her room, and says: "I'm gonna pretend you're the ''New York Knicks!''" Peter later mentions that he has to buy hot dogs because "we keep running out for some reason".
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E21PartialTermsOfEndearment Partial Terms of Endearment]]", when Peter thinks he's going to be in a threesome, Meg mentions that she had a "onesome" once.
** Chris is also portrayed to masturbate more often than an average teenager would, especially in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E11GermanGuy German Guy]]" where Lois shows the family Chris' blanket is completely hard as a rock and then shatters to pieces when Lois drops it because of Chris doing nothing but masturbating in his room all day and Lois believes the washing machine got pregnant somehow. When Chris comes downstairs to see everyone, his own clothes shatter to pieces the same way as his blanket did.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E4SavingPrivateBrian Saving Private Brian]]", when Brian and Stewie join the army, they're talking at night, and one guy yells, "You know, you guys are really making it hard to masturbate!" prompting another guy to yell, "Not for me!"
** In “[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E14UnderagePeter Underage Peter]]”, there’s a CutawayGag of an advertisement for the “yanket”, a blanket designed to hide the fact that you’re masturbating. At the end of the episode, we see Chris using it in the living room; Stewie reveals that he had to put the yanket over Chris because he was doing it out in the open.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** The whole plot in the episode "A Smith In Hand". Stan tries to teach Steve to sublimate the "urge" with arts and crafts as he does. However, Stan [[GroinAttack gets hurt]] and the doctor prescribes an ointment; in the process of applying it, he accidentally masturbates and, realizing for the first time in his life how good it feels, gets addicted.
** Another mention in "The People vs. Martin Sugar" when Jeff is forced to quit smoking pot cited it's for his medical condition. Jeff hides in different places and gets caught by Francine.
** In another episode where Steve finally gets a date with a hot girl, he tells her he needs to "check his schedule", so he opens up a day planner and we see that his plans for every night say, "Whack it".
** Similar to Chris Griffin, Steve is also portrayed as masturbating excessively, to the point of it being a running gag. One episode even has him suddenly bulking up and gaining a deeper voice after stopping it cold turkey.
* This trope directly leads to the main plot of the episode "Going Downklok" in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': the band members masturbate so much due to having no fans to sleep with that they develop carpal tunnel syndrome, and they have to deal with trying to release their sexual tension ''without'' masturbation, ranging from exercise to attempting to get into the pants of their female producer. [[spoiler:Nathan succeeding in seducing Abigail was the final straw: after a series of bad decisions on Nathan's part, him getting the girl Pickles wanted caused Pickles to quit the band.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'':
** One episode deals with Reverend Putty's private shame over his masturbation. And then his ire when he found out a StalkerWithATestTube used his...ahem, tissues to impregnate herself with [[spoiler: Stephanie]].
** ''God's Chef'' runs with it to disturbing extremes. [[spoiler:In order to masturbate and still go to heaven, Orel concludes he must become 'God's Chef' and inject ladies with his 'delicious glaze'. He ends up impregnating the entire neighborhood.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
** Rusty rents ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas'' and invites Brock to watch it with him. When Brock demurs, Rusty admits the movie was "meant to be watched ''solo a mano''." He's also deaf to warnings that the movie doesn't live up to its title.
** 24 is seen perusing porn several times due to the low chance of meeting women in his henching job.
--->'''24:''' Don't knock or anything! It's not like I live with 80 guys and no women, so there is ''no chance that I am masturbating!''
** This is revealed to be the reason that Rusty invented the "[[LotusEaterMachine joy can]]". And the reason that it locks from the inside.
** "[[MistakenForMasturbating I'm practicing being a boyfriend, Pop!]]" Actually, he was just kissing his hand to practice kissing.
** The Monarch is at a monitor watching Dr. Girlfriend seduce Rusty and absently starts fondling himself, breaking off abruptly when a henchman wanders through for a glass of juice.
** In the "Trial of the Monarch" episode, in a flashback, Dr. Girlfriend is handed her old superhero costume by her old boyfriend (Phantom Limb). She remarks that there are now "hard chunks" in the fabric, which Limb claims are tears. Monarch naturally decries this, claiming that Limb was "just pounding his invisible meat" into it, at which point he's cut off by Dr. Venture, who doesn't want the boys hearing about that. But then Hank protests it's okay because he's seen Dean do it, at which point Brock quickly gets the boys to another topic. The judge didn't want to hear it either:
--->'''Judge:''' I want that comment stricken from the record ''[[BrainBleach and my mind.]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Creator/BobClampett's "WesternAnimation/AnItchInTime" has a scene of a dog scooting around on his hindquarters after being bitten by a flea; at one point, he pauses to tell the audience, "Hey, I'd better cut this out, I may get to like it!" The over-the-top line had been included for the studio's annual in-house gag reel, with the expectation that the [[MediaWatchdog Hays Office]] would [[CensorDecoy order it excised]] (and overlook the lesser jokes they actually wanted to keep) before the short was released to the public; amazingly, it was allowed to go out intact.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has Foxxy show Wooldoor, in elaborate detail, how she masturbates in "Clum Babies". Because it's about as sexual as a potato singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep", ''Wooldoor'' masturbating is shown multiple times. It involves breaking his own finger, among other things. Go figure.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' when Margo Sherman has to attend a debutante's ball, she wears a white dress symbolizing her virginity -- except (as she points out) the ''gloves'', which are hussy white.
-->'''Dressmaker:''' We dressmakers have a very strict code, so I need to know. Do you deserve to wear virginal white? Because if you don't, you'll have to wear an off white, what we call a "hussy white". So which will it be? White white?\\
'''Margo Sherman:''' Yes... um, except for the gloves.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** An episode has Zelda refuse to have sex with Link after saving her from Gannon. So Link says to his hand, "Then I will save you, my princess."
** Also, You won't believe you're eating Ron Jeremy's Butter!
** As well as, [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/mumm-ra-is-mrs-mumbletipeg.html Mrs. Doubtfire meets Thundercats]], which ended with the CaughtWithYourPantsDown bit.
** When you wake up in the morning, what's the first thing that you see? It's your morning wood! "Hello, I'm Bruce Campbell, and I can't start my day by waxing my morning wood."
** One of the nerds, Daniel, apparently made a NewYearsResolution not to masturbate. When he breaks it, Baby New Year comes to kill him for breaking the resolution. [[spoiler:He backs off when Daniel realizes being strangled turns him on.]]
* Played with (heehee) in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' on one occasion.
-->'''Ray Tracer:''' You blokes should try logging off. Relieves tension.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the TropeNamer for BreakingInOldHabits, has its moments of subtle implication, and other times not so subtle.
** A great one, Dr. Zoidberg laments how he will get rid of his male jelly when he fails to mate. Fry holds up his dismembered arm and says "I'll lend you this."
** From "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12SpanishFry Spanish Fry]]", the Omicronian Emperor Lrr wants to use Fry's "lower horn" as an aphrodisiac. InnocentInnuendo' is used, which Bender points out and jokes about.
--->'''Lrr:''' I think I'll have Fry's lower horn jerked.\\
'''Bender:''' It's used to it! Woo!
** In one of the What-If machine episodes, a recently turned human Bender tried to "fix his antenna" down there. But Fry quickly stopped him from doing it because it'll "make God cry."
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E7AHeadInThePolls A Head in the Polls]]", Richard Nixon's head tells Fry and Leela that he loved his body, this resulted in this quote:
--->'''Fry:''' I spent most of my teen years loving my body... of course it was ''tough love'' but...\\
'''Leela:''' ''[elbows Fry]'' Fry, He (Nixon) opened relations with China, he doesn't want to hear about your ding-dong.
** In “[[Recap/FuturamaS4E13TheDevilsHandsAreIdlePlaythings The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings]]”, one of the reasons the Robot Devil wants his own hands back is because Fry’s hands instinctually attempt this.
--->'''Robot Devil:''' These hands keep touching me in places!
* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' features Andrew Glouberman, a pubescent boy, who masturbates to deal with his spontaneous erections, as well as after he discovers porn.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': As a typical 14-year-old boy, Morty is a chronic masturbator. He awkwardly warns Jerry not to come into his room when he's on the internet because who knows what he could be looking at, and only makes a half-hearted attempt to explain away that he's using an alien sex doll robot in his room before just giving up and going back to it. In Season 2's "Total Rickall", a flashback reveals Summer coming home early to find him masturbating in the kitchen. When she demands to know why the hell he's doing it in the kitchen, in embarrassment he angrily declares that he does it in every room of the house (and as she flees, he defiantly shouts after her that he was thinking of her best friend). In "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", after Morty spends a few months trapped on a primitive alien planet without his laptop, he admits to masturbating to "an extra-curvy piece of driftwood".
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': At the end of "Year of The Green Monkey", while hanging outside down in his monkey form, Omi suddenly feels the urge to scratch in a place he has never scratched before. The camera then focuses on his colleagues' horrified expressions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' has a PlayedForDrama example in "[[Recap/TucaAndBertieS1E05Plumage Plumage]]". Bertie has spent nearly the entire episode getting unwanted attention from creepy men, and Pastry Pete getting to close to her during her apprenticeship drives her to run off to the restroom to masturbate. The whole scene is clearly played for FanDisservice and is an indicator that Bertie has some sort of sexual trauma going on.
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* ''Series/YediYuz'':
** In "Büyük Günahlar", Aytaç asks his mystery caller -- unknowingly fifteen-year-old Elif -- to call him back at night, once the rest of the household is asleep. She obliges his wish, and as their late-night conversation turns sexual, he quietly pleasures himself beneath a blanket. Unfortunately for him, he's not nearly as silent enough for it to go unnoticed on an audio recording, which is later used for {{Blackmail}}.
** "Eşitlik" begins with a [[SexMontage montage]] of men masturbating with enthusiasm to the same amateur sex tape (as well as three college-aged women, who are hate-watching it with pointed disgust).
* In a ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode, Frank mentions he has plans for Valentine's night. When asked with who, he replies "nobody".
* One of the ''Series/AlienNation'' TV movies makes a reference to Jocelyn Elders' firing when Susan worries that Buck doesn't have an "outlet" and wants George to talk to him about not letting his fluid build up. The Tectonese are more frank about sex than most Americans, so Susan doesn't see what all the fuss was about.
* Used in the episode "Out on a Limb" of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Lindsay notes that she has hit 3 climaxes in one night plenty of times.
* ''Series/AwkwafinaIsNoraFromQueens'' has Nora perform this oh so much. The second episode had her planning to masturbate for seven to twelve hours before being swept up in Grandma's adventure to Atlantic City. [[spoiler:At the end, she's on the bus pleasuring herself to Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights.]]
* ''Series/{{Banshee}}'':
** Anna masturbates with a shower head while thinking of Lucas. When that isn't enough, she has sex with her husband.
** Rebecca does this herself later, thinking of Lucas. And also [[IncestSubtext her uncle]].
* Mentioned on several occasions but (unlike the [[UnusualEuphemism frakking]]) never actually shown in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.
* ''Series/BetterOffTed'''s obligatory sexual harassment episode nods at this:
-->'''Veronica''': Sheila claims you propositioned her for a threesome.\\
'''Ted''': Veronica, I work full-time and I have an eight-year-old daughter. I don't even have the energy for a onesome.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' when Howard, after seeing how good his robotic hand was and how real it felt while massaging his back, decided to gave the hand another use. That was until it jammed.
* In ''Series/BlackBooks'', Fran's subplot in the episode "The Big Lockout" basically involves her having a wank while listening to the Radio/ShippingForecast because she finds the voice of the guy who's delivering it irresistibly arousing.
* ''Recap/BlackMirrorShutUpAndDance'': Kenny's implied date kicks off the plot of the episode.
* When a character on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' swears off men, her unsatiated libido compels her to hit on any male she meets. To quell her advances, one of her co-workers brings his psychiatrist girlfriend to the lab, who quite sensibly recommends some solitary release as an alternative.
** When Mr. Fisher the depressed assistant gets in trouble for sleeping with a suspect, he replies:
-->'''Mr. Fisher:''' Can I please keep my job if I promise never ever to have sex again with anyone, which, by the way, suits me temperamentally? I happen to be very self-sufficient.
* There are constant jokes at Richard's expense in ''Series/{{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."
* ''Series/BrassEye'' reported a story about American senator Dale Lee Aggsby, who "extracted his genitalia at a rally and manipulated them to issue." "Several quarts of reproductive mucous were expelled rhythmically into the crowd". It seemed he suffered from Prestodidwick's Congina, a rare blood disorder which causes involuntary erective pressure.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me]]", Buffy herself alludes to masturbating to a friend in 5th grade. "It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song, ‘I touch myself’. Of course, I had no idea what it was about.”
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E22Restless Restless]]", regarding Willow and Tara "doing spells" together - well, they are into magic (and each other) - Xander (in a dream) says, "Sometimes I think about two girls doing a spell together... and then I go do a spell by myself."
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E16Storyteller Storyteller]]", Andrew has locked himself in the bathroom to edit his documentary on Buffy.
--->'''Anya:''' For God's sakes, Andrew. You've been in here for 30 minutes. What are you doing?
--->'''Andrew:''' Entertaining and educating.
--->'''Anya:''' Why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us?
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]", when Xander tells the others he's taking Anya to the prom:
--->'''Xander :''' Choice is kind of a broad term for my situation. See, it's either Anya or the sock puppet of love for this boy. ''[holds his right hand in puppet shape, speaks in silly voice]'' "I love you, Xander. I'll never leave you."
** Buffy's not the only Slayer to do this. In ''VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayerChaosBleeds'', upon finding a stake Faith might comment on keeping it under her bed as a dildo. Ya gotta pity whoever that thing's used on after she's put it Lord knows where. The comics suggest she still does this.
** Then of course there was "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]" where it looks like Buffy's idea of beating the Gentlemen is to beat them off.
** Willow accuses Oz of doing this when he won't see her. Turns out it's because he's about to turn into a werewolf and he wants to protect her.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy Band Candy]]", all the adults are turned into children, and Cordelia says her father was doing this in the bathroom.
* On ''Series/TheColbertReport'' Stephen reacts to political candidate Christine O'Donnell's claim that masturbation is a form of adultery by marrying his hand, just to be safe. In a later episode he's shocked to realize that that might make him gay because he's been "doing it with a dude."
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** In one episode, a 12-year-old girl is found to be sexually abused and her brother is suspected when his semen is found on her nightdress. He gets interrogated harshly but can't stick up for himself until Nick quietly takes him to the side and tells him that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. The brother then admits that the nightdress was the closest thing he could grab to clean up after himself but that he was too ashamed to tell the police this. [[spoiler:It was her dad, who had also raped her.]]
** In a more serious example, a peeping tom's activities kept escalating, which, according to Catherine, would eventually lead to breaking-and-entering and rape (they did). The clue to this was that, while earlier he had limited himself to peeping and stalking, they suddenly found evidence of him masturbating at the scene.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Alma masturbates at one point thinking about Darío. Later he does the same thing when fantasizing of them having sex.
* ''Series/DearWhitePeople'':
** Lionel in Episode 2 of Season 1 to the sounds of Troy screwing the women he has over. He finally manages to "go all the way" in the end of the episode after Troy gives him a haircut.
** Sam does in this in the Season 2 premiere too while fantasizing being with Gabe, only to have [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Joelle walk in on her.]]
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' as it already tackled NoPeriodsPeriod 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 BigBrotherMentor 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.
* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Austin masturbates with his eyes closed on the couch to get "inspiration" for writing.
* In a third season episode of ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', Johnny Drama is filming his first scene in a new television pilot. However, as the director keeps making his monologue longer and more difficult, Drama starts to have a panic attack. However, remembering advice that Turtle gave him earlier, he proceeds to release some stress. Of course Drama being [[ButtMonkey Drama]], he forgets to turn off his microphone and the whole studio crew hears him.
* Near the end of his dementia-ridden father's life, Mark Greene on ''Series/{{ER}}'' had to stop his dad from engaging in public masturbation.
* ''{{Series/Euphoria}}'':
** Johnny United, the guy online who pays Kat to perform privately, starts masturbating at her mocking, as it turns him on.
** There's a disturbing example in the flashback when Jules is sent to the psych ward, where a man masturbates aggressively on seeing the female doctor with her (he's placed in isolation, or "the quiet room", for this).
** At the beginning of "'03 Bonnie and Clyde" Rue masturbates while fantasizing about Jules.
* ''Series/FamilyFeud'': Questions that include a euphemism for "masturbate" are asked on a regular (at times, seemingly daily) basis. One common example is to the question, "Name something a squirrel does with a nut," to which an answer was "scratches it." ("Nut" being slang for a part of the male crotch, and scratch being the "masturbate" synonym.) However, the answer came up once during the Richard Karn-hosted era, when during an NBA Stars special, a contestant answered "masturbate" to the question, "Name something a teenaged boy could do all day?"... and it got him two points!
* ''Series/FantasyIsland2021'': Isabel tells Rachel she "read her book one-handed" and they flirt about this afterward.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
** In "Sons and Lovers", Aeryn Sun suggests sex would be a practical means of relieving the UnresolvedSexualTension between her and John Crichton, without all this weird human emotional-attachment stuff he's into.
--->'''John:''' You know what? I got two hands ''[makes masturbating gesture]'' I can alternate, I can release all the tension I want. I don't need your charity.\\
'''Aeryn:''' And I don't need your emotions. But we can have sex if you want.
** In "Look at the Princess", John is pointing Braca's gun at different parts of his own body. Including, at one point, his hand:
--->'''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 mindlinked to her at this point, in an awkward situation. An odd case of A Date With Rosie Palms by proxy.
* ''Series/{{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.
** Mal alludes to masturbation in "[[Recap/FireflyE06OurMrsReynolds Our Mrs. Reynolds]]", where he comments that "no one but me's taken hold of my plow in a good long while."
** Though she doesn't do anything visible, River also has an intense reaction to Zoe and Wash making out on the bridge in "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects In Space]]", and, in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', she spies on [[spoiler:Simon and Kaylee]] making love in the engine room (before that, Kaylee mentions having only masturbatory sexual experience for some time).
** "Ceiling River is watching you procreate."
** Also when Jayne talks to Shepherd Book about Book being part of a celibate order. When he asks Book if he’s “intact” , Book says he directs his energy elsewhere. Jayne replies “like masturbatin’?”
* Mentioned a few times in ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** When Chandler and Joey agree to give up the girls' apartment if Rachel and Monica kiss for one minute, the scene cuts to them returning to their original apartment, walking directly into their bedrooms and closing the doors.
** Rachel says she can't sleep with Mark just to get back at Ross. Mark says he's okay with that, and when she doesn't change her mind says that he'll just be getting back at Ross on his own again.
** Monica walks in on Chandler watching porn, and he quickly changes the channel to a wildlife documentary. Unfortunately, she can still see what he was ''doing'', and his apparent choice of programme leads her to conclude he's turned on by ''sharks''.
** In the episode where Ross and Rachel discuss having a 'bonus night', they talk about how good their sex used to be, and Rachel tells Ross he was especially good with his hands. When she finally tells him it's not going to happen (in front of everybody), he angrily says "From now on the only person who’s going to enjoy these bad boys (holds up his hands) is me." It takes him a second to realize what he just said.
* This is briefly seen (with a [[SceneryCensor wall as a censor bar]]) and interrupted in HBO's ''Series/GenerationKill''.
** One of the episodes is named "Combat Jack" for the Marines' masturbating after the adrenaline rush of a firefight.
** The book itself actively describes Marines going through this; in one case, there's even a quote from one Marine who said he had to do it three times in rapid succession, and was worried something was broken down there.
** "Hey, reporter! If you lay with your cock against the ground when a tank goes by, it feels fuckin' great!"
* ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': Ginny gets into phone sex with Marcus at his urging, and then uses her toothbrush as a makeshift sex toy.
* Blaine in ''Series/{{Glee}}''. In "The First Time" he is having a conversation with his boyfriend Kurt about sex. Up to this point, they have agreed on taking things slowly, but now they're exploring the possibility of doing the deed. When Kurt asks him if he's ever tempted to go there with him, he replies that yeah, he is, but "that's why they invented masturbation", implying as a bonus that he [[DoubleEntendre thinks of Kurt when he engages in such activity]].
* In the Amazon series ''Series/{{Hanna}}'', the first episode has a scene where Hanna not only masturbates, but tastes her lubrication while doing so.
* ''Series/{{Happy}}'' "Disco Mikey" Scaramucci starts doing this constantly after [[spoiler: resurrecting as a demon-possessed zombie.]] Nick Sax has to bat Mikey's hand away to get him to stop doing it.
* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Jackie is shown masturbating more than once.
* ''Series/{{House}}'' has on multiple occasions made snarky jokes about viewing porn in his office and masturbating. Given most of the walls are made of glass one hopes he is joking. Being that he's House, who knows.
** Appears to be true, and not just a House snark. At least we know from Cameron that he keeps his porn in the second desk drawer.
** There's also a rather squicky clinic scene where House deduces that a toddler's symptoms are result of this.
** When Wilson was staying with House he arrives at his apartment to find a stethoscope on the doorknob:
--->'''Wilson''': You said... you'd hang the stethoscope if you were having sex.\\
'''House''': I didn't say it had to be with another person.\\
'''Wilson''': [...] I was waiting out there for hours!\\
'''House''': Well, I need a lot of foreplay. And then there's the cuddling afterwards.
** As of season six, we now also have House freaking out Wilson when he walks into the living room to find House is "picking lint out of his belly button." Which he later happily admits he wasn't actually doing. In addition, in Private Lives his answer to Wilson's question about what he's doing that night is simply a gleeful "Masturbating!"
** When House went bowling with Chase (in "No More Mr. Nice Guy"), he explained that this was because bowling isn't "one of the two things guys do by themselves." Chase, knowing House very well, asked what the ''second'' thing is... "Other hand," replies House.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** In one episode, Marshall is worried about "reading a magazine" at work. Barney answers that he (Barney) "reads a magazine" several times at work. Barney was talking about masturbation, whereas Marshall was talking about taking a deuce at work.
** In episode 13 of the sixth season, Marshall asked to do it in order to get his sperm checked by a doctor. However, it becomes quite difficult to carry out as his parents happen to be visiting at the time.
* An episode of ''Series/TheHughleys'' had D.L.'s wife remarking 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.
* An episode of Creator/RobBrydon's comedy-drama series ''Human Remains'' has Rob playing a man whose compulsive masturbation apparently stems from the loss of his mother.
* ''Series/InTheDark'': Murphy starts masturbating while Max is in the shower, which he comes out to find her doing. They have sex, and when it's over she claims to have been "masturbating with your body".
* ''Series/KrodMandoonAndTheFlamingSwordOfFire'': Dongalor goes off to do this after Barnabas persuades him to leave things for the next day with the maiden he captured.
* On ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', Harvey Denton has a bizarre paranoia about walking into the living room to find his nephew, [[OnlySaneMan 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}}s.
* In a ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' flashback episode set five years before Lucifer met Chloe, Amenadiel walks in on Lucifer getting ready to masturbate to ''Hot Tub High School'', which features a 19-year-old Chloe in a nude scene.
* ''Series/MadMen''
** Betty Draper leans against a running washing machine and orgasms while fantasizing about a door-to-door salesman who had visited the day before. (She's sexually frustrated because her husband is rarely home, and when he is he often claims to be too tired. The real reason? Like any self-respecting early-'60s executive, he has multiple girls on the side.)
** 10-year-old Sally Draper is caught masturbating (fully clothed) to [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Ilya Kuryakin]] while at a sleepover at a friend's house. Neither the friend's mother (who caught her) nor Betty was amused. It's possible she simply didn't know what she was doing, though -- it's not uncommon for children younger than her to realize that touching yourself in certain places feels good, and it's likely the sexual education classes of the early 1960s wouldn't have helped to clear anything up...
** In an earlier episode, the team try to find a way to advertise something that claims to be a way of losing weight, but really is actually a device for female masturbation. (Or, 'a way of simulating a man, without the man'.) When Peggy first tries it on and realizes what it is she is shocked, but by the end of the episode, she is seen looking at it speculatively and pulling it out of the box.
* This was a RunningGag for Bud Bundy and his pathetic, increasingly desperate attempts to get laid on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Getting caught doing this in the library resulted in episode-long hilarity in the ninth season.
** Bud isn't the only one. Peg has made countless references to having to finish sex herself after Al falls asleep, as well as using an obscene amount of batteries...
** And her various shower-heads...
** During the time between Steve and Jefferson, Marcy made a reference to "doing her taxes". Which is odd, as she has shown more than once that she can "get a refund" without even being touched.
* A reference was [[ExecutiveMeddling explicitly removed]] from an episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g#t=2m15s "All-England Summarize Proust" competition]], Creator/GrahamChapman lists his favorite hobbies as "strangling animals, golf and masturbation", which forces the host to kick him out seeing as 'golf's not very popular around here'. Creator/TheBBC forced them to remove the word from reruns, despite objections from the cast. "Everybody masturbates!" Creator/TerryJones apparently retorted to the head of quality control. "Don't you masturbate, sir?" Unfortunately that didn't work, and most home video copies contain the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8Qc6Lv_7w#t=2m58s clumsily edited version]] (though notice the subtitles include 'masturbation')
* ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'': Junior manages to "sprain" his penis from overuse on one episode.
* ''Series/OutrageousFortune'' has enough examples it could probably have it's own page.
* In ''Series/{{Oz}}'', Alvarez once masturbates in his prison cell and Ryan O'Reilly, a StalkerWithACrush {{Yandere}} for Dr. Nathan, does this while thinking of her.
-->'''Keller''': How many times can a guy jerk off in one day anyway?\\
'''Glynn''': I suppose it depends on the man.\\
'''Alvarez''': Will you keep it down?! Some of us are trying to masturbate!
* In ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' the grandfather -- concerned about the ecological impact of Drew taking five showers a day -- decides they must have TheTalk.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. [[FairCop Detective Joss Carter]] is interrogating a criminal in prison, who says that afterwards he's got "a date with a sock".
* ''Series/Preacher2016'': Herr Starr starts masturbating in the middle of a wrestling match, while he's being ''held in a chokehold''. It turns out it's a tactic to distract his opponent, which works.
* ''Series/PrivatePractice'': The female doctors are surprised that Addison doesn't do that. She's equally shocked that they do. One of them suggests fantasizing about a male coworker in the shower, while using a pulsating massage shower head. The episode ends with Addison getting in the shower, clearly intending to give it a try.
* Johnny Vegas, on an episode of ''Series/{{QI}}'', joked that Kellogg's Corn Flakes were designed to prevent masturbation in young boys.
-->'''Creator/StephenFry:''' Johnny Vegas, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight take some points]]!\\
'''Johnny Vegas:''' ''[surprised]'' You're joking!
* In the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', 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.
* The crew of ''Series/RedDwarf'' generally don't have much choice about this, there seldom being any women around:
-->'''Cat:''' You mean after all this, I still haven't got a date? Damn! Another year when I have to send a Valentine's card to my hand!\\\
'''Rimmer''' ([[spoiler:''On learning he has (briefly) become alive again'']]): Kryten! Unpack Rachel, and get out the puncture repair kit!\\\
'''[[spoiler:Fem!]]Rimmer''': How could you even contemplate making love to yourself?\\
'''Rimmer:''' Well, why break the habit of a lifetime?
* In a spoof VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' in which D.J... [=*cough*=] figures out how his plumbing works and ends up spending over an hour in the bathroom, Darlene explains to their puzzled father (and the howling audience) that it means "...he's either ''really good'' at it... or ''really bad'' at it."
* The very title of a controversial ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit titled "Attack Of The Masturbating Zombies", a parody of Grade-B 1950s horror movies.
* Comes up quite a few times on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', most notably J.D. hurting his "me-time hand".
** Also when J.D. says to Turk "Why don't you take care of yourself?" Turk responds he's only ever done that twice in his life. J.D. says the same but his monologue adds "If by ‘in my life’ you mean ‘since dinner’.”
** Dr. Cox also gives this advice to Turk:
--->'''Dr. Cox''': I'll be more than glad to tell you what a lot of doctors do to relieve the stress: Just take a little trip to "Palmdale."\\
'''Turk:''' What?\\
'''Dr. Cox:''' Okay. Give yourself the old "low-five."\\
'''Turk:''' I'm not getting it.\\
'''Dr. Cox:''' Physician, love thyself.\\
'''Turk:''' Are you talkin' about downtown, Lester Brown?\\
'''Dr. Cox:''' Lowers the heart-rate, releases the endorphins. It's basic physiology.
** Elliot also discovers the joy of masturbating in one of the earlier episodes (thanks to Carla's advice about washing machines).
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' infamously had the episode "The Contest", where the main four made a bet over who could go the longest without masturbating. In place of the usual slang terms, the UnusualEuphemism "master of your domain" was used to mean someone who could successfully resist the urge to masturbate. Elaine was forced to place a larger bet since it was assumed that [[AllWomenArePrudes as a woman she would have an easier time resisting]] than [[AllMenArePerverts the men]], however [[AllWomenAreLustful she was the second eliminated]]. Kramer was eliminated almost ''immediately'' thanks to a nudist moving into the building across the street who liked to keep her curtains open. A later episode revealed that George ended up winning the contest. [[spoiler:However, in the GrandFinale he confesses that he cheated, making Jerry the true winner]].
* Discussed and shown every so often in ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', one of the more memorable instances being Charlotte's "addiction" to the Rabbit vibrator, necessitating an "intervention" by her friends.
* ''Series/SexLife'':
** Billie masturbates by using a vibrator after giving up on having sex with Cooper as he's more interested in the football game than her.
** Cooper is later shown masturbating while he reads Billie's racy diary accounts about her ex Brad.
** Billie masturbates while watching Brad and Sasha have sex over [=FaceTime=].
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'':
** Sid 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.
** There's an EXTREMELY uncomfortable example of female masturbation in season two. 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 bed -- where she ''stays for the rest of the night''.
* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'': and suddenly -- phht! Bingo! You wake up. And you're lying there sweating, desperately looking for the tissue which you ''know'' is still in your pocket, and the remote control which is ''somewhere'' on the floor, and it's like walking in on yourself, you know? It's just like "What you doing?"
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Tuvok rather guiltily uses a holodeck when he has ''[[MateOrDie pon farr]]'' in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. He balked at first and had to be talked into it. He did not go blind.
** It was not mentioned when Reginald Barclay got into trouble for using the holodeck with simulated other members of the crew who (in his holodeck simulation) practically worshiped Barclay. It was merely mentioned that it was wrong of him to simulate them, but no mention was made of the obvious potential there. To be fair, Barclay is socially awkward enough that he likely wouldn't have ''tried'' anything like that.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent Descent]]", Data casually mentions that he's tried to "induce sexual desire by subjecting myself to erotic imagery" during an attempt explore his emotions, but to no effect.
** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Rom off-handedly mentions that his ear infection might be due to him getting too much ''oo-mox'' lately. When asked who the lucky lady is, he sheepishly admits that there isn't anyone else involved.
* It's referenced a few times on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. The most blatant example comes in "I Believe The Children Are Our Future", where, due to [[spoiler:the influence of the Antichrist]], Dean winds up with hairy palms. His explanation? "Got bored. That nurse was hot."
* Chewbacca's dad Itchy is clearly cracking one off to Diahann Caroll during ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''. [[{{Squick}} While his grandson and daughter-in-law are in the other room]].
* ''Series/{{Taboo}}'': Cholmondeley asks James if Laura Bow is free for him to pursue, luridly exhorting that she's so pretty that she's not just someone he wants to sleep with but masturbates about.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'' in the eleventh episode of season 2, when Coach Finstock is finally going to let Stiles, who is normally a bench-warmer, into a lacrosse game this comes up.
-->'''Stiles:''' I'm playing? On the field? With the team?\\
'''Finstock:''' Yes! Unless you'd rather play with yourself!\\
'''Stiles:''' I already did that today. Twice.
* ''Series/That70sShow'':
** Eric, Kelso and expecially Fez have mentioned their fondness for hands-on love. We don't know about Hyde, but he voiced his support for the practice -- when Fez asked how much masturbation is too much, Hyde responded, "There's no such thing as too much."
** In "Happy Jack", Donna walks in on Eric masturbating much to the embarrassment of both. A conversation between the to of them reveals that Donna herself masturbates.
** 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."
** Kelso gets a job donating sperm at a sperm bank. The gang is in the basement sharing a bowl of popcorn, when he comes back from his job. He takes the bowl, dips his right hand in to take a handful then asks, "Who else wants some?" Everyone yells, "NO!"
** In one episode, someone has been breaking into the record store, so they set up a camera, and they find out Fez has been living there.
--->'''Fez:''' I thought I was alone...\\
'''Hyde:''' I've known Fez for a long time. And if he thought he was alone, we need to turn this off ''right'' now.
* A ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' sketch features a pair of self-employed work-from-home types who meet at a party and, while their wives are getting the drinks, admit to each other that they've yet to fully overcome the "have a lot of covert wanks while my wife is out the house at work" issue.
* ''{{Series/Trinkets}}'': {{Discussed}}. In the third episode, Moe suggests that Elodie try this in order to feel more comfortable with her body before engaging with a sexual partner. Elodie shoplifts a sex toy to use.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'':
** After drinking vampiric blood to heal herself, Sookie has her libido amped up, and she begins to stroke herself at night. In a later scene she's seen rubbing herself through her shorts to satisfy her lust.
** Jason has a much worse run-in with vampire blood. He overdosed, and he didn't need healing, so it all went to his libido. He jacked off until he developed a sore on his hand, and finally had to go to a doctor to deflate his penis.
* ''{{Series/Vida}}'':
** Emma tries this but finds herself unable to do so since Eddy and another group of women are praying or singing for Vida.
** In the second season, the councilman implies he'll be doing this after Lyn backs off from sex with him.
* The UK's Creator/Channel4 attempted a series of documentaries under the banner "Wank Week". [[MoralGuardians This was met with the inevitable response]].
%%** A similar plot was used in ''Series/{{Weeds}}''.
* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'': Quinn is often teased about masturbating by Olivia, but tries to deny it. Later we see him do it while on the beach by himself.
* From a Hoedown on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'':
-->'''Drew:''' Let me tell you, ever since I was thirteen / You've given me the best lovin' that I've ever seen. / Let me tell ya something, that I know you can't stand / I've been cheating on you with my other hand!
* ''Series/You2018'':
** After having SpeedSex with her boyfriend, [[ThePeepingTom Joe watches]] Beck masturbate from outside her apartment, which causes him to do the same ''right there on the sidewalk'' hidden in the bushes, but it's interrupted when [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown an old lady walks over.]]
** He does it again in a later episode when he discovers a picture of Beck in a swimsuit [[spoiler: among the ''hundreds'' of photos of Beck that Peach has on her laptop.]] Joe masturbates to the picture and, when he's 'finished', [[spoiler: resumes snooping through Peach's laptop.]]
* In ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', Rick has accidentally killed Neil. He buries the body in the garden then he 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.
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* PornStash - A character has a personal collection of pornography and can usually be assumed to use it as an aid to masturbation.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/StephenKing touches on this in several of his books:
** ''Literature/TheStand'':
*** Lloyd masturbated so he could sleep after the Captain Trips superflu killed everyone in the prison but him.
*** The fat, homely and awkward Harold was nicknamed "Whack-Off Lauder" in high school from a rumor that he habitually masturbated into his pants. Throughout the story, he gradually becomes more fit, attractive, and confident, practically thriving in the post-apocalypse world... but there are still disastrous consequences for the torment he was put through.
*** Stu replies to Harold’s fear that he’ll rape Frannie by saying it’s not necessary if a man is good with his hands.
** ''Literature/TheDarkTower2004'':
*** Roland Deschain provides personal compensation by stating the fact that even though he's missing a few fingers on his right hand (a previously fine-tuned killing machine of a hand), it's fine because "I jack off left-handed."
*** In a flashback, a fourteen-year-old Roland was planning to do this until he is called aside by Marten to show him that [[spoiler:he's been having sex with Roland's mom]]. He tops off the scene by telling Roland "I hope you enjoy your hand."
*** In another flashback, Susan Delgado masturbates for the first time a few hours after meeting Roland.
*** The young, psychotic Detta Walker indulged in this while doing destructive things such as breaking plates.
** In ''Literature/TheTalisman'', when Jack meets the friendly bumpkin [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolf]] in the Territories, Wolf starts casually playing "pocket pool" in his overalls while explaining his role as shepherd.
* Mentioned in ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''. Notably, how all the impoverished Russian [=POWs=] had even stopped masturbating.
* Masturbating due to a lack of social life is a running gag in ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise''.
* On the other hand masturbating during guard duty is strongly discouraged in the novel ''Literature/{{Beaufort}}'' by Ron Leshem, about an Israeli Defense Force outpost in southern Lebanon.
%%* Mentioned in the ''Literature/BlackHawkDown'' novel.
* Comes up often in ''Literature/TheChocolateWar''. Notably, early in the book [[ManipulativeBastard Archie]] opens a bathroom stall where [[TheBully Emile]] is masturbating; Archie has a broken camera with him, so he pretends to take a picture and uses it to blackmail Emile throughout the story.
* When Literature/CiaphasCain 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 [[BrainBleach prefers not to muse over]]. Hint: Jurgen is an established connoisseur of porno slates.
* Masturbation, ritual or otherwise, is a running joke in the ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge'' series.
* In ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'', the overweight, unemployed, UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Ignatius Reilly masturbates in one scene while [[{{Squick}} fondly remembering his dead dog. Ew]]. Later on, his stained bedsheets make an appearance [[spoiler: as a protest banner, which, not surprisingly, no one wants to touch]].
* Lawrence Waterhouse from Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'' spends one chapter complaining to himself about how his sex drive is inversely connected to his math skills. He comes up with a technological euphemism: [[UnusualEuphemism "Manual Override"]]. There are even ''graphs''.
** Actually, there's so much (not illogical) technical language in that section that by the time the plot resumes the reader has almost forgotten that the topic is types of sexual experience.
* ''Literature/{{Deenie}}'': A book by Creator/JudyBlume, the title character 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 [[FlawlessToken he might've allowed it if the character were a boy]].
* Referenced in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' - the [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold head of the Seamstresses' Guild]] is ''called'' Rosie Palm.
* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': In ''Furyborn'', Rielle wakes up in the middle of a session while dreaming about Corien. She has another date while fantasizing about Audric and Ludivine in ''Kingsbane''.
* ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' by Creator/ErnestHemingway. The Italian officers in the mess tease the priest (who doesn't go to the brothel) by saying: "Priest every night, five against one!"
* Mentioned in the novel ''Literature/FlightOfTheIntruder'':
-->'''Seaman:''' I've beat off so many times in the shower that I get a hardon every time it rains!
* ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'': When Alabaster and Syenite's TeethClenchedTeamwork hits an even more stressful snag, he asks if it would improve her mood to give her some time alone to masturbate. She refuses to give him the satisfaction of admitting that it would.
* The book ''Fools Die'' mentions the ex-wife of one of the characters is advised by her psychiatrist to set aside some alone time each day to use a vibrator. Everyone in the house, including the children, refer to it as the "Happy Hour."
* In ''Literature/TheFrogKing'' Harry resignedly wrings out 'a wank only Henry Ford could love' while his girlfriend is drunk and in the shower less than five feet away.
* According to a [[SoundOff marching song]] in ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'', Rosie is too gentle for the tastes of the [[BadassArmy Descott Rangers]]:
--> -An' pops our cocks with jagged rocks/We're hardy sons of bitches!
* ''Literature/GirlsDontHit'':
** Echo masturbates in bed opposite Joss after witnessing her first hit. Joss's thoughts indicate she had done the same thing and that it's common as a reaction.
** Joss also masturbates when she's looking at risque photos of her husband's mistress.
** Echo later masturbates once again in the wake of killing someone.
** When they're in Las Vegas, Joss masturbates watching Echo get a lap dance.
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'', a race of parallel universe is featured which can (to an extent) control their own density and are having sex by merging with each other. Alternately, they can use the decreased density to either pull the tips of their limbs through each other (the feeling afterwards was described by someone as "nicely sleepy") or by trying to merge with a rock. To those who still don't get the analogy, the latter is called ''rock-rubbing''. Both are considered socially unacceptable.
* ''Literature/Haunted2015'': "Guts", the infamous first story which deals with stories of masturbation gone horribly, horribly wrong.
* In ''Literature/LikeAFishUnderstandsATree'', George masturbates while he thinks about Tracy. He's never received any sex education - he only knows that he wishes Tracy could be there while he does it, and maybe even touch him, but he's worried she'd find it rude.
* Pops up in ''[[Literature/{{Outlander}} Lord John and the Succubus]]'', where one officer uses the euphemism "boxing the Jesuit", and their Austrian hosts don't get it. Lord John has to explain by way of hand gesture.
* ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'': From the [[http://adamcadre.ac/01lyttle.html 2001 entries]]:
-->''"If you're going to start reading my novel, please stop touching yourself like that."''
--->-- '''Nick Montfort'''
-->"Man, you won't believe what happened to me tonight," Dave declared, bursting into our dorm room, "but first I gotta go beat off!"
--->-- '''Jonathan Boggess'''
* A female example in the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books. Cat is just beginning to accept her own sexuality. A few hours after making out with her love interest, she takes a bath and accidentally touches herself. Then she does it on purpose, and ''then'' she starts to get really into it.
* ''Literature/PoisonedApplesPoemsForYouMyPretty'': In "Transformation", the narrator has some alone time while thinking of their crush, the frog prince.
* A staple of Creator/PhilipRoth's oeuvre; his characters, whether sexually repressed or otherwise, are generally more likely to masturbate than to engage in actual sex. ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'' takes it to the extreme: the titular complaint is that, apparently, Jewish men aren't supposed to masturbate, while the protagonist does it a '''lot''' throughout the course of the book.
* Rabbit and his wife do this together in John Updike's ''Rabbit Redux''.
* Mother's Younger Brother does this in E.L. Doctorow's ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}''.
* A weird but very sweet version in ''Literature/TheRedTent''. In the time of Jacob in the Bible, when girls get their first period their female relatives have a ceremony for them and uses a goddess statue to gently break their hymen, letting the blood soak into the earth. It's a warm, loving and even humorous ceremony; the girl is given drugs to help her relax. The main character Dinah actually has an orgasm.
* In ''Literature/TheShockwaveRider'', Nick Haflinger moves into company housing of his new employer. He notes a kit which seems standard for such housing in the future. It contains videos, a mask with scents, and a device which women can leave pushed out and men can push in...or not. He reminds himself that he should use it a few times...but not too often. As the company will be making note of it.
* ''Literature/{{Skinny}}'' has a rather {{squick}}y scene where a young girl masturbates while in the tub.
* While Liir is in the Household Guard in ''Literature/SonOfAWitch'', it is noted that he doesn't masturbate... much.
* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheOtori'', sexuality is mostly portrayed pragmatically: 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... off-handedly.
* Similar passages in Blume's ''Literature/ThenAgainMaybeIWont'' have made the book a favorite target of censors. Or perhaps it's because of the boy protagonist's [[NaughtyBirdwatching nocturnal activities]].
* Treated matter-of-factly in ''Literature/TheseWordsAreTrueAndFaithful.'' Since Sam and Ernie never move in together, they masturbate when they cannot be together. Also, since they are in a Dominant/submissive relationship, Sam masturbates after taking care of Ernie. Later, during the HumiliationConga, [[spoiler:Ernie's inability to get off to his favorite twink porn shows his metaphorical emasculation]].
* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Dragons don't share human taboos over sexuality, so when the titular young dragon goes for a swim in a lake in ''Black Powder War'', his human traveling companions have to dump out the water they'd collected when they belatedly realize ''why'' he was so happily wriggling against some rocks.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset'', 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."
%%* James Joyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''.
* 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.
* In ''Literature/TheZone'' series by James Rouch, [[CovertPervert Captain Revell]] witnesses [[TheSquadette Andrea]] masturbating in the woods. When Andrea later says that she can take care of herself (in the sense that she can protect herself), Revell can't help quipping that he already knows that.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Creator/KimBasinger has a memorable scene in an art gallery basement, costarring a slide projector's remote control, in ''Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks'', set to the Eurythmics' "This City Never Sleeps."
* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'':
** The main character from "E" is at one point masturbating while he's being watched by the spider.
** Masturbating to increasingly disturbing stuff was the main goal for the contestants in the "L" segment, with the last one to climax getting killed.
* In ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'', the titular character masturbates (as seen by his shadow) in a hut after a close conversation with the tribal princess. He gets walked in on by the correspondent who accompanied him. His excuse is he was just "practicing my mantra" and will finish his "meditation" in 10 minutes.
* ''Film/AllCheerleadersDie:'' When Tracy names the three people who've ever made her have orgasms, she begins by saying "Myself, of course."
* The memorable 1979 sex-education film ''Film/AmINormal'' is all about this. Hilarious in its well-meaning ineptitude, the film combines typical earnest sex-ed material with the story of Jimmy, a lad going through puberty. As just one illustrative example of the painful "comedy" in Jimmy's story, at one point he's at the library, where he has to ask a hard-of-hearing librarian for help by loudly exclaiming "I want to know about the male penis!" One patron is so shocked by this that his [[DodgyToupee toupée]] does a flip-take, flying several feet up off his head.[[hottip:* :In case you're curious, the answer given to the titular question is "Yes" - you're normal if you do, and normal if you don't.]]
* Lester in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' is obviously depressed, and more than once mentions masturbation in contrast with all he hates about his life. His unloving StepfordSmiler wife catches him in bed doing what he calls [[HurricaneOfEuphemisms "choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying 'hi' to my monster"]] because it's [[SexlessMarriage literally been years since she's had sex with him]]. The one time in the film they get close to, um, getting close, she stops it because she's afraid he'll spill beer all over her precious, precious furniture.
* The "sock scene" from ''Film/AmericanPie''.
** [[CargoShip "And this one time, at band camp..."]]
** This scene was also parodied in ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'', but this time it was a girl who was walked in on.
** And in ''Film/AnotherGayMovie'', where it's the boy with a collection of oddly shaped vegetables.
* ''Literature/AnatomyOfABoyfriend'': 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.
* In ''Film/AnnieHall'', Alvy and Annie are arguing and he focuses on a pretentious school course she's taking:
-->'''Alvy:''' What's the difference? It's all mental masturbation.\\
'''Annie:''' Oh, well, now we're finally getting to a subject you know something about.\\
'''Alvy:''' Hey, don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.
* ''Film/AprilFoolsDay'': While the various couples are getting it on, Arch sits down with one of Chaz's porno mags to relieve his frustration; before falling victim to a booby-trapped chair.
* ''Film/TheArcher'': Michael masturbates when watching girls in the shower through a peephole.
* ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'': Having been corrupted by the Lust painting, Gina exhausts her husband Dylan in the bedroom. When he staggers off to try to get some work done, she finds herself still craving sexual satisfaction, so she plants the kids in front of the television, tells them she needs some "alone time", and retreats to her bedroom to furiously masturbate. While she is in this vulnerable position, she is approached by Dorian's spirit, who promises her eternal pleasure.
* In ''Film/{{Baghead}}'', Matt heads up to his bed with a bottle of shampoo after making out with Michelle, but stopping shy of sleeping with her.
* In ''Film/BeingThere'', Eve tries to seduce ChanceTheGardener; when he tells her "I like to watch" - he's referring to television - she proceeds to pleasure herself on the floor.
* ''Film/BelowHerMouth'': Jasmine uses the bathtub's sprayer to stimulate herself.
* In the action-comedy ''Film/TheBigHit'', 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 [[BrickJoke there's a poster of him as "Customer of the Year" in the Adult Video section of a video store]].
* In ''Film/TheBlackBalloon2007'', Charlie pulls out his penis and starts masturbating during a dinner with Jackie, to her intense discomfort.
* ''Film/BlackSwan'': Somewhat averted in that Nina's time alone is suggested to her by her ballet instructor (yes, it's [[SurrealHorror that kind of movie]]), but Nina clearly has massive psychosexual issues.
* Eddie Adams from ''Film/BoogieNights'', a/k/a Dirk Diggler, is seen in a bathroom trying fervently to achieve an erection. It takes quite a while to get hard, as Eddie's been coked up most of the morning; so long, in fact, that porn director Jack Horner has brought in a substitute on set to keep filming on schedule. Eddie doesn't take this news well, and storms off.
* ''Film/TheBookOfRevelation'': Another more disturbing example occurs in the Australian film. Daniel is captured by a group of anonymous women and, among other forms of sexual and psychological torture, is instructed by one of the masked women to masturbate. She then begins to masturbate herself, standing over him, before he defiantly tells her that when "every man masturbates, he only thinks of himself". Ouch!
* Played for laughs in ''Film/BrainDonors'':
-->'''Volare:''' Do you realize what I was doing at the age of seven?\\
'''Flakfizer:''' I can imagine and you must be thankful you didn't go blind.\\
'''Volare:''' I was dancing professionally!\\
'''Flakfizer:''' Whatever you call it. Flogging the carrot, polishing the cue stick, choking the chicken, clearing the snorkel...
* Numerous references in ''Film/TheBurning'', including when Dave brings boys some porn magazines, and reminds Woodstock to "keep flexing the muscle".
* ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': 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.
* In ''Film/CinemaParadiso,'' after the new theater starts showing more risque movies, we see a whole row of teenage boys openly masturbating until an usher comes to yell at them.
* ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' had an elderly customer ask Dante for a restroom, some soft toilet paper, and a girlie magazine. It didn't end well.
* ''Film/ClerksII'' had an inebriated [[spoiler:Elias]] turned on by [[spoiler:the donkey show]]. "I'm sorry, Jesus..."
* In one scene in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', Alex masturbates in his room after a night of "ultra-violence" while listening to [[SoundtrackDissonance Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]], staring at his sacrilegious decor, and fantasizing about violent and satanic images.
* ''Film/CopOnAMission'' had its protagonist playing with himself in the shower after accidentally spying on a mob boss' mistress changing her clothing in a storeroom while on a stake-out, completely oblivious to his presence.
* ''Film/TheCraftLegacy'':
** Lily hears disturbing noises and investigates, walking in on her stepbrother masturbating while watching a movie.
** Lily briefly masturbates while casting a [[spoiler:love spell on Timmy]]. She's nearly CaughtWithYourPantsDown.
* ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'': Robbie does it while thinking of Jessica his babysitter that he loves.
* ''Film/{{Crush|2022}}'': Paige's mom Angie offers her sex toys for this, and also talks explicitly about masturbating herself.
* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007). A flashback shows the protagonist and his friend as teenagers jerking off together under a pier while talking of the female movie stars they fancy; ironically it's a HomoeroticSubtext scene as both of them are gay, but [[SecretlyGayActivity presumably have not admitted this]] at that stage in their lives.
* Starinski experiences DeathBySex shortly after helping himself to a dead German soldier's porn stash and proceeding to, well, help himself in ''[[Film/{{Deathwatch 2002}} Deathwatch]]''.
* ''Film/Desperados2020'': Wesley messes up her job interview for a school guidance counselor when she talks to the catholic school Principal about teaching masturbation to the students.
-->'''Wesley:''' I just want her to know she has options. Maybe it's a shower nozzle or an owl figurine. My first "boyfriend" was a teddy bear.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Rufus the Apostle attempts to prove to Jay and Bob that he's really from heaven:
-->'''Jay:''' Yo man, tell me something about me.\\
'''Rufus:''' You masturbate more than anyone on the planet.\\
'''Jay:''' Aw fuck, everyone knows that. Tell me something nobody knows.\\
'''Rufus:''' When you do it, you're thinking about guys.\\
'''Silent Bob:''' ''[shocked stare]''\\
'''Jay:''' ... Dude, [[HoYay not all the time]]!
* In one of the {{Squick}}ier moments of ''Film/EbolaSyndrome'' (in a film ''loaded'' with disgusting imagery, thats saying a lot), the villain, working as a cook in a restaurant, overhears his boss and the boss' mistress having sex in their bedroom. He then takes out a raw slab of beef, digs a hole in it, and uses the beef to pleasure himself. The same beef that was supposed to be served to customers the next day. ''Bon apetit''!
* ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'': Brad masturbates while daydreaming about [[LustObject Linda]] [[SexySurfacingShot getting out of the pool]] and taking her top off. [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown And then the real Linda opens the door on him]].
** The scene later homaged in the Music/FountainsOfWayne music video for ''Stacy's Mom''.
* ''Film/FirstGirlILoved'': When texting with Sasha, Anne tells her it helps getting to sleep if you masturbate. Sasha and Anne both end up doing this.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'': In an innuendo, the invalid Lt. Dan tells Forrest that since he doesn't have legs anymore, he spends much of his time "exercising his arms".
* A character in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin nicknamed "Hand Job"]] for his habit of masturbating at least ten times a day. It's also an example of the "mental health/sexual frustration" variety of masturbation in that the other recruits referred to him as a "crazy fucker" and that it ultimately got him scheduled for a Section 8 discharge[[labelnote:*]]Section 8 is a military discharge for those deemed mentally unfit for service[[/labelnote]] when he was caught doing it in the waiting room after being sent to see a Navy psychologist, and he ultimately would have gotten shipped out if not for him [[spoiler:getting killed by a VC booby trap]].
* ''Film/GingerSnaps2Unleashed'': Brigitte has a daydream where she and the other girls masturbate while instructed by their teacher on how to do this. It quickly becomes FanDisservice as her violent werewolf fantasies take over.
* ''Film/GirlsLikeMagic'': Jamie takes Maggie sex toy shopping, after which they both masturbate at the same time using theirs (in different places).
* ''Film/TheGuestHouse'': Rachel masturbates on the couch watching lesbian porn, which Amy sees.
* The protagonist Marie masturbates in the French horror film ''Film/HighTension'' after seeing her best friend Alex showering through the bathroom window earlier that night. Since she's listening to her walk-man during the act, this prevents her from hearing the killer get into the house until the murders are well underway.
%%* A scene around the beginning of ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay''.
* The first scene in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPart1'' ("The Dawn Of Man") starts with ape-men with a rising dawn behind them rising from sleep and then masturbating until they fall back down again, exhausted, all in silhouette.
* In ''Film/HumanNature'', a man masturbates in front of another person, which is meant to show that he is unaware of society's taboos.
* In ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'', pornography is now common on normal TV. The channel is fittingly named ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Masturbation Channel]]''.
-->'''Frito:''' ''[Joe knocks at his door]'' Go away, I'm 'bating!
* ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'': The basis of this movie is that everyone tells the absolute truth all the time. So when Mark shows up early for a blind date with Allison she tells him she's just been masturbating.
* ''Film/InTheCut'': Frannie masturbates while thinking about Malloy, the detective who came by her apartment earlier to tell her about the murder investigation. In her fantasies, she also suspects Malloy could be the same man [[spoiler: she observed getting a blow job from the murder victim--in other words, the murderer himself]].
* ''Film/JackAndDiane'': Jack masturbates in bed at one point, then calls Diane (or so she thinks) and tries to get her into cyber sex. It turns out to be Diane's twin sister Karen on the line. Diane later does it the same way too.
* Mentioned very matter-of-factly in both the book and [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie version]] of ''Film/{{Jarhead}}''.
-->'''Swoff:''' Suggested techniques for the Marine to use in the avoidance of boredom and loneliness: Masturbation. Rereading of letters from unfaithful wives and girlfriends. Cleaning your rifle. Further masturbation. Rewiring Walkman. Arguing about religion and meaning of life. Discussing, in detail, every woman the Marine has ever fucked. Debating differences, such as Cuban vs. Mexican, Harleys vs. Hondas, left- vs. right-handed masturbation. Further cleaning of rifle. Studying of Filipino mail-order bride catalog. Further masturbation...
%%* Very explicit in ''Film/KenPark''.
* In ''Film/{{Kinsey}}'', several people study a video of a woman masturbating to learn more about human sexuality.
* Very brief scene in ''L.I.E.'', in which we see Howie in bed--and only from the neck up, mostly--but it's obvious what he's doing.
* ''Film/LadyMacbeth'': Alexander makes Katherine strip, then face the wall while he masturbates. Oddly enough, though this indicates he finds her attractive ''somehow'', they never actually have sex.
* In the novel and movie ''Film/LittleChildren''; Ronnie, who is a registered sex offender and pedophile, goes on a date with a cohort to suppress his urges, then he feels so awkward being with her that he drives to a playground and masturbates in front of her.
* In the 19th-Century Russian Lit parody ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', Boris 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."
* ''Film/LoveIsNotPerfect'': Adriana calls Elena and gets her to have phone sex with her.
* In ''Film/MargaritaWithAStraw'', Laila has quite a lot of sexual frustration as a result of being confined to a wheelchair, and thus engages in the occasional self-service.
* There's a scene in ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' where Creator/NaomiWatts masturbates angrily while crying. She's spiralling into depression and a fit of mad jealousy, after a roller-coaster romance with another woman ([[spoiler:which may all have been a paranoid delusion anyway]]) leaves her feeling emotionally abused.
* ''Film/NakedKiller'' delivers a two-fer with the two leads, Kitty and Nam, who had fallen for each other, jerking off simultaneously while thinking of each other.
* In ''Film/{{Operator}}'', Joe is programming an AI voiced by his wife Emily, and becomes obsessed with making it a "perfect" version of her. One sign of his increased dependence is when he masturbates while having a conversation with it, having it to repeat his name over and over. Later he and Emily are fighting and she claims that he would "fuck [the AI] if he could," at which point he looks away guiltily.
* ''Film/{{Paradise}}'' features Doc, a masturbating chimpanzee.
* The scene in ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' comes to mind. Some serious repression up until that point, to set a '''tree''' on fire.
* ''Film/PrincessCyd'': Cyd masturbates at one point, possibly while fantasizing of Katie.
* The remake of ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' recreated the original virtually shot-for-shot... except that, at the end of the peephole scene, Norman glances downward, and the sound of a closing zipper is plainly audible. Kind of obvious in retrospect.
* Vincent of ''Film/PulpFiction'' spends some time in the bathroom psyching himself up to not give in to the temptation to have sex with Mia Wallace (because she's the wife of his boss), and mentions masturbating to relieve the tension and "get over it" once he gets back home. But given Vincent's general track record of bad things happening when he goes to the bathroom during the movie, things do not end well -- Mia gets into his discarded jacket and finds his "madman" heroin, snorting it like cocaine and overdosing, leading to Vincent having to save her life or die.
* In the film ''Film/RealGenius'', the [[CoolLoser plucky charismatic underdogs]] implant a radio in the braces of the pompous, sycophantic Kent, who is already implied to have done this with a bowl full of Jell-O. Kent thinks he's being addressed by the voice of God. At the end of one transmission, [[CoolLoser Mitch]] adds, "And Kent? From now on, stop playing with yourself!" Kent wonderingly murmurs, "It ''is'' God."
* Not exactly the "military setting" described above, but: In ''Film/TheRightStuff'', the astronauts have to provide a sperm sample. The BattleaxeNurse tells them, "the best results seem to be from fantasization, followed by masturbation, followed by ejaculation." So they head to the bathroom stalls, and the [[SemperFi Marine]] starts humming ''From the Halls of Montezuma'', and the Air Force guy joins in with ''Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder''...
* In the {{Biopic}} ''Film/TheRunaways'', Sandy West tries to masturbate but complains that she cannot feel anything. Music/JoanJett suggests she think of the hottest guy she knows, but it doesn't work. Joan then suggests she think of Creator/FarrahFawcett. After switching to a shower head it works.
* The title character in ''Film/SaintRalph'' 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.
* In ''Film/{{Secretary}}'', Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal's character indulges herself while thinking of her sadomasochistic relationship with her boss.
* In ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', the main character's brother talks to the main character's wife about being single, and then takes a trip to the little boy's room to (predictably) masturbate. It doesn't help that at another part in the movie, a porn director talks about how the main reason porn is popular is so people can "cum into a napkin what they couldn't into a woman."
* The feature film ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' (based on the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' series) has a scene where a frustrated Kaylee gripes that "going on a year now, I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!" Much to the dismay of most of the crew, who were standing near her when she mentioned this:
-->'''Mal:''' Oh, GOD! [[TooMuchInformation I can't know that!]]\\
'''Jayne:''' I could stand to hear a little more.
* Scotty in ''Film/SerialMom'', who is interrupted hilariously by the Sutphins and the police after mistakenly taking his [[TheImmodestOrgasm loud orgasms]] for screams of terror. While his parents are being murdered, no less.
* In ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Elisa's morning routine includes masturbating in the bath.
* ''Film/ShowMeLove'' -- Agnes' hand-down-the-pants scene while looking at Elin's photo.
* In ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', Miggs, the prisoner in the cell next to Hannibal Lecter's, masturbates and flings his semen on Clarice Starling. It's this unforgivable "rudeness" that compels Lecter to aide Starling.
* ''The Simian Line'': Samantha Mathis watches Cindy Crawford pleasure herself.
* In ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'', the mentally disturbed Hedy masturbates after seeing her roommate have sex.
* ''Film/{{Sirens}}'': Estella catches the ruggedly handsome handyman down by the riverbank, masturbating. This is a unique example for a couple of reasons. First of all, the handyman is actually shown touching his penis, which is very rare (although since this is not a pornographic film he isn't erect). Secondly, it's a rare example of male masturbation not being played either for comedy or creepiness, as the whole movie is about sexual freedom and sexual expression.
* In ''Film/{{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]].
* The 1994 film ''Film/SpankingTheMonkey'' used masturbation as a thematic and symbolic plot device (as the title suggests). The young protagonist's sexual frustration as he cares for his convalescing mother is compounded by the fact that he never gets to successfully masturbate.
* ''Film/SurvivalOfTheDead'': The female member of the National Guard unit masturbates openly in front of her fellow soldiers because there [[SorryImGay aren't any women available]].
* There is much pitch-black comedy in the viciously depressing Korean movie ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance'' (from the director of ''Film/{{Oldboy|2003}}''). Of note here is a scene where four young men are seen masturbating together, their ears pressed to the wall to hear what they believe to be the moaning of a woman nearing climax. What they are hearing is in fact groans of pain from a young woman suffering from kidney failure.
* In ''Film/TerrorFirmer'', the protagonist, Jennifer, masturbates while picturing [[VillainousCrossdresser Casey]] shirtless, flexing his arms at the foot of her bed. Later, [[{{Squick}} she learns the truth]]...
* ''Film/{{Thelma}}'': Thelma masturbates during her erotic dream about having sex with Anya.
* Comes up in ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''. Mary tells her friends she doesn't need a man, she has a vibrator. Later, Ted's friend encourages him to "spank the monkey" before his big date. This doesn't lead to the main character getting caught with his pants down, but to the movie's signature hair gel scene.
* Diane Lane masturbates while thinking about her recent tryst with Oliver Martinez in ''Film/{{Unfaithful}}''.
* In ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'', Arthur Stuart is caught masturbating by his father, and is ''kicked out of the house'' for his perceived crime. It's unclear whether the father just took a really dim view of masturbation in general, or if he noticed that his son was looking at a homoerotic image.
* ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'': Claire masturbates while fantasizing about The White Orchid in bed.
* Mentioned in ''Film/WonderWoman2017''. Steve Trevor asks Diana how she knows about the pleasures of the flesh if she lives on an island with only women. She holds up her hand and he instantly understands.
* ''Film/YourFriendsAndNeighbors'': In his first scene, Barry cheerfully admits to a colleague that his favourite sexual partner is "himself", and he finds masturbating more pleasurable than sex with any woman, including his wife. At the end of the film [[spoiler:after he and his wife split up, he is [[TheLoinsSleepTonight no longer able to achieve an erection]].]]
* In the Israeli film ''Yossi'' the (closeted) title character is shown masturbating to soft-core gay porn. It's not PlayedForLaughs, but rather shows how lonely and repressed he is.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'':
** As Gene Wilder's Frederick boards the train from New York he overhears a married couple arguing behind him:
--->'''Woman:''' Harry, he's been at it again.\\
'''Man:''' So, what do you want me to do about it?\\
'''Woman:''' Every day!\\
'''Man:''' Let him! Let him!
** When Frederick arrives in Transylvania via train, he overhears another couple having the same argument... in German.
** Later in the film, Frederick is disconsolate after his attempt to re-animate the Monster is (he believes) unsuccessful.
--->'''Igor:''' You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him, the things he'd say to me.\\
'''Frederick:''' ''[interested]'' What did he say?\\
'''Igor:''' "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
* ''Film/YourHighness'': Leezar is confident he can perform with Belladonna as he's "tested" himself this way. Near the end, Thadeous was also preparing for this when Fabious comes in.
* Nick Twisp does this off-screen right within the first 30 seconds of ''Film/YouthInRevolt''.
* In the sex-ridden ''Film/YTuMamaTambien'', the two male protagonists are quite open about their bodies and sexual functions together and have a dual wank on the diving boards by the pool. A mysterious white liquid then falls in the water.
* In ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'', the two title characters have a discussion about male versus female masturbation:
-->'''Zack:''' How come you get to be all ComicStrip/BuckRogers, having sex in the 25th century with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis, and I'm stuck with a bottle of Jergen's in the bathroom?\\
'''Miri:''' Holy Bejeesus, tell me you don't use my Jergen's to whack it in our bathroom.\\
'''Zack:''' No, you know what I do? I light a bunch of candles, and I sprawl out on my sheets, and I listen to Music/{{Sting}}. No, I'm a guy. You give me two Popsicle sticks and a rubber band and I'll find a way to fuck it, like a filthy Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}!
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* One ''LightNovel/EightySixEightySix'' fanfic, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31867417 "the case of the missing garter belt"]], has both Lena and Shin fantasizing to thoughts of the other after he makes his LoveConfession to her in Volume 7.
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Toga is tempted to do this after seeing a Rocket Racer's bloody, mangled hand courtesy of Peter's DeadlyDodging. She manages to control her urges to make her getaway.
%%* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3070350/1/Another_Mans_Cage Another Man's Cage]]'' by Dawn Felagund. This troper was inspired to rename one of the characters Johnny Appleseed.
* In ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'', Yancy ends up touching herself down there after experiencing an EroticDream of her recalling TheirFirstTime with Nate. Thanks to not having done this before, however, she initially ends up scared that she'll eventually be consumed by her own lust. It takes her talking to Rosa for her to realize that it's a natural thing to do.
* ''Fanfic/AuroraFalls'': Apparently, Alterra or one of its employees carries around blueprints for an 'emotional recreation device.' Al, upon fabricating one, quips "IllBeInMyBunk". Apparently, [[ICallItVera He calls it]] [[ShoutOut "Inflatable]] [[Series/RedDwarf Ingrid."]]
* A humourous fanfic by the creators of ''Fanfic/BagEnders'' featured an adolescent Pippin being upset because his mother had told him kittens would die if he masturbated and he'd found a dead kitten in the garden and been convinced she was right. Merry gave him a kitten so he could watch it and stop if the kitten started looking ill to prove it wasn't true. Unfortunately, Pippin couldn't bring himself to do it with the kitten staring at him, so Merry ended up spending several evenings sitting in the next room and watching the kitten for him.
* Shows up in ''Fanfic/TheBestOfAllPossibleWorlds'', as Creator/{{Voltaire}} mentions he often resorted to this to help him through puberty. This comes up when he finds out [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Celestia]] has cast a spell to pretty much [[{{Unperson}} unperson]] the concept from Equestria ([[BreadEggsMilkSquick along with the concept of murder]]).
* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Happens to Bolt in two stories.
** In “The Imaginary Letters,” the dog mentions using hotel throw pillows and a chair leg as a substitute for the absent Mittens.
** In “The Cameo,” it’s implied that the issue of ''Dog Fancy'' magazine Bolt uses as a TV show prop ends up in his trailer for self-stimulation purposes. The dog in the centerfold is even named Rosie.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12642602/1/Caught Caught]]'' revolves around one of Lincoln's sisters accidentally walking in on him supposedly doing this. It's revealed at the end that he was actually trying to get a pen to work.
* In ''Fanfic/ChristianPotterChandler'', Christopher (as in, preteen Chris-chan) is a master of danger wanking.
* In ''[[FanFic.ChristianWestonChandlerInSurvivorKujiraJima Christian Weston Chandler in Survivor: Kujira-Jima]]'', Chris-chan lasts maybe two minutes into the first episode before jacking it in his pants. Incorrectly.
* Humorously mentioned as "private dancing" in an ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' mini-story, where it is usually accompanied by the sound of Music/BillyIdol's "Dancing With Myself" (according to the characters). "Grouchy And The Love Doll" is about Grouchy having some private fun with [[CompanionCube his love doll]] -- until [[PygmalionPlot the doll comes to life]].
* ''Fanfic/TheEndOfTheWorld'': Heavily implied when Effie briefly mentions that posters of Dazzle, an attractive District 1 victor, are often found hanging over the beds of teenaged boys.
* Team RWBY in ''Fanfic/FlamesShade'' has a rule where a sock on a door handle means it's inadvisable to enter the room because someone (usually Yang or Blake) is doing this.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' lemon fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3043801/1 A Glass of Wine]]'' has Asuka calming an anxious and embarrassed Hikari that "taking care of herself" will get rid of her wet dreams since such dreams are indicators that her brain is craving for an orgasm. Hikari is initially against the idea (no surprise there, knowing her character) until Asuka finishes the job herself. For the cast's most innocent girl.
-->'''Asuka:''' Now, if you're smart you'll take doctor Soryu's prescription and apply liberally until the symptoms go away.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3951749/28/Harry-Potter-and-the-Quantum-Leap Harry Potter and the Quantum Leap]]'':
-->'''Fred:''' I don't think [Hermione] likes you like that, Ron, so I guess that hand gesture is all you'll be doing tonight.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12465642/3/Harry-Potter-and-the-Order-of-the-Lily Harry Potter and the Order of the Lily]]'':
-->Helen suggested that patience was a virtue.\\
Hermione retorted that virtuosity was much more important than virtue.\\
Richard suggested that if she wasn't virtuous any longer, he should definitely meet the cause. He nearly crashed when, instead of blushing and stammering, Hermione offered him her hand instead, saying "Daddy, meet my fingers."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11101063/6/Hermione-s-Brilliant-Idea Hermione's Brilliant Idea]]'' Harry asks if Hermione masturbates. After she says yes, he mentions using the shower for his own self-gratification.
* Implied in the ending of the ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' mini-story "Smurfette's Artistry", as Smurfette after her finishing the nude painting of Hero [[IllBeInMyBunk takes the painting with her into her own bedroom]].
* In ''Fanfic/JustAChild'', Kobayashi engages in some self-pleasure whilst thinking about [[spoiler: Tohru eating her out.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12089693/4/The-Last-Straw The Last Straw]]'' Harry realizes his true sexuality while masturbating to gay porn.
* In the dreaded ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', Lupin is caught "masticating" in the bath to a video that he and Snape took of Ebony. Later on, she says that he "MASTABATED (c is dat speld rong)". ([[AskAStupidQuestion Yes.]])
* Orochimaru's initial response in ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'' to having his soul arms removed:
-->'''Orochimaru:''' No, now alone time is useless!
* ''Fanfic/PeopleLikeUs'': Happens enough in the story to warrant its own tag.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic communities refer to it as "handshipping". On one board, there was an actual flame war between handshippers and the "other-handshippers", which lead to the obvious joke.
* Comes up in ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'', ranging from Ginny teaching Luna how to do it by stripping down to ''show'' her what to do to [[spoiler:Harry seducing Demelza into a mutual session of it in the Quidditch changing rooms; Ginny and Luna even pleasure each other as a precursor to an end-of-term orgy in chapter 39, and Fleur pleasures Harry while feeding him before they have actual sex in chapter 48]].
* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'':
** Weiss attempts this, only to partway through gets interrupted by Pyrrha. It's one of the earliest scenes that show that Weiss is attracted to Blake.
** Yang tries to fantasize about [[spoiler:Weiss]] but is stopped by memories of [[spoiler:how Weiss loves Blake, not her]].
* ''Fanfic/SteelSoulSaga'': Discussed by Apple Bloom, but not really understanding what she means, with her brother and Sweetie Belle's sister, as a way to shock Sweetie Belle who's [[NotListeningToMeAreYou not paying attention]]:
--> After a moment, the yellow filly cleared her throat. “Hey, did ya’ll know Big Mac is cloppen’ ta pictures of Rarity?”\\
Sweetie Belle shrugged.\\
“Okay, she’s officially out of it.”\\
Scootaloo nodded. “I don’t even know what clopping is, but it gets all those older ponies upset when I talk about it. OY! SWEETIE BELLE! YOU IN THERE?”\\
The unicorn glanced up. “Hmm? Oh, sorry. Hydrodynamic is important.”
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9631998/9/The-Thorny-Rose The Thorny Rose]]'':
-->'''Pettigrew:''' Oh, look, it's little Percy. Still masturbating using those dirty magazines when everybody thinks you're studying?
* In ''Fanfic/UnNatural'', Martha does this in on scene, but she finds it unpleasant due to the huge amount of self-loathing and {{gayngst}} she feels.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8552991/1/XXY-Evolution XXY:Evolution]]'', where most of the characters are [[RuleSixtyThree genderbend]], Destiny (still female) found Male!Rogue's PornStash under his bed. She realize what he does with them, considering his mutant power makes it difficult for him to get a girlfriend.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWebOfTheSpiderMan'', Flash accuses Peter of "late night browsing" when he falls asleep on the bus. Peter had only been watching Website/YouTube videos last night, but he admits that it's not like he's ''never'' done it.
-->The ribbing was still ''really'' annoying though. What made it worse this time was that he wasn't all wrong. Y-You mean, of course he was wrong about what he was insinuating you were looking up, you'd never, well, you mean not never, like Uncle Ben said you were a growing young man and your body...
* ''{{Franchise/Firefly}}'':
** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6384754 Batteries]]'', Kaylee learns she isn’t the only one putting things that run on batteries “twixt her nethers” as she said it in the film. River interrupts her and Simon to say something ran out of batteries and Kaylee realizes River has been secretly using her sex toy. Simon and Mal, who walks in later, both humorously think it’s a “power drill”.
** River’s AccidentalPervert thing in the film has actually spawned several fics that mention things. ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7030599/1/The-Talk The Talk]]'' has Simon telling River she can’t keep spying on them having sex and River says it “feels good” but agrees not to. After, though, she asks Kaylee to take her “toy shopping” next time they dock.
** In “[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3366505/1/ Maintenance]]”, Jayne finds out his sister made a toy from a mold of his manhood made while drunk one night. By the end of the story, River’s using one when she exhausts Jayne himself.
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* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' features both female and male leads doing this; [[{{Bowdlerise}} more often in the manga]], and more often the girl. She states that there are two types of masturbation: the "good" kind, doing it to relieve frustration and the "bad" kind, doing it out of boredom. She is then shown making a tally of the dozens of times she's done the "bad" kind in the last few weeks.
* Farnese in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is shown to be turned on by people burning alive to the point where she spends some "alone time" thinking very hard about that. ''Berserk'' is like that.
* Tajima from ''Manga/BigWindup'' has a habit of talking about his masturbation habits in front of others, much to the chagrin of his friends.
* Bird's Nest does this after running into Leo juggling for a crowd on the street in ''Manga/CopernicusBreathing''.
%%* Implied in ''Manga/DeathNote''. L's says it's normal for an 18-year-old boy.
* ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend'': Natsuo happens to see Hina masturbating while muttering her ex-boyfriend's name.
* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', Shinji does this [[spoiler:[[DudeShesLikeInAComa over Asuka's comatose body.]]]] With an indiscretion shot of his creamed hand... yeech!
--> [[PrecisionFStrike "I'm so fucked up..."]]
* In episode 18 of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Excel tries to pull a coin from inside a vending machine, when she succeeds Hyatt asks if this is the result of the "finger training" excel practices every night to which Excel asks her to shut up.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has Gates, who's an AxCrazy rapist {{ephebophile}} that is shown to masturbate to animal nature videos.
** While the ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' anime only hints towards Tessa having an EroticDream after sneaking into Sousuke's bed, the ''Sigma'' manga goes a step further by having Tessa slide a hand between her legs and start, uh, rubbing during said dream.
--->'''Sousuke:''' ... I don't want to sleep under the same roof as the Captain anymore.
* Both husband Makoto and wife Yura are shown to do this in ''Manga/FutariEcchi''. Makoto does it out of frustration at not having been able to have sex with Yura for several days. Yura does it on her sister's advice to teach herself "what feels good."
* In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', Héloise is shown masturbating while thinking about the Count and the poison ring he gave her. {{Squick}}.
* Because ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' is a manga/anime about {{Otaku}}, it features the characters reading or talking about {{Doujinshi}}. Most Doujinshi are erotic, and the series alludes (or more than alludes) to several of the main characters (male and female alike), ah, getting use out of them for the sake of comedy.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Nanako finds a lot of objects in Onizuka's apartment that show he masturbates frequently, even using an instant noodle cup. Fuyutsuki and others even stumble on Onizuka masturbating while watching a porn movie, and he tries his best to tell them it's NotWhatItLooksLike. He hasn't changed much since [[Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears he was a teenager]].
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Played for laughs near the end of the ''[[BeachEpisode "Drifters of the Dead"]]'' OVA special. The morning after [[{{Tsundere}} Saya]] recovers from her hallucination, she awakes to find [[LoveInterest Hirano]] still under the effects -- and frantically humping a broomstick, thinking it was her!
* ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'' has one of the most {{Squick}}-tastic examples ever. Ichi cuts his palm with a knife and masturbates to the sight of his favorite prostitute being beaten and raped by her husband.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': The ''very first scene'' takes place right after the protagonist, [[LovableSexManiac Jolyne Cujoh]], gets caught masturbating by one of the prison guards.
* In ''Manga/KoeDeOshigoto'', Kanna is scolded for ''not'' doing this after taking home some examples of eroge... for training purposes, of course. What makes it funny is that she managed to... achieve the same effect without actually involving her hands or any physical stimulation whatsoever. Everyone else, like Motoki, are all straighter cases, and they use their hands.
* In episode 4 of ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'', Taichi tells Inaba a secret that he hoped to take to the grave with him after she reveals that she worries a lot and can't trust anyone. [[spoiler: He said he masturbated to pictures of her, as well as Iori and Yui.]] Inaba seems shocked at first, but then starts laughing. At the end of the episode, she also reveals one of her secrets, [[spoiler: she did the same thing with his picture.]]
* ''Manga/LoveHina'': Shortly after Kitsune allows Keitaro to grope her in exchange for a month's rent, Naru catches him in his boxers with a box of tissues next to him. Not too difficult to guess what he was about to do.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'':
** The 61.5 and 66.5 omake chapters both end with Usui dry-humping his mattress after having two separate [[EroticDream wet dreams]] [[MsFanservice about Himegami.]]
** Love Espada does it during chapter 90, by glomping Takeru from behind to rub his crotch. Takeru's mind [[BlankWhiteEyes goes blank]], so Espada takes advantage by shoving ''his hand'' under her skirt and [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl uses it to rub herself.]]
** In OVA 2, Ceilia gets jealous when she catches Takeru fondling Ms. Aki and uses her Inversion ability to change him into a girl. When he regains consciousness and realizes [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman what's happened]], he heads to the bathroom to take "her" new body for a spin. The audience only gets to see it from behind as she props one leg on the sink and begins thrusting her hips. It immediately [[SexyDiscretionShot cuts to the hallway]], as her moaning intensifies [[TheModestOrgasm until her voice hitches]], followed by brief silence, then a sigh of contentment.
** About halfway into the OVA, there's a brief scene of Aki masturbating in her sleep. She's shown squirming on the couch, as she rubs herself through her bikini bottom. Her moaning causes Minori to wake up from her hangover just as Aki gets herself off. Thankfully, Minori was still too drunk to notice.
* At the beginning of ''Manga/MidoriDays'', Seiji bemoans this being his fate, as his badass Delinquent status actually seems to make it ''harder'' to get a girlfriend. He specifically says being stuck "with his right hand for a girlfriend", then it happens literally. Ironically, having Midori on his hand effectively ''prevents'' him from masturbating, as she throws out all his porn. A few chapters are dedicating to Seiji attempting to relieve the built-up pressure, but FailureIsTheOnlyOption.
* ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'': As a result of Marin Kitagawa being a ShamelessFanserviceGirl, this has happened a few times to male lead Wakana Gojo:
** The first point at which it's implied is in Chapter 5 / Episode 3, after he wakes up from having an EroticDream of Kitagawa in her Shizuku-tan cosplay. When he looks under his sheets, he either had a nocturnal emission or else had to take of business himself. Shortly after when he's at school, he wonders how he can possibly face her.
** In Chapter 24 / Episode 9, she sends him a photo of herself in a swimsuit to ask for his opinion on it, which gets left as "read" on the messaging app. The next day, when she asks why he never replied to her, Gojo muses to himself that "A lot happened after seeing that photo." The anime makes this more obvious by having him look towards a box of tissues in the foreground when he states this.
** The next time in Chapter 36 / Episode 11 is far more explicit, with Gojo very clearly masturbating to thoughts of Kitagawa and saying her name after a series of awkward moments while doing a cosplay shoot at a LoveHotel [[note]]Namely, Marin wearing a skimpy succubus costume while mounting his torso in bed in order to get photos from a specific angle, until a couple in the next room over having loud sex reminds them of where they are and Gojo getting an erection. The anime ramps this up even further with the lights accidentally going out, and the two of them holding each other extremely close with the only sounds in the room being their intense heavy breathing[[/note]]. The chapter even ends with the cheeky narration "The lingering memories were amazing."
* ''Manga/OMaidensInYourSavageSeason'': As the manga explores the awkward progression towards adulthood, Izumi is caught masturbating to a movie about a woman getting molested on a public train. He just ''really'' [[RailEnthusiast loves trains]].
* The manga ''Manga/OnaniMasterKurosawa''. In translation: Kurosawa, the Master of Masturbating.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' devotes a whole episode to a tissue shortage that is disastrous because no one can masturbate. Turns out that the tissue shortage was caused by [[spoiler: the Ghosts of wasted sperm.]]
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Implied in the Web Novel version’s 83rd chapter, when while Sheryl’s relaxing in the bath, she keeps on replaying the moment Akira saved her life from a HostageSituation that day in her head. This shifts into a dramatized ImagineSpot until it barely resembles the real event, and in a bit of symbolism, the relaxing Sheryl nearly drowns three times before ending her bath.
* ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'': Kazuya often jacks off while fantasizing about his ex-girlfriend Mami. It's justified due to him being a sexually-frustrated man.
* In the fourth episode of the second season of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', the dolls said that Jun is in the toilet reading "magazines."
* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': Lain's friendship with Alice breaks down when one of the Lains spreads rumors around school that she likes to fantasize about a certain teacher while "playing with herself".
* One very disturbed individual in ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'' (that is, more disturbed than [[DysfunctionJunction all the other batshit characters]]) performed auto-fellatio while thinking about the dead young man he was out to avenge.
* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': Anna does it [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl right in front]] [[LustObject of Tanukichi]] and Ayame during episode 5. She gets so ecstatic from watching him eat her cookies, that she starts grinding the edge of the table in the student council's conference room!
* ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'': Sato is married to five different beautiful women who are ready and willing to have sex with him, [[LevelUpAtIntimacyFive which will grant him incredible power]]. He has moral objections to the whole arrangement, so he is very hesitant to cross that line. It's implied more than once that he's keeping himself in check with masturbation.
-->'''Saphir:''' ''[thinking]'' Looks like he got a load off...
* AxCrazy Sako of ''Manga/{{Upotte}}'' gets ''far'' too turned on by the heat of battle in episode 5 and fondles her magic spot out of pleasure behind a tree. Moments later, she masturbates, with the stuff visibly dripping off her hand -- er, if anthromorphized assault rifles actually can do that sort of thing.
* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': The rules of the tournament enforces it as the penalty for losing any match at rank-1, by having the loser [[ShamefulStrip strip in the ring]] and masturbate for the crowd.
* Implied a few times in ''Manga/WanderingSon'' chapters, especially when the characters have begun high school. The protagonist in particular is prone to scenes that cut to a bathroom after they've interacted with their girlfriend.
* Satou from ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'' is shown to reach for a tissue every now and then, and after discovering that [[TheInternetIsForPorn 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, [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown it does not end well]].
* Konuma Ryuuko of ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' is a nymphomaniac middle-schooler with what appears to be profound psychological damage from repeated rapes in her past, but she's such a nihilistic sociopath that even this isn't enough to make her sympathetic. Notable acts include breaking into the protagonist's apartment to masturbate and (unsuccessfully) seduce him and climaxing on a school rooftop after a bloody shooting.
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!!Examples:

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12642602/1/Caught Caught]]'' revolves around one of Lincoln's sisters accidentally walking in on him supposedly doing this. [[spoiler:It's revealed at the end that he was actually trying to get a pen to work.]]

!!List of masturbation tropes:

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* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12642602/1/Caught Caught]]'' revolves around one of Lincoln's sisters accidentally walking in on him doing this. [[spoiler: It is revealed at the end that he was only trying to get a pen to work]].

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* ''Film/{{Crush|2022}}'':
** Paige came out pretty young as a lesbian to her mom, who's surprised but also very accepting of it.
** AJ's was very low key, though her sister Gabby made a big deal of coming out at her birthday party.