# Dear BigT... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-bigt/605923 "2011-12-12T17:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-bigt/605923/16 "2011-12-12T20:18:41Z")
> [@Have you ever used your sock to masturbate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-used-your-sock-to-masturbate/587846/12): > > Well, I learned to masturbate from a book–a book telling me about the horrors of it called _God, Sex, and Me_ or similar. It even said it was okay to discuss it since anyone would discover it on their own anyways. I hadn’t. And it took me an hour of experimenting for it to happen the first time. > > The reason I bring that up is that it didn’t go into cleanup, but it did mention wet dreams, and it discussed how, if you woke up with it, you didn’t have to clean up because your body would absorb it by morning. > > So I was always under the impression that it would clean itself up. The first few times are always tricky. I always did it next to a table so I could rest the dirty magazine on top of it while having the instructional guide in my free hand for easy reference. After awhile I got the hang of it and gave the manual back to my dad (one proud day, maybe I can pass it on to a son of my own). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-bigt/605923)._