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I know two women who preferred this approach. To see if for real is to appreciate it's swan-like qualities - the arched neck, the legs paddling under water.

It's a metaphor for her sexual repression.
GAH

betcha the MPAA woulda had a problem with the "belly up" approach

Maybe she's doing the female version of "The Stranger."

I have no desire to see this movie. It just looks boring. Ballerina angst and drama? It's been done. Probably better.

I think they do it that way in movies because it's less graphic. You can't really see what's happening.

I can't imagine why anyone would do this in real life.

Maybe the onset of blindness isn't as scary when your head is pressed into a pillow?

In my ballet class, we used a similar stretch. (No, our hands were not under our bodies, pervs!) We would lay on our stomachs, turn out our legs (from the hips!) and the soles of our feet would touch. It was a wonderful hip stretch, that facilitated flexibility. So...for a ballerina, this method of masturbation might be preferable.

Just sayin’

Good use of the pillow though.

"Shit - it’s hard enough to get yourself off when a guy rails you from behind"

Maybe YOU are doing it wrong! Ever think of THAT? Hmmmmm?

I hope she's not planning on wearing those panties for the rest of the day.

No, you are hoping she will wear them for the rest of the WEEK. Perv.

Oh hey, didn't we see this approach used to great effect in SWF way back in yesteryear? I seem to recall some hot Ally Sheedy action. (too lazy to look it up)

Am I the only person who masturbates in lots of different positions?

"Variety is the spice of life" is an idiom for a REASON, y'all.

I go out of town for a few days and come back to find what? Nothing but smutty pictures and masturbation talk.

God, I love you people.

I see nothing wrong with her technique. I've never actually watched a girl masturbate (except in porn) but when I first started as a young lad there were a very wide variety of ways I tried to perfect the act.

I think Dan Savage would disapprove of your disapproval.

Erm...I'm gonna disagree. This position works. It's not the only way, but it can certainly be effective. You've got the pressure from below and from on top.

Let's throw this one out to Dr. Pisaster!

But... But... It looks so awkward! Okay. Clearly I need to branch out. I'm willing to try anything once, so I guess I got some experimentin' to do.

You’re doing it wrong.

Depends on whether or not it works.

BTW, what's with the rabbit in the background?

I'm surprised there was no pillow. Another word for pillow is "Catholic vibrator".

Courtney from age 12-14 co-signs this comment.

Ally Sheedy equals neither Bridget Fonda nor Jennifer Jason Leigh...

Just sayin'.

And to add, that position works really well if you are currently looking at visual aids that are on the bed. It's hard to hold stuff over your face with one hand and use the other hand while lying on your back.

Senor Wences?

This is the way you masturbate when you're in your college dorm with your roommate and you have to get off somehow but you don't exactly want her to know what you are doing so you pretend to be sleeping on your stomach when really you're just masturbating uncomfortably.

It's called TMS (Traumatic masturbatory syndrome). Mainly affects males but according to this site, females also suffer from it.

http://healthystrokes.com/index.html

First off, I know women who do it like that. I won't embarrass anyone, but it's not THAT uncommon.

Also, if she IS doing it wrong, that's kinda the point. It points to her alienation from her own sexual side and how the manifestation of that sexuality is animalistic and uncomfortable.

That said, I have no idea how you can be bored during that movie. Or how you can think Natalie Portman did anything but completely own the screen for however long that movie was. That performance was perfect.

Uh, YEAH. It works. Very well.

Groundloop, you just made me spit Snapple onto my computer monitor. Amazing.

I give this thread 5 stars.

That's...in the movie? Damn, I don't think that's something I want to watch with anyone else in the room. I get uncomfortable watching movies (with other people) where people KISS really passionately. This would have me all "Oh look out the window! there's AIR!" or whatever to distract from the discomfort.
Posted by: Figgy at February 8, 2011 2:24 PM

Hahaha oh man I'm with you on that Figgy! I am really good at changing the subject RIGHT as two people are kissing.

As for her technique, there's a time and place for everything people. ;)

I wasn't aware that there was a "right" way to do it. If doing it on your stomach is wrong, I don't want to be right. It's fucking incredible.

Nicole Kidman ruined this move for me in Margot at the Wedding. I myself have tried it a few times to no avail, but I can see it working in theory. For some reason, I really want to know this can work. I want to believe!

As for all of the pillow discussion, if you watch the scene, which I have, she squeezes a bunch of her bedding between her legs before making the flip. Ostensibly there should be a lump of blankets right at the sweet spot.

A fricking men, Skyler Durden. When you're just starting to learn how to masturbate, nothing beats the bunched-up sheets riiiight at the sweet spot. Not even remotely enough room to get a hand in there, just grind away.

Guaranteed to leave you in a sweatier mess than any other method!

I'm picturing all of you trying this method. All of you. It's like a giant human centipede but everyone is connected through sexual Wi-fi. I've never been so aroused and so completely nauseous at the same time.

I haven't seen the movie so this is mainly about this column.
She's not doing it wrong. There is no such thing as doing it wrong if it feels good. And fuck you for shaming her and anyone else who enjoys touching themselves in a way that you don't prefer.

I virtually never laugh out loud from reading (I wish I did).

Groundloop's comment still has me losing my shit.

Fuck me.

I second the love for this thread.

And fiftieth (rough guess) my acceptance of that position.

Granted most of the people who've commented here appear not to have seen the film, but this is a very unfortunate screenshot of the scene in question and furthermore this post is bullshit. NP was grinding the bed animalistically and awkwardly; signifying a tumultuos sexual transformation in parallel with the transformation of her character she necessarily had to make to become the black swan. She also dreamt Kunislingus went to work on her. Got something to say about that because you like to be fucked by men (except from behind)?

Meh. I think she's doing it "fine". I remember masturbating like that when I was a kid and first figured out how to twiddle my pre-pubescent nethers. I found it a bit jarring because she was so frail and child-like in the film, and seeing as that was how I got myself off as a child (when I didn't know any better) I thought it made the right impact. There is no "wrong" way to masturbate. If you need to shove a stuffed panda up your ass while playing church hymns on a recorder, then fuck yeah. Power to you. Whatever works, eh?

Zeke for the win with the phrase frog wanking.

All I care about is only here at Pajiba do I walk into the loving arms of other indignant weirdos who fucking hated this boring arse movie. Ever tried watching someone look like they're constipated and concerned about it for two hours? I have, and now you have too.

Uh excusez-moi, I happen to masturbate like that from time to time and it feels fucking phenomenal.

Yeah...gotta agree with King here. And I'm a little disappointed with Pajiba about this. A) it feels cheap and B) you've got this great dirty talk column which encourages us all to enjoy our bodies and sex and not feel ashamed as long as it feels good, and then you say 'you're doing it wrong'? Great message.

I'm trying to take it as tongue in cheek, but if it is it failed.

I masturbate like this all the time! I actually prefer it because you can get your whole body into it, moving your hips, really getting into a rhythm that I want. That makes ME feel good. When I'm having sex with guys, they only get the rhythm and pace down right every once in awhile. But when I masturbate like this, I can do it the way I want every single time.

I'm pretty happy I see others like it too. I was afraid I was the only one after reading this post.

Shit - it’s hard enough to get yourself off when a guy rails you from behind, let alone with your pelvis mashed down on the mattress.
I also like it from behind. And from behind doesn't necessarily imply anal. I love vaginal sex from behind.

Whoo, posting this comment is making me all hot and bothered. Thank goodness my boyfriend is coming home in half an hour. Yay snow days!

How does masturbating make you a better ballerina? Ballet is a very difficult art that is distilled from hard work. Ballet becomes art because it the fruit produced by reason when it controls, perfects and disciplines passion.

Looks like Hollywood is up to their old tricks trying to "uproot" the faith and morals of the largely female audience. It is from these faith and morals that beautiful forms of art like the ballet were brought into this world.

True art is the fruit of mortality. This is why ballet originated in pre-french revolution France and was perfected in pre-Bolshevik Russia under the tutelage of the Orthodox Christian Tzar.

Is it any wonder that great art is not made in this age. In this age any pornography or crap can be passed off as art but it is not art. Check out today's "performance artists" for the ruination of art. Some of them even go to the bathroom on stage and call it art! This is why all the world's really great art happened before the enlightenment. This film is crap and is yet another salvo against true art.