Do you beat your meat or flick your bean? The masturbation episode!

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The Masturbation episode

Misty, and Frank in Berlin are joined by Effie in London to talk all about the joys and methods of making love to your very special own self. The team talks about the moral panics and history of shame surrounding a theme that is still very much taboo for many people. Did King Onan pull out or spill the seed? How often does the Crude team beat the meat, and why? Why don't we all talk about it more? Is everyone doing it?

*What we were consuming*

[Book] Dr Eric Sprankle. DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation (2024)

[Article] Euphemisms for masturbation (2023)

[Article] Origins of masturbation traced to primates 40 million years ago (2023)

[Book] Thomas W. Laqueur. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (2004)

[Academic journal] Kontula und Haavio-Manilla, "Masturbation in a generational perspective"; Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 2002. 14(2-3). 49-83.

[Academic journal] German-language study (2016) Link

[O-gap reducing services] OMGYES

[Article] Masturbation laws around the world (2013)

[Book] Samuel Auguste Tissot. A Treatise on the Curse of Onan (1758)

[Book] Anonymous. Onania (c.1712)

[Personality] Gypsy-Rose Blanchard