# Do women really get off from sitting on washing machines? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 30, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521 "2025-07-30T18:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/81 "2025-08-01T16:19:18Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > I’ve felt utter terror on the back of a motorcycle. My first wife admitted she got off while riding on the back of a motorcycle. However, she also admitted she was drunk at the time, so that may have cut down on the amount of terror. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/82 "2025-08-01T16:21:34Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Many ‘laundry rooms’ are in the bathroom nowadays. Mine doubles as the litter-box room, so kinda a bathroom? Not a sexy place. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/83 "2025-08-01T17:06:41Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > My first wife admitted she got off while riding on the back of a motorcycle. However, she also admitted she was drunk at the time, so that may have cut down on the amount of terror. My wife and I have done some long rides, 2-up. Twice we did 1,000+ miles in 24 hours. If she ever got sexually excited back there, she never informed me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/84 "2025-08-01T17:11:04Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > My first wife admitted she got off while riding on the back of a motorcycle. Its already been established in this thread that your wife was lying just to impress you. That unless a testimonial from some woman on this board states that it has happened to them it means nothing coming from a man. Its been established as fact. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/85 "2025-08-01T19:30:49Z")
There is a personal stimulator designed to be installed in the seat of a motorcycle that can be synced to the engine speed called VibeRider. Personally I would never ruin a perfectly good seat for this, but different strokes and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/87 "2025-08-02T02:33:55Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > I’ve felt utter terror on the back of a motorcycle. And when riding a horse and the beast started trotting instead of ambling along. I can assure you, neither experience was arousing in the slightest. More likely those are ‘man things’ that they cluelessly fantasize women, too, enjoy. You seem to be asserting that women are liars, and that they lie about their experiences on motorcycles. And also that feminist writers and illustrators cluelessly fantasize women. Or perhaps your post is just a ‘women thing’ in which you cluelessly fantasize about men? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/88 "2025-08-02T02:39:11Z")
Wouldn’t that be unsafe? Possibly not legal? Yeah, no…I’m not _riding on that!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/89 "2025-08-02T03:09:33Z")
The Master tackles the question of “psychic orgasms.” > **[Can some people have orgasms without genital stimulation?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343674/can-some-people-have-orgasms-without-genital-stimulation)** ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/90 "2025-08-02T06:50:14Z")
IIRC, Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, once claimed to have mentally masturbated to orgasm in a van riding to a gig, and her bandmates were none the wiser. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/91 "2025-08-02T10:27:22Z")
Thing is if somebody is terrified of riding on a motorcycle or horse, it basically disqualifies them as an example on this subject either way since the _issue_ is their terror; not whether or not such things are potentially “stimulating”. That doesn’t mean somebody who _isn’t_ terrified might feel differently. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/92 "2025-08-04T06:42:42Z")
Do women really get off from sitting on a washing machine? Yes, absolutely. After all, they can’t stay up there forever. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/93 "2025-08-04T08:04:28Z")
You don’t get down from a washing machine, you get down from a duck. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/94 "2025-08-04T09:39:27Z")
I’m wondering if older models of washing machines used to vibrate a lot more. Also, in my limited experience of horseback riding the sensation is less “gentle vibration” and more “repeated hard thwacks to one’s undercarriage”. And not to kink-shame here but I’m pretty sure most people don’t find the latter particularly sensual. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/95 "2025-08-04T13:01:56Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > I’ve seen the meme illustrated in two ways: sitting on the washing machine with her legs tightly clenched (that includes a feminist cartoonist that had nothing interesting to say to me), and leaning in to a vertical corner of the machine (that was implied rather than depicted). I thought the meme was a woman puts her crotch in the corner & the vibrations tingle her lady bits; however, I don’t think I’ve lived anywhere that is possible. The side of the washer was up against the dryer, a wall, or the laundry room tub sink meaning there is no accessible corner of the washing machine. Oh wait, I think the community washers in the basement of the apartment building I used to live in had an accessible corner but then you’re dealing with (the extra thrill of?) getting caught by a neighbor who wants to wash their dirty clothes. Using a front/top edge would probably involve at least a step stool & a bit of contorting for women of average height. > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > You don’t get down from a washing machine, you get down from a duck. Why a duck, why not a chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/96 "2025-08-04T16:23:10Z")
Have a friend direct you to a site which specializes in pornographic videos, and type in “washing machine”. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/97 "2025-08-04T17:45:08Z")
Oh, yeah…now _there_ is a reliable source! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/98 "2025-08-04T22:36:43Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I’ve read of “man things” of wide variety: soldiers who fought over sessions with the barracks floor buffer, lonely men who died from rolling themselves up in carpets, the many implements inserted posteriorly and saved for posterity on X-ray film, etc. Just curious - do we have any information with regards to whether women do this stuff as aggressively or uh, creatively, as men? Like all those lists of things that have been found up people’s asses - is it equally distributed by sex? I’m guessing not. But I also wonder if it’s just a function of the fact that nothing is as good as a vibrator. A washing machine on spin cycle just sounds like yet another thing that is inferior to a vibrator. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/99 "2025-08-04T23:06:55Z")
“Traditionally” women were shamed for being sexual in any form at all (yet required to be Hollywood Godess-like sexual attractors of men: Heaven help anyone trying to walk _that_ tightrope); while men, though permitted to be sexual beings, were shamed for not having the power and ability to have women just throwing themselves at their feet. Masturbating, homosexuality, hiring prostitutes, etc.; all resorts of losers. Women, OTOH, required the resort of deniability: ads showing vibrators used on the model’s shoulders or showing her lovingly caressing her cheekbone with it, a spare electric toothbrush brush stored in the bedside table for some reason, etc., and so why not the out-of-bearing washer that she really needs to get Bill to fix one of these days? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/100 "2025-08-14T02:07:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Where do you get a washing machine that has a suction cup option? 🤔 You’ve obviously never been to Scranton. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-really-get-off-from-sitting-on-washing-machines/1021521/101 "2025-08-14T11:02:58Z")
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