Try to stay hard while Achy Breaky Heart plays. All you see in your head is a mullet....

Actually you’re wrong. Kids ARE inherently sexual beings. The problem comes in when we, as adults, start laying adult thoughts, feelings, emotions, challenges on to them.

T7FFIN, must be a troll. No one who reads Jezebel can be this repressed and clueless.

I think the disconnect between your comment and the comments of others is volition - that you’re constructing masturbation as an intentionally sexual act - which for teens and adults, it is. And in that context, your gut reaction that this is wrong/sick makes sense.

nah, it’s just human instinct. you can relax.

That’s untrue—children have the same nerve endings as adults, they just don’t have the hormone cocktail. A child can easily discover what feels good by touching themselves. I think I started masturbating on purpose when I was in 3rd grade or so? I was definitely never abused.

Interstellar was an imaginary story. This was an actual event that occurred to actual people, an important chapter in one of the most significant events in the history of the world. it shaped the world you live in now whether you realize it or not. Does that give it enough conceptual angle for you?

I don’t have kids, but most of my girlfriends do, and we were all having coffee the other day when one of the ladies brought up the fact that her three year old had been totally unselfconsciously masturbating wherever and whenever she felt like it — and that my friend was still trying to figure out how to talk to her…

Truly one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever read on here.

Are you kidding? Even babies masturbate. There’s nothing wrong with that or indicative of abuse.

that’s simply wrong. Little kids can hump things because it feels good.

I have a friend who didn’t start masturbating until he was god damn 16 years old. I still can’t really comprehend it.

Same. How is possible to not discover that until you’re a teenager?

Yeah. A few years ago, my wife, kids, and I were in DC for spring break and an anti-circumcision activist kind of got in our faces. Anyway, our 10-year-old daughter was asking about why I was okay with male circumcision but not female (the inconsistency the dude was hocking me about). I said, “You know that nub on the…

Yeah, I’m not sure there’d have been pool tables in the Dixie Pig which seemed to me a bit more upmarket. And I can’t see the type one vampires playing rounds of pool in between banquets of long pork.

I had to turn the volume on my computer way up to hear that ‘jingling’...the sound of her moving around in the car were many times louder.

Eh. Assholes be assholes. In Austin we’re dealing with the deluge of people moving into “the live music capital of the world’s” downtown area and complaining so hard about said live music the city enacts noice ordinances that within a year cause some of the most cherished venues in the city to either relocate or close.

13 year old me would no doubt agree with you, but 13 year old me also thought Maximum Carnage was probably the best Spider-Man story ever.

Fair observation. Batman has been pulling on various threads of mysteries he’s encountered over the last few years (under the oversight of Scott Snyder) that have all been tied to variations on Nth metal, which somehow is tied to alternate realities.

In a different way, the same thing applies to Bill Cosby. I heard rumors about his alleged inappropriate behavior when I was in my early 20s. But again, it was whispers. And again, what was I supposed to do? Research what I heard? Take my thoughts to the authorities?