![]() Joe is a sad-sack stuck in two repeating loops. “The problem with this fantasy was that it was hard to get the wall right.” Obviously, I’m not the only one: here are ten novels with scenes that portray masturbation exceptionally well. My interest in both ambivalence and desire-fueled narrative distortion is one reason I wrote a novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach, preoccupied with masturbatory fantasy. Both the character masturbating and the reader reading are made aware-often uncomfortably-of both the locked box of their own minds and the fact that they’re participating in something universal. These scenes are ambivalent, offering evidence of our self-sufficiency and searing need for other people, our capacity for both empathy and objectification. ![]() But there are always other desires caught up in the sexual and masturbation becomes an act of boredom, loneliness, depression, love, excitement, fury, sorrow, celebration, grief, insomnia-sometimes all at once. A character negotiates with what they want, and how they want it. At first glance, a masturbation scene is uncluttered: a monologue on a bare stage.
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