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Movie Masturbation Scenes, Ranked


It’s been 25 years since Paul Weitz showed one of the goofiest ways to beat off in American Pie.

There’s still an overall discomfort with acknowledging personal sexual gratification, and it’s mainly portrayed in comedies as something aberrant or worth mocking; see Brad (Judge Reinhold) imagining Phoebe Cates’s character unclasping her red bikini top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High(1982) or Cameron Diaz using Ben Stiller’s “hair gel” in There’s Something About Mary(1998). John Cameron Mitchell’s film takes audiences inside an underground soirée nicknamed Shortbus, a vibrant mecca of personal, sexual, and creative freedom hosted by drag artist Justin Bond. Saltburn has a double dose of weird and unforgettable masturbation scenes, both courtesy of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan),a maniacal voyeur enamored with his blue-blooded Oxford University classmate Felix (Jacob Elordi).

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