Tuesday 22 April 2008

Masturbation

Masturbation isn’t one of those topics that you can discuss in a wide variety of situations. Maybe you laugh about how much you use your vibrator with friends, and you’re partner knows you do it, but they don’t know every last detail! It’s usually confined to the locked bedroom door, with you and your hand!
However there is a surprising amount of songs that allude or directly talk about masturbation.
Such as A Perfect Circle: Thinking of You

Lying all alone and restless unable to lose this image
Sleepless, unable to focus on anything but your surrender
Tuggin' a rythm to the vision that's in my head
Tuggin a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes
that unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and sweatin with a look on your face like
Sweet Revelation Sweet Surrender
surrender, surrender, surrender
Tuggin' a rythm to the vision that's in my head
Tuggin a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes
that unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakeable sound I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent and Sweatin'
With a look on your face like
Sweet revelation, Sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation, Sweet
Thinking of you, thinking of you
Thinking...

This song never uses the word masturbation but the line “tuggin a rhythm to the vision in my head” couldn’t be more plain to anyone with the notion of male anatomy!

Go to http://www.411mania.com/music/columns/49474 for a list of popular songs that allude to masturbation.

A well known myth from earlier decades like the 1950’s is that masturbating makes you go blind. This myth populated because mother’s did not want their little boys “doing that” or their husbands! It was thought to be vulgar and crude and even sex wasn’t to be enjoyed, it was for procreation! Interestingly Alice Cooper’s song I’m Your Gun incorporates this idea “It'll fog your little specs Til you think you're going blind.” This doesn’t seem to be a song about masturbation but more about sex. I just thought it interesting that this artist decided to include a pun about past ideas of masturbation.

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