Public Onanism

I suppose a'body can only do so much wanking of a kind before it must become wanking of another kind. Call this the second rule of wanking. Masturbation, for instance, after a while, must become sex. Though, admittedly, sex can be much more productive, and as such, might not deserve to be called wanking at all-I do wonder if much of the sex that's happening in the world these days, what with so much of common culture playing up it's impersonal aspects, isn't in actuality wanking for two.

I feel that, in a similar way, the wanking I do everyday-in the shower, on the bus, standing at the water cooler, making dinner-though of a mental kind and completely personal, is conforming to the second rule of wanking. Whereas before I was happy to simply think wanky thoughts over the course of my day, now I feel the wanking must be extended to a more social, albiet still impersonal, forum: that of the blog.

Of course, I wouldn't be doing this at all if it weren't for the first rule of wanking, to wit: Wanking's done best when it makes the heart sing.

To wanking,
ALW