How To Use A Sock To Jerk Off

Where Did the Trope of Men Jerking Off Into Gym Socks Come From?

You lot might think a sock goes mitt in hand with jerking off, but non anybody agrees

It'due south with reserved bewilderment that many moms of teenage boys will take to the internet and find the breadth of household objects their sons volition potentially masturbate into: Garbage cans, fruit, or as highlighted in Bridesmaids, all over their own blankets. But equally immature men age and settle into a masturbatory routine, and then too do they grow out of the merely-come up-on-the-closest-affair-available phase. It's at this point that many men discover the "2nd" utility of socks.

In similar fashion to chancing upon the pleasures of lube, the locked-door security of a long shower or the novelty of sitting on your hand until it falls asleep, information technology's during the early, exhaustive trial sessions of masturtbation that near immature men discover socks as the bang-up masturbatorial take hold of-all. After all, in teen boys' comprehensive search for things to stick their dick in, a sock checks a lot of dick-shaped boxes.

Merely since younger boys aren't sitting effectually the locker room discussing whether they discover conditioner to be a heartier lube than the more water-based shampoo, it becomes another one of those unspoken approaches to masturbation that every boy discovers on his own. It'due south never been set in rock as a shared experience — until fairly recently, at least.

According to Lauren Rosewarne, writer of Masturbation in Popular Culture: Screen, Society, Cocky, the first instances of socks and jerking off appearing in mainstream entertainment was in the 1999 Nerf Herder song, "Doin' Laundry." It appeared over again later that year in this infamous scene from American Pie:

Now, information technology's worth noting that this scene — the one that finally cemented (peradventure literally) the idea of jizzing in socks into the public consciousness — may take perpetuated the wrong use of the masturbatorial sock. In the clip to a higher place, Jason Biggs' Jim Levenstein is wearing the sock as he begins masturbating, just unless you're into massive rugburn, this isn't how near men utilise socks: The correct usage is to but have the sock within reach as yous're dancing with the one-eyed crewman, then quickly capping the open stop of the sock over the open end of your dick at the concluding second (blammo — the perfect offense). Presumably, it was simply the manager taking creative liberties to avoid nudity while emphasizing the embarrassment of the scene.

Outside of American Pie, Rosewarne adds, "Use of socks for masturbatory purposes occurs in episodes of Weeds (2005–2012), where Shane had been flushing them and blocking the plumbing, and in Misfits (2009–) where information technology'south referred to as the 'wank sock'." With all these references — and especially with a movie as pervasive as American Pie was for teen boys — it'due south no wonder that using a sock to masturbate immediately entered mainstream masturbatorial lore.

Using socks for this purpose must surely take happened before 1999, though. After all, inexpensive, mass-produced socks as we know them today offset appeared during the Industrial Revolution, so we tin only assume that at some betoken in history, a young lad stuck his dick in a sock and another revolution was built-in.

These days, the stocking jizz-paw is everywhere. Take SoloSoxxx, for example, a website defended to selling single socks to sock-masturbators. Creators Caitlin Hickey and Joel Robert Johnson have based an entire business on the feel: "[Using socks] was actually something we joked about during a very late nighttime convo," they tell me. "Information technology was definitely more of a youthful 'hide information technology from your mom' type action, only thankfully, anybody nosotros asked either confirmed they participated in or knew of the practice."

It goes without saying that the internet, humanity's funfair of unspoken shared experiences, is ripe with people discussing the topic. We've got people arguing most the pros and cons of masturbating into socks; people describing the diverse horror stories that can continue with sock usage; and even people making instructional videos that were virtually certainly filmed inside a serial killer's basement:

According to the subreddit AskMen, men who use socks do then for multiple reasons. Manifestly, information technology's primarily for easy cleanup: "A sock keeps my spray from going everywhere," says Reddit user and self-described "sock guy" southseattle77. "For guys with more than than a dribbling book of ejaculate, it keeps the mess down." Not only does it prevent ejaculate from landing on the bed, the wall or your face, they insist it as well provides an easy wipe-up for the straggling leakage.

But more than that, many men see socks as the cheap, environmentally friendly way to go — the mastabatorial equivalent of choosing cloth diapers over disposables. A tree in the rainforest doesn't live its entire life to be your cumrag, after all, and it's not like yous don't take plenty of already-stained erstwhile socks just sitting there unused.

Yet, there stands a divide. "Adults," fence non-sock users, should take better hygiene than jerking off into a sock and leaving a mass grave of stiff socks stuck to the bedchamber floor. Even after washing, they opine, wearing the same socks once again is gross (although non washing the sock and sticking your dick in information technology repeatedly is even worse). For these men, it's improve to just utilise sterile, disposable tissues, no matter how many forests have to die at their dick's expense.

Then merely as there's dry guys and lube guys, streamers and dreamers, there's too sock guys and non-sock guys. Nosotros can cull to see this equally nonetheless another sectionalization betwixt us, or we can be humbled by the unproblematic human fact that, hey, we all jerk off, one way or another. Some of us jerk off into socks; some of us wiggle off into tissues. And some of us jerk off into toilets. Or garbage cans. Or T-shirts. Or laundry piles. Or plants. Let's be honest, we'll wiggle off into anything.

With that in mind, 99 times out of 100, the sock seems like the least offensive way to go.

Quinn Myers

Quinn Myers is a staff writer at MEL. He reports on internet culture, technology, wellness, masculinity and the communities that flourish within.