Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Laughter, Pleasure, Malice, and the Pursuit of Adult Fun
Gina Barreca, Ph.D. is Professor of English at UConn, and author of It's Not That I'm Bitter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. See full bio

Want to Cheer up AND Save Money? Masturbate!

Giving a whole new meaning to "take-out"!

Hey, I want readers, too, and since the pieces that keep appearing at the top of the "popular content" in these PT blogs have to do with masturbation, cheering up, and saving money, I thought I could grab some attention by combining all three.

Plus, I'm betting that it makes sense on the levels of deep theory and healthy choices as well: if you stay home and masturbate (presumably you ARE doing this at home, right? If you're not, you’ll need to save money for bail) then you're not out shopping or drinking or eating, thereby avoiding all sorts of other potentially problematic and costly behaviors (costly in both the literal and metaphoric senses)!

Masturbation will cheer you up (if you do it right) and viola! A sure fire new way to cope with a variety of issues without having to leave your own home! (Yes, I am indeed stressing this last point; I do feel that it is crucial and I don't want any irate responses from people who attempted to cheer themselves up on the A Train).

If Taking Care of Business doesn't actually cheer you up, at least it will relieve some stress and won't harm anybody else. Well, I hope not. I haven't actually read all the recent research, but I'm pretty confident that masturbation doesn't come with one of those warning labels announcing “Do not attempt: only to be done by a professional on a closed course.”

Perhaps a memo warning “Objects in the mirror are smaller than they appear” could be sent around, but I doubt if that will happen.

As for not spending money, masturbation saves on pesky birth control costs, child rearing costs including college tuition, dinner-date costs (except, dare I say, for take-out), divorce court costs, etc., and so is ideal for the genuinely frugal.

So save up, stay in, cheer up, and enjoy.

I, for one, am happier already. Thanks for reading.

 



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